Apr 19, 2006, 12:36 PM
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40 years ago New Hampshire Skydiving
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Are there any old timers out there who ever jumped in New Hampshire about 40 years ago?
I was looking through some old family photos and my Dad used to own an airport there. The sign in the photo says, "Skydiving" and there is a photo of a reserve ride taking place.
The jump pilot was named George Turner. Anyone know anything about this DZ?
Apr 19, 2006, 1:33 PM
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At that time there was a club in Rochester NH which jumped at a nearby airport in Sanford Maine. I jumped there with a bunch of guys whose names escape me now. The club president was a guy by the name of Charlie Dame. He was a cop in Rochester NH and at the time was probably in his mid 40's. He was also an Area Safety Officer for the PCA (Parachute Club of America).
Apr 20, 2006, 5:14 AM
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Hmm, do you know where the airport was? The pilot's name doesn't ring a bell. Some possibilities: -Pepperell, MA, less than one mile from the NH border, run in earliest days by a guy named Ralph Wright, who later ran a DZ at: -New London, NH -Rochester, as noted. Much later run by Buddy Keefe and with a landing area on a nearby field in NH; Charlie Dame is immortalized in the Poynter rigging manual (and, I think, in other Poynter books), in a photo of a barnstorming jump; -Lake Winnepesaukee area; couple of different DZs at different times in Moultonboro and environs; -Berlin. DZ in the 60s, maybe into the seventies. -North Conway airport, maybe in the seventies; That about exhausts my recall; now ask me about Massachusetts
Apr 21, 2006, 5:51 AM
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The hunt continues; in the process, some helpful folks in New Hampshire have pointed me to: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm which is a really cool national webside of abandoned or underused airports. (pm sent to GravityGirl)
