Good to see them saved. Much better than getting recycled. At some point you have to say enough is enough. When you look at the age of the airframes and the horrendous cost of the engines, it isn't viable to keep them flying. Everything is 70-80 years old.
800 thousand people live on Vancouver Island. 700 hundred thousand of them are mostly between Nanaimo and Victoria. It’s great that they’ll all be able to say a final goodbye on it’s flyover.
Phillipines Mars is not going to phoenix, it is going to the Tucson at the Pima Air&Space museum, adjacent the world's biggest aircraft boneyard, run by the USAF. I look forward to visiting both planes as I live in Vic and have a 2nd home in Tucson.
@@Dbodell8000auctally they weren't . The Philippines mars was suppose to be donated to a mesuem in Florida in like 2012 or 2016 that's why it's in u.s navy liverly. However the plan to donate it failed to it sat ever since
No it's being donated to a mesuem that will maintain it in a displayable condition. Before the test flights before the final flight it hadn't flown since 2016 due to the fact that it's very expensive to operate even with government support
Seeing that these planes were so effective at fighting fires why don't they build new ones with a modern twist? Especially in theses times where we could really benefit from them. These other smaller ones almost seam kind of useless.
The smaller ones do not require massive/long lakes to fill up in. By the time a Martin Mars has dumped and refilled the little tractor teams will have moved 2,3,4 or 5 times more water at a much lower cost. Also, the Mars are so inaccurate they have to pull front line crews from the fire while they are in operation. The Mars also had a tendency to advance the fire by spreading sparks from the large cushion of air that comes with the large volume of water it dumped.
Good to see them saved. Much better than getting recycled. At some point you have to say enough is enough. When you look at the age of the airframes and the horrendous cost of the engines, it isn't viable to keep them flying. Everything is 70-80 years old.
Absolutely and the aircraft today is more better
800 thousand people live on Vancouver Island. 700 hundred thousand of them are mostly between Nanaimo and Victoria. It’s great that they’ll all be able to say a final goodbye on it’s flyover.
Preservation is a beautiful thing!
Today is the day...
Phillipines Mars is not going to phoenix, it is going to the Tucson at the Pima Air&Space museum, adjacent the world's biggest aircraft boneyard, run by the USAF. I look forward to visiting both planes as I live in Vic and have a 2nd home in Tucson.
Well done VI
My question now is how are they going to get Phillipine Mars to Arizona?
Fly it
How come they never seem to fly the Phillipine Mars always the Hawaii?
Because they were taking parts from Phillipine to keep Hawaii flying.
@@mcnut1 Gotcha👍
@@Dbodell8000auctally they weren't . The Philippines mars was suppose to be donated to a mesuem in Florida in like 2012 or 2016 that's why it's in u.s navy liverly. However the plan to donate it failed to it sat ever since
You'll be seeing more of the Phillipine Mars in the coming weeks as it is being prepared for its flight south.
@@TheScoopOnPortAlberni-bc9bt That is excellent news. Thank you for the work you do.
Now it will sit outside in the Victoria weather and rot?
You know not of what you speak.
@@clivekitchener1625 You did see that was a question, right?
No it's being donated to a mesuem that will maintain it in a displayable condition. Before the test flights before the final flight it hadn't flown since 2016 due to the fact that it's very expensive to operate even with government support
Seeing that these planes were so effective at fighting fires why don't they build new ones with a modern twist? Especially in theses times where we could really benefit from them. These other smaller ones almost seam kind of useless.
The smaller ones do not require massive/long lakes to fill up in. By the time a Martin Mars has dumped and refilled the little tractor teams will have moved 2,3,4 or 5 times more water at a much lower cost. Also, the Mars are so inaccurate they have to pull front line crews from the fire while they are in operation. The Mars also had a tendency to advance the fire by spreading sparks from the large cushion of air that comes with the large volume of water it dumped.
CL-415s tend to fight fire in squads. Also keep in mind water bombers typically focus on containing the fires, not putting them out directly.
Also not to mention that there where only 7 built with 2 in existence to spare parts are getting harder to come by
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Tourist dollars for the South Island
SHAME ON OUR BC GOVERNMENT THAT COULNT FIND THE CASH TO SUPPORT IT VERY SAD
if you only knew the politics behind of chartering this aircraft...
I'll leave that laundry for another day though.....
It's a aircraft from WW2, it's nearly impossible to find spares for this aircraft anymore
@@pythons206 thats why they manufacture every part now.