Yeah bro agreed ! We have a catalina here in NZ... WW2 survivor , still in operation . You can pay to have a flight with minimum amount of people... I haven't yet but it's on the bucket list ! But this one is setup on its wheels is only downside .
I used to vacation with my family in B.C. when I was a boy. When we would visit friends on Sproat Lake, they would take me to see these two magnificent airplanes. Back then we were able to get right up to the hull while it floated there in the water. I consider myself lucky to have been able to touch both Mars Flying Boats. This video brought back a lot of fond memories for me.
That must have been a great experience to get to get up close to these impressive flying boats! Thanks for sharing your experience, I'm glad this video was able to help bring back some good memories.
I remember some time ago there was a fire in Copper Canyon west of Chemanius BC. They had the two of them operating at the same time. They would make their dump and head out into Stuart Channel off Crofton and Chemanius to reload and do it all over again! Very impressive to watch and I'm glad you had the opportunity to see one yourself.
In a land-based aircraft of this age/type it would be doing engine run-ups for a while, that’s what this was. Getting her warmed up for the call to go. Great video!
Ya, it was interesting to see. Every mouthing they would start her up and "taxi" around the lake for 10-20 minutes so the aircraft would be ready to go if they got the call.
I live an hours drive from the base where these planes were kept. Too bad they have just been retired. Have seen them fly by on their way to various fires. Very impressive and powerful aircraft. This one (the Hawaii Mars, twin to Martin) I believe was the backup.
The Marianas Mars crashed near Northwest Bay, British Columbia, on 23 June 1961 during firefighting operations; all four crew members were lost. Just over a year later, on 12 October 1962 while parked onshore at the Victoria airport, the Caroline Mars was damaged beyond repair by Typhoon Freda when she was blown 200 yards, breaking her back.[8] The Hawaii Mars and Philippine Mars had their conversion into water bombers advanced and entered service in 1963.[3] They appeared at local airshows, demonstrating their water-dropping ability. Flying Tankers Inc. flew the water bombers to hot spots around the province when a need developed, such as in August 2003, when a large forest fire threatened the outskirts of Kelowna, British Columbia.
Having piloted three of the USAF 707 variants, and they're not small aircraft, I cannot imagine even having to go through the pre-flight checklist, let alone configuring for takeoff, and coaxing this beautiful machine into the air. Cheers to the flight crew manning this behemoth!
55 years ago, my family would camp at the Sproat Lake park each summer. I used to love watching these behemoths loading and leaving from the lake...there were three or more at that time I believe.
+Ken McKim That must have been quite the impressive sight to see all three on the lake. I was so happy to get to see this classic a few summers back. Thanks for watching!
Back in 1998 there were severe fires around Salmon Arm BC, they used the Phillipine and Hawaii Mars fighting them. Amazing to say the least! We were eventually evacuated, I remember seeing the planes at rest down on the Shuswap lake as we left, I'll never forget that.
@@TheHDAviation Yes, as a young aviation enthusiast it was amazing. We were between the mountain and the lake, it would fly almost directly over our house for a while there. Awesome channel by the way, you get such great shots of so many interesting aircraft! Seems like Nelson is the place to be.
Мне очень нравятся гидро-самолеты! За свою красоту и неприхотливость! Они могут приземлиться где угодно! Для малой авиации это очень большое преимущество!
WOW I'm speechless, Fantastic video of this amazing Aircraft, I would love to see the engines start, taxi & takeoff in person. I only saw this Martin one time at Lake Elsinore, California but I didn't get to see her start up and fly. Thanks for sharing this video of this very rare Aircraft.
