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The Martin JRM Mars is a large, four-engined cargo transport flying boat designed and built by the Martin Company for the United States Navy during World War II. It was the largest Allied flying boat to enter production, although only seven were built.
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The Glenn L. Martin Company, founded in 1912, produced the largest Allied flying boat of the war when it introduced their "JRM Mars" model line - a series born as a further evolution of the "PBM Mariner" which was itself introduced in 1939.
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The Martin Mars was originally intended to be a maritime bomber for use in the Pacific War, Rollins said. The idea was to build a vessel that could patrol for enemy vessels and submarines by.
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The Martin Mars was the largest water bomber in the world until 2006, operating for decades as a pair. During an aerial fire operation, a collective total of 14,400 USG (55,000 liters) of water would drop as an initial attack strategy to tame a forest fire. Our Humble Opinion
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The massive Martin Mars water bomber was built as a transport plane for the U.S. Navy in 1946 and is one of the largest fixed-wing water bombers in the world, with a capacity of more than.
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The Martin Mars has four engines and has the biggest water capacity of any water bomber in the world. It can hold up to almost 30,000 litres of water. However, because of its size and capacity, it is expensive to maintain and run so it was replaced with smaller water bombers with lower capacity but that are less expensive to maintain.
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin CNN — For the biggest flying water bomber in the world, this is the end. That's what Wayne Coulson, owner of a seven-decade-old flying boat called Hawaii Mars, said Monday.
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Airframe Notes: Converted to water bomber for firefighting. Inspection Status: Sold with fresh annual inspection. Engine 1 Time 23,497.8 SNEW. Engine 1 TBO 3,500. Compare. Redondo Beach, California. Phone: +1 951-366-7006. View Details. The Martin JRM Mars was conceived in 1941 as a patrol bomber, intended to scale up the already existing.
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The Martin Mars water bomber, Hawaii Mars II, is shown in its sale listing. (Coulson Flying Tankers/András Mihalik) One of the most famous planes in B.C.'s history, a Martin Mars water.
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Articles Nov 17, 2018 Nikola Budanovic, Guest Author The Martin JRM Mars was conceived in 1941 as a patrol bomber, intended to scale up the already existing Martin PBM Mariner. The prototype, designated as XPB2M-1R, went into test phase in November 1941 and first flew in June 1942.
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On 23 August 1938, the United States Navy placed an order with the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company for one XPB2M‑1 patrol bomber. This prototype, BuNo1520, was launched into Dark Head Creek at Martin's factory in Middle River, near Baltimore, Maryland, on 5 November 1941.
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00:06:47 The last air-worthy Martin Mars water bomber is headed to the B.C. Aviation Museum in Sidney. The Hawaii Mars, owned by Port Alberni-based Coulson Groups of Companies, hasn't been.
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The Martin Mars, a huge propeller powered seaplane the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet was decades ahead of its time.
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The Martin Mars JRM-1 towers above visitors as they approach the giant seaplane in a motor launch. The four-engine seaplane—it has no landing gear—is 44 feet, 7 inches tall. It's 120 feet, 3 inches long; and it has a wingspan of 200 feet—approximately that of a Boeing 747. Powered by four 2,500-horsepower Wright R3350 radial engines, the Mars has a maximum gross weight of 145,000 pounds.
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COULSON GROUP OF COMPANIES Expand The Martin Mars water bomber sits idle on the shores of Sproat Lake, raising questions about why the massive aircraft isn't being used to fight the flames.
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A Martin Mars Water Bomber. Submitted Just five of the aircraft were built by manufacturer Martin — just two of which remain today, the Hawaii Mars and the Philippine Mars, both owned.
