Courtesy National Air & Space Museum

The National Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C. is digitizing its old posters and other aviation pariphernalia. It is really, really cool. I did a quickie search on “Hampshire” and found, among other things, this poster for long-defunct aviation service, probably from the 1930s judging from what I think is a Ford Tri-Motor on the poster. Other stuff I found includes the old civil-aviation insignia for New Hampshire and a backup of the Explorer 12 satellite that UNH worked on.

This gives me an opportunity to plug the New Hampshire Aviation Historical Museum, located on the east side of the main runway at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, in the tiny building that was the airport’s very first control tower. (The building alone is worth the visit.) It’s free, and open Friday and Saturday, 10 to 4, and Sunday, 1 to 4.

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