Ed Whisenant Thanks so much! The Martin Mars is definitely one of the most impressive aircraft I've ever seen in person. I wish I would have captured the takeoff footage but I managed to turn off the recording instead of start it.
what a sound just amazing i take it as a ringtone just fantastic and the plane just WOW. hope spot something like it one. thanks for sharing this great view
Wow, very beautiful video! Really nice catch! Amazing plane, and one of the most beautifullest runways I've ever seen! Great work, very big like from me! :)
Probably not as much oil as to cause that. And, of course, exhaust valves, they may have a way to keep the exhaust valves open like a decompression lever like what some motorcycles use. Anyway a radial engine doesn't have oil sitting in the crank case like a car engine so you can't really think about the bottom cylinders the same as you would a Chevy turned upside down. They are more like a 2-stroke engine when it comes to lubrication, the oil is injected at point and much or all of it is burned over time. I have a 2 stroke outboard motor on my boat, with oil injection, and it makes a lot of smoke when I start it but does not hydrolock. It is, though, always really smoky when I cold start it. Really smoky. Sometimes even when it's warm. But it gets better once it's running. Under power there is no smoke. Also when I have to idle through a "no wake zone" it doesn't smoke. But when I have to start up again oh boy. That's one way to get the kids to stop fishing and get out of the way on the fueling or loading dock.
***** ...which is not quite the same thing! I guess to park this beast you set the throttles onto tickover and juggle with the pitch controls to get to where the Bowman can reach the buoy with his boathook.
It has variable pitch props, right? Set two for forward thrust and two for reverse and it shouldn't move too much if facing the wind. The question I have though is whether there's a water rudder or not.
Yep, and can you hear the sputtering of the small engine powered generator making electric power to run the lights, instruments, oil and fuel pumps before the big radials fire up?
The brakes don't work well when wet. So once one engine fires up, you're on the move. In order to control got to get the engines up and running as quickly as possible to maintain control.
@@davem5333 That's what I was thinking but then later on in the video we see it reverse so it has variable-pitch propellors. Why did they not just have the blades set in the mid position so that it would not move?
Interesting comments made , The last one made was in the 1950's I believe. They have enough spares to build more entire planes(minus the water tanks).,Apparently there are entire fuselage carefully wrapped & preserved by the military ., left over from when the plane was decommissioned by them. Yet we let vast tracks of land burn in Canada because the government doesn't want to operate something this old ..As for reliability ,the video speaks for itself .
Saw it beside one of its sisters in a lake on Vancouver island many years ago, we canoed out to them, there is no description for how large this flying boat is, really need to see it up close to appreciate how big it actually is. Great video thanks
This thing carries 7,200 gallons of water or fire retardant from what I read. There are some that carry more water; like the DC-10 (which carries 12,000 gallons from what I read) , but the beauty of this aircraft is that it can re-load without stopping. The DC-10 has to actually land on a runway and then get filled by big firehoses. So, I wonder what total gallons/day would look like; this might actually.
Yeah, they use all types of aircraft out here in California. We just moved out here this summer, and coming from the midwest you don't realize what a huge effort forest firefighting is. We saw some of this same work when we lived in North Idaho, but that area is relatively sparsely populated compared to LA.
Yeah California just rents / hires most of their firefighting planes every year. CA is not good at planning in advance. There was some talk in state legislature last year (2016) of buying some new water tankers but I don't know if it passed or not.
Used to paddle around these on our inner tubes back in the 50's. Also saw the one that got destroyed by a storm at Pat Bay Airport (Victoria) while taking a Sunday drive with the family. Always wondered why they didn't re-power with turbines like on Gooses and Beavers.
Flew as a passenger in 1968 on one of these from St. Croix to St. Thomas U S Virgin Islands with Capt Blair. It was mind boggling when this "Goose" rose from the water.
The Hughes H-4 Hercules registration NX37602, is the largest flying boat ever built and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history. It survives in good condition at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, USA. The H-4 Hercules has a wingspan of 320 feet which is longer even than the Russian Antonov AN-225 land based cargo plane which has a wingspan of 290 feet. The Martin Mars only has a wingspan of 200 feet. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Giant_planes_comparison.svg
my Mother and I flew back to Oakland from Honolulu in 1952 when I was 10 months old. Long flight, but faster than the ship my Dad took. The Martin Mars. It could have been the same plane
One of the most incredible aircraft ever built.
