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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.
Pan Am Flight 1104, trip no. 62100, [1] was a Martin M-130 flying boat nicknamed the Philippine Clipper that crashed on the morning of January 21, 1943, in Northern California. The aircraft was operated by Pan American Airways , and was carrying ten US Navy personnel from Pearl Harbor , Hawaii , to San Francisco, California .
Artwork highlighting the aircraft in the context of other clippers. The Martin M-130 was a commercial flying boat designed and built in 1935 by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, for Pan American Airways.
The Martin 193 was a design for a giant cargo transport seaplane that was conceived in 1942 as part of the "Sky Freighter" concept for colossal flying boats that could carry large loads of troops and freight across the Atlantic Ocean in response to the sinking of Allied merchant ships by U-boats.
Pas-de-Calais: Converted merchant ship in service as a seaplane tender from 1915 to 1919; Rouen: Converted merchant ship in service as a seaplane tender from 1916 to 1919; Petrel-class: Eight light inshore seaplane tenders in service from 1931 into World War II; Commandant Teste: Seaplane transport and tender in service from 1932 to 1942
Philippines select Hyundai Heavy Industries to build 6 new offshore patrol vessels. [75] The contract to build these vessels was recently signed on June 27, 2022. The ship offered has a heavier displacement of 2400 tonnes and a length of 94.4 meters and width of 14.3 meters.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk just announced plans for vehicles that could take us to Mars.
Ferrying of aircraft to the Philippines from the United States began in 1916 when the First Company, 2d Aero Squadron, was activated at Fort William McKinley, Luzon, on 3 February 1916. This pre-World War I unit was a training school, operating Martin S Hydro seaplanes, first produced in the United