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pugg666 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2003, 12:14:16 PM »

Martin XPB2M-1R Mars

Fridaddy · « **Reply #2 on:** December 16, 2003, 09:03:35 PM »

Nope, note the cuniform tail on the above pic compared to this one...

http://www.martinmars.com/

This is a Martin PBM
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/martin_pbm5a.htm

Widewing · « **Reply #3 on:** December 16, 2003, 10:48:20 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Fridaddy
Nope, note the cuniform tail on the above pic compared to this one...

http://www.martinmars.com/

This is a Martin PBM
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/martin_pbm5a.htm

Pugg666 is correct. Only the prototype had twin tails, production aircraft didn't.

My regards,

Widewing

Munkii · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2003, 01:59:07 AM »

This is a Martin PBM

You're short 2 engines there.

MiloMorai · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2003, 05:00:25 AM »

If you want to see a real Martin Mars go to Vancouver Island. There are 2 stationed on Sproat Lake outside Port Alberni.

http://www.highwaylodge.com/bomber.htm

How the mars were acquired

http://www.jimmyhoward.com/Martin-Mars-history.shtml

pugg666 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2003, 09:10:49 AM »

Maybe I should have wrote it like this...

Martin XPB2M-1R Mars

brady · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2003, 11:08:13 AM »

Mars, it is:)

I wish I knew they were up their I have been to Vancover Island many times, would of loved to of seen them.