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Category Archives: New Hampshire Aviation
New Hampshire’s Aviation Museum: A Bridge Between Past and Present
A building seemingly tucked away at the edge of the Manchester-Boston Airport runway holds many keys to New Hampshire’s aviation past, and I suspect also has great significance for its future. I had the wonderful opportunity to tour there today, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Military of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Aviation, Structures, Travel
Tagged air field, Air Force, airbase, airplane, architecture, art deco, artifacts, aviation, Grenier, history, museum, NH, squadron, WASP
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New Hampshire’s First Female Aviator, Well-Known Photographer and Philanthropist: Bernice Blake Perry (1905-1996)
Bernice Gertrude Blake was born in Manchester, New Hampshire on 2 March 1905, one of four children born to Edward C. & Gertrude (Hurd) Blake. Her father was an English-Canadian immigrant who had founded Blake’s Creamery, originally as a milk … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, New Hampshire Aviation, New Hampshire Women
Tagged aviator, Bernice Blake, Bernice Perry, Blakes Creamery, charter member, first, license, Lyndeborough, Manchester, Milford, music, ninety-nines, philanthropist, philanthropy, photo, photographer, photography, pilot, scholarship, Wilton, Winthrop
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Concord New Hampshire Educator & Astronaut, Sharon Christa (Corrigan) McAuliffe (1948-1986)
January 28, 2011 will mark the 25th anniversary of a tragedy–the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
That event took the life of… Continue reading
Posted in Irish in New Hampshire, New Hampshire Aviation, New Hampshire Women
Tagged astronaut, aviation, Challenger, Christa, education, McAuliffe, shuttle, space, teacher
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New Hampshire Missing Places: Grenier Field (or Grenier Air Base)
Back in the 1940s and 1950s residents would frequently hear airplanes and jets roar across the skies of southern New … Continue reading
Posted in Military of New Hampshire, N.H. Missing Places, New Hampshire Aviation
Tagged air base, airplane, aviation, base, Field, fliers, flight, Grenier, pilot
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