Yeah bro agreed ! We have a catalina here in NZ... WW2 survivor , still in operation . You can pay to have a flight with minimum amount of people... I haven't yet but it's on the bucket list ! But this one is setup on its wheels is only downside .
Sprout Lake , Port Albernie BC Canada . Fantastic aircraft .
How could anyone not love aviation after seeing that beautiful flying boat?
I used to vacation with my family in B.C. when I was a boy. When we would visit friends on Sproat Lake, they would take me to see these two magnificent airplanes. Back then we were able to get right up to the hull while it floated there in the water.
I consider myself lucky to have been able to touch both Mars Flying Boats. This video brought back a lot of fond memories for me.
That must have been a great experience to get to get up close to these impressive flying boats! Thanks for sharing your experience, I'm glad this video was able to help bring back some good memories.
I remember some time ago there was a fire in Copper Canyon west of Chemanius BC. They had the two of them operating at the same time. They would make their dump and head out into Stuart Channel off Crofton and Chemanius to reload and do it all over again! Very impressive to watch and I'm glad you had the opportunity to see one yourself.
In a land-based aircraft of this age/type it would be doing engine run-ups for a while, that’s what this was. Getting her warmed up for the call to go. Great video!
Ya, it was interesting to see. Every mouthing they would start her up and "taxi" around the lake for 10-20 minutes so the aircraft would be ready to go if they got the call.
I live an hours drive from the base where these planes were kept. Too bad they have just been retired. Have seen them fly by on their way to various fires. Very impressive and powerful aircraft. This one (the Hawaii Mars, twin to Martin) I believe was the backup.
aww really ? that's a shame
Where is it!! Location??
@@samarpankoirala North America
Their are three Mars Bombers. The 3rd is in the deep water resting for renewal??? Correct me.
The Marianas Mars crashed near Northwest Bay, British Columbia, on 23 June 1961 during firefighting operations; all four crew members were lost. Just over a year later, on 12 October 1962 while parked onshore at the Victoria airport, the Caroline Mars was damaged beyond repair by Typhoon Freda when she was blown 200 yards, breaking her back.[8] The Hawaii Mars and Philippine Mars had their conversion into water bombers advanced and entered service in 1963.[3] They appeared at local airshows, demonstrating their water-dropping ability. Flying Tankers Inc. flew the water bombers to hot spots around the province when a need developed, such as in August 2003, when a large forest fire threatened the outskirts of Kelowna, British Columbia.
Holy shit!! What a bad ass plane!!
*am I the only one who was waiting for it to take off*
Nope!
Fantastic!
water planes are so majestic.
They really are, I'd love to have a flight in one some day. Thanks for watching!
Having piloted three of the USAF 707 variants, and they're not small aircraft, I cannot imagine even having to go through the pre-flight checklist, let alone configuring for takeoff, and coaxing this beautiful machine into the air. Cheers to the flight crew manning this behemoth!
This had the exact sound that was in my head before I even played the video! This was so awesome to see, I just wish it was in person. Great video!!
i have loved these planes since a little boy in the 70's
Wow!! I have never seen something like that before! Great job on capturing this giant!
Gota love the sound of a radial engine. Pure horse power.
Nothing beats that sound!
55 years ago, my family would camp at the Sproat Lake park each summer. I used to love watching these behemoths loading and leaving from the lake...there were three or more at that time I believe.
+Ken McKim That must have been quite the impressive sight to see all three on the lake. I was so happy to get to see this classic a few summers back. Thanks for watching!
very very tremendous.
The original "giants of the skies": flying boats! We've come along way from those, but still stunning to see and hear them :) liked!
Ya, it really is amazing how far we've come from these old giants. Thanks for watching!
Wow, what an amazing airplane. Love the sound!
Oh, they have reversible props. You learn something new everyday.
Yes.
They need to be able to slow down, back up and turn side to side to pick up the mooring in windy conditions.
