CF-LYL Martin JRM-1/-3 "Hawaii Mars", Bu.# 76823. Photo @ Lk. Elsinor, CA. June 19-1998.
Editor: The Mars was the largest flying boat ever to enter production!
Picture added on 22 February 2007
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It's Lake Elsinore (E at the end). The two remaining Mars boats have been modified back to JRM-1 configuration with Wright R3350 engines. The JRM-3s were JRM-1s whose original R-3350 engines had been replaced with Pratt & Whitney R-4360s by the Navy at NAS Alameda. More power (500 hp more per engine) but the R-4360 had reliability issues and the Canadian company operating the airplanes as air tankers elected to go back to the R-3350s (of which they obtained a large supply)
Added by John Hazlet on 04 November 2007.
Martin Mars ..Reawakened me to WW 2 Saw the plane in awe..Look before me a beautiful Mars taking off Look at those 3350s too..My respects
Added by John Hazlet on 04 November 2007.