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I notice the sailors are all wearing life preservers. In those days, people didn't wear life preservers unless they thought there was a serious chance that they might need them. Not too flattering for the Martin Company.
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Those days dollar was covered by gold. Today dollar is not worth the paper it's printed on.
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I work in Elsinore California, the Martin Mars flies over all the time when the fires are "in season" in SoCal. It births at Lake Elsinore...
Wonderful to hear those engines
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As a child living on Middle River, MD I would see the Mars planes land and take off at the Glenn L Martin facility there. The HUGE aircraft would be serviced there. My father was one of the designers.
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Those were the days when i cost $100 to fill her up lol
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very interesting.
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the guys who build that plane was that the story based appon the movie Aviator
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T'was the ubiquitization of airports that doomed the flying boats.
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Dewey Eldred 'Flyer's Dream' light seaplaneby Bomberguy33,434 views- 1:43
Mars Flying Boatsby Bomberguy146,386 views
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Crashing planes for fun and profitby Bomberguy63,195 views
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Saro Princess fly-byby Bomberguy43,745 views
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Flying Boat Water Bomber Martin Marsby BoatMan45277,136 views
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Mighty Martin Mars Great show and drop. Coulsons Open Houseby MrBeresford39,987 views
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Lincoln Plane Crashby scannerboy02220,619 views
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Martin Mars water bomber - engine startby TooTallDean71,419 views
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Martin Mars Flying Boat "Hawaii Mars" JRM-1 Christening 1945by airboyd6,698 views
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Martin Mars Low Drops And Tight Turns 2010by CoulsonGroup6,598 views
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Martin Mars Internal Inspection (Part 1)by marcher479,959 views
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Movietone News - 1940sby miscvids81862,539 views
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Call To Arms - World War II Newsreelby lew82211,591 views
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Universal Newsreel WWIIby ethankendrick6,760 views
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Martin Mars waterbomber first visit to Vancouver Harbourby AirlineTVdotnet17,735 views
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Martin YP6M SeaMasterby jaglavaksoldier8,915 views
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Save the Mars!by MDAviation18,805 views
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Martin Mars Fights Fire at Shasta Lakeby imnews23,843 views
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Martin Mars takes off from Shasta Lakeby cal1quake6,237 views
The Martin Mars now a water bomber stationed in Port Alberni, BC can be regularly seen in the summer fighting forest fires. It made a recent trip to LA to help fight fires there as well.
GREEROPS 3 years ago 5
No, Howard Hughes ("The Aviator") built the Hughes Hercules, aka "Spruce Goose", which was a completely different airplane.
parafan 3 years ago 2