I want one for christmas!!!
What an awesome piece of machinery! Great video
Thanks for watching!
Stunning aircraft and amazing sounds. Thank you for posting this😊.
Thanks very much for watching, glad you enjoyed the video!
Awesome, would love to see that beast take off.
Nice video!
Thanks a lot!
We see these water bombers all the time in the summer months. Massive machines. Only a few left.
My buddy Mario gave me a tour of the Mars on Sproat Lake years , it is a very BIG airplane.
Those are Wright -3350 double row 18 cylindr powerplants
That's really cool, must have been interesting getting a tour through this beast!
Goose bumps. What an amazing aircraft.
+Alf Torp The Martin Mars is amazing indeed, it was really cool to see this classic.
Goose bumps isn't an aircraft its a children's horror novel, get your facts straight.
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Fantastic video! 💚🇵🇹❤️
Thanks so much!
TheHDAviation You are welcome!
beautiful piece of machinery
I know this is going to sound strange but my mind convinced me that I could smell that plum of smoke at 1:27
Back in 1998 there were severe fires around Salmon Arm BC, they used the Phillipine and Hawaii Mars fighting them. Amazing to say the least!
We were eventually evacuated, I remember seeing the planes at rest down on the Shuswap lake as we left, I'll never forget that.
Nice, that must have been an impressive sight seeing them both in action. Sad they aren't flying these days.
@@TheHDAviation Yes, as a young aviation enthusiast it was amazing. We were between the mountain and the lake, it would fly almost directly over our house for a while there.
Awesome channel by the way, you get such great shots of so many interesting aircraft! Seems like Nelson is the place to be.
Мне очень нравятся гидро-самолеты! За свою красоту и неприхотливость! Они могут приземлиться где угодно! Для малой авиации это очень большое преимущество!
God, I just love the sound of big round engines!
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WOW I'm speechless, Fantastic video of this amazing Aircraft, I would love to see the engines start, taxi & takeoff in person. I only saw this Martin one time at Lake Elsinore, California but I didn't get to see her start up and fly.
Thanks for sharing this video of this very rare Aircraft.
Ed Whisenant Thanks so much! The Martin Mars is definitely one of the most impressive aircraft I've ever seen in person. I wish I would have captured the takeoff footage but I managed to turn off the recording instead of start it.
Cool, an observation hatch right in the nose !
We truly need 2 have many more of these 2 fight fires!!!!
Janice Earley That would be nice, it would be interesting to see something the same size with today's technology.
Why does this seem familliar and relaxing?
That is one absolute thing of beauty! Too bad it can't help us today with our fires. We miss you Hawaii Mars.
Awww.. this flight is unwilling to leave the water 🤗🤗🤗😀😀😀
Those big radial engines always seem to be saying "OK, I'll start, but I'm going to make a big fuss about it".
Haha so true, like trying to wake up a giant beast that is in a deep sleep :-)
Jack Frost And leak oil while I'm at it.
Presumably. But I suspect that the water quality in Kootenay Lake is very closely guarded.
+Tony Sweet Probably do a little bit but I don't imagine it'd be much.
+Tony Sweet When?
Great to see this classic aircraft still in service. Very nice video mate.
Yes! Saw this climbing out (slowly...) around 12 mile last week. Amazing aircraft.
Fantastic video😎
Thanks a lot!
What an Amaaaazing Machine, its almost impossible to believe it does what it does. I imagine it carries alot more than 12,000 gls....
I love the sound of a big radial engine running. Kind of equivalent to a V anything in a car.
Nice video my friend!
Great catch! Just massive. I work with a guy that used to work on it.
Who is stupid enough to press thumbs down on this awesome video?
possibly some ecoterrorist annoyed by the smoke.
L188dude Probably spot on!
+Ulf Holmström (Masonix) possibly someone who expected the aircraft to take off in this video and therefore was disappointed.
+JelleNetherlands Everyone loves a ring of oil around their boat, dock, jetski.
