My Grandpa Max served aboard a Mariner during the War as a radioman/side gunner. He used to talk about how they saved the Fleet when they encountered a Typhoon and reported the details back to Admiral Nimitz. His crew also flew over Nagasaki 3 days after the Bomb. He kept snapshots from that trip. The city was gone and in its place were rocks. He went on to use the GI Bill to get an engineering degree in Electronics and worked as a civilian for the Navy until he retired.
There is something wonderful and almost magical about the flying boats. Growing up, a close family friend had a Grumman Goose. I learned to fly in that plane. I can't explain it but there's something very special about them.
Yes..."magical" is the right word. I'm in awe of Flying Boats since I was a boy....and I'm still fascinated by them. That the helicopter replaced that beautiful invention has saddened me greatly.
It would make too much sense to have just a few flying boats for our always underfunded coast guard. How many aircraft do we have that can stay up for 24 hours ? Would make good balloon chasers ,too. Japan makes a very cool STOL seaplane, but it's a hundred million due to limited build.
I remember going to a fishing town in Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. Half dozen float equipped planes always on standby. They used them to spot prawn shoals in the gulf. and drop items to trawlers in emergencies.
My dad was a 19 year old radioman in PBMs during WW II in the Pacific. During long over water night missions he marveled at how the navigators managed to find their way home by the stars.
As a sand crab ( sailor talk for dependents), my father assigned to Ault Field Whidbey Is. Waiting for officer housing, we lived on the Oak Harbor Naval seaplane base. 1957, 1958. Every flying boat you