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Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Video: Martin Mars Flying Boat "Hawaii Mars" JRM-1 Christening 1945

3 comments:

TOF said...

One of my wife's uncles rode one of those from Pearl Habor to Guam after Guam was secured (sorta). He was a civilian contractor doing reconstruction work.

Anonymous said...

I saw on of them flying over Southern California last year. They are used as water bombers for firefighting these days.

Big, and looked like it was moving so slow it would fall out of the sky.

Minicapt said...

Hawaii Mars is still in service:
http://www.coulsongroup.com/aviation_tankers.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1y6Tnczjuw

Cheers