+Ulf Holmström (Masonix) George Noori lol
This plane reminds me of 'Talespin Cartoon Series' from my Childhood.
Nice video my friend
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Amazing water giant. Looks like it's well maintained. Liked.
what a sound just amazing i take it as a ringtone just fantastic and the plane just WOW. hope spot something like it one. thanks for sharing this great view
Ohhhhh man what an impressive bird! That thing could sure double as a houseboat as well haha.
If only the Wright Brothers and the others pioneers could have seen this beauty…………
Un gran pájaro con su "panza" llena de agua. Muchas gracias.
😳 wow amazing bird, Thank you for you Channel !!!!! Is awesome 👍👍👍👍👍 i ❤️ your channel!!!
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed the video!
Good job fair
Nice boat. Does it fly?
What an incredible sight to see
Wow, very beautiful video! Really nice catch! Amazing plane, and one of the most beautifullest runways I've ever seen! Great work, very big like from me! :)
What a catch mate!!!
Great video from a very nice plane!!!
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Radials gather oil in the bottom cylinders. Always blow blue smoke on start up as the lower cylinders clear the oil.
How do the pistons not hydrolock if there is oil collecting in the cylinders?
Probably not as much oil as to cause that. And, of course, exhaust valves, they may have a way to keep the exhaust valves open like a decompression lever like what some motorcycles use. Anyway a radial engine doesn't have oil sitting in the crank case like a car engine so you can't really think about the bottom cylinders the same as you would a Chevy turned upside down. They are more like a 2-stroke engine when it comes to lubrication, the oil is injected at point and much or all of it is burned over time.
I have a 2 stroke outboard motor on my boat, with oil injection, and it makes a lot of smoke when I start it but does not hydrolock. It is, though, always really smoky when I cold start it. Really smoky. Sometimes even when it's warm. But it gets better once it's running. Under power there is no smoke. Also when I have to idle through a "no wake zone" it doesn't smoke. But when I have to start up again oh boy. That's one way to get the kids to stop fishing and get out of the way on the fueling or loading dock.
ya makes sense ... just never thought about it ., In 2000 I watched this plane take off from Sproat Lake provincial Park.
That thing is a monster!
No chocks or brakes on this beastie - once 1 engine fires up, you gotta go!
***** Brakes - on a boat!!??
***** ...which is not quite the same thing! I guess to park this beast you set the throttles onto tickover and juggle with the pitch controls to get to where the Bowman can reach the buoy with his boathook.
It has variable pitch props, right? Set two for forward thrust and two for reverse and it shouldn't move too much if facing the wind. The question I have though is whether there's a water rudder or not.
Seaplanes are unique beasts....whole new set of run up and shut down procedures...
really amazing, thx for posting
Thanks for watching!
Awesome video, what a beauty. Thanks for posting!!!
Thanks for watching!
🤔 that’s a rather large flying boat. Very nice.
Ya, this thing was massive. One impressive machine!
Thats one great plane, well done mate!
+SydneyAirportCapturer HL It was definitely impressive to see. Thanks!
Whoa this thing is huge! That is a very lucky catch i guess! Awesome!
Amazing how quickly she gets going after the first engine splutters into life
Yep, and can you hear the sputtering of the small engine powered generator making electric power to run the lights, instruments, oil and fuel pumps before the big radials fire up?
The brakes don't work well when wet. So once one engine fires up, you're on the move. In order to control got to get the engines up and running as quickly as possible to maintain control.
@@davem5333 That's what I was thinking but then later on in the video we see it reverse so it has variable-pitch propellors. Why did they not just have the blades set in the mid position so that it would not move?
Whoa that thing is massive! Awesome catch!!
Interesting comments made , The last one made was in the 1950's I believe. They have enough spares to build more entire planes(minus the water tanks).,Apparently there are entire fuselage carefully wrapped & preserved by the military ., left over from when the plane was decommissioned by them. Yet we let vast tracks of land burn in Canada because the government doesn't want to operate something this old ..As for reliability ,the video speaks for itself .
Saw it beside one of its sisters in a lake on Vancouver island many years ago, we canoed out to them, there is no description for how large this flying boat is, really need to see it up close to appreciate how big it actually is. Great video thanks
That's so true, you can't tell its massive size from the video, but up close it is truly impressive! Thanks very much for watching.
What a beautiful plane, was this shot in Vancouver Harbour Airport? If not where?
I fucking love aircrafts.
I see these all the time at my cabin in sprout lake
This thing carries 7,200 gallons of water or fire retardant from what I read. There are some that carry more water; like the DC-10 (which carries 12,000 gallons from what I read) , but the beauty of this aircraft is that it can re-load without stopping. The DC-10 has to actually land on a runway and then get filled by big firehoses. So, I wonder what total gallons/day would look like; this might actually.
...DC-10.....pretty handy if there are no lakes or rivers around.....
Yeah, they use all types of aircraft out here in California. We just moved out here this summer, and coming from the midwest you don't realize what a huge effort forest firefighting is. We saw some of this same work when we lived in North Idaho, but that area is relatively sparsely populated compared to LA.
CL 415 is the most performance water bomber in the world .
Jonathan Lackman hate to break this to yeah, but this plane is based out of ab Canada.
Yeah California just rents / hires most of their firefighting planes every year. CA is not good at planning in advance. There was some talk in state legislature last year (2016) of buying some new water tankers but I don't know if it passed or not.
The red color of this aircraft shines in the trees' green.
you kill much more time. l think it is take off
Beautiful airplane!
awesome catch my firend,huge plane :)
After the guy at the nose hooked the mooring line, He tossed the boat hook into the water?
Very nice plane!
Used to paddle around these on our inner tubes back in the 50's. Also saw the one that got destroyed by a storm at Pat Bay Airport (Victoria) while taking a Sunday drive with the family. Always wondered why they didn't re-power with turbines like on Gooses and Beavers.
+johnabuick That's a good question, it definitely would have been cool to see a Martin Mars with turbine engines!
Aw, that's too bad, mate! Well, at least you tried. I can imagine it was amazing!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Simply a beautiful plane!!
Too bad this ist the last Martin Mars.
Does anyone know what happened to the other Mars?
I can see the props varying in speed. Is he steering on thrust alone?
Wow what a giant seaplane !! awesome catch :o must be awesome to see it takingoff!
Super like!
Looks nice! Great catch :) very cool :) liked!
Thanks for watching :-)
Flew as a passenger in 1968 on one of these from St. Croix to St. Thomas U S Virgin Islands with Capt Blair. It was mind boggling when this "Goose" rose from the water.
Nice, that must have been an amazing experience!
The airline "Antilles Air Boats" at that time were also flying twin engine DeHaviland sea planes
beautiful to watch
This aircraft was so impressive to see in person, it truly is massive.
WOW!!!! Grat Video!!!
Thanks!
The Hughes H-4 Hercules registration NX37602, is the largest flying boat ever built and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history. It survives in good condition at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, USA. The H-4 Hercules has a wingspan of 320 feet which is longer even than the Russian Antonov AN-225 land based cargo plane which has a wingspan of 290 feet. The Martin Mars only has a wingspan of 200 feet. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Giant_planes_comparison.svg
Excellent video.,
Thanks!
That would make a awesome house boatplane
my Mother and I flew back to Oakland from Honolulu in 1952 when I was 10 months old. Long flight, but faster than the ship my Dad took. The Martin Mars. It could have been the same plane
Nice video !Nice channel .Subscribed
Thanks for watching!
I wonder if I can get more than 1 mil views if I start up my old '99 Camry and drive it around the block?
i like how the mans stood at the front like a bonnet ornament. "bill, what should i do?"
bill:"you seen the titanic?.... enjoy ;)"
Congratulations, you got a link to this video on the flightaware homepage :)
@1.09 Notice the 223 BBC skull & bones on the rear of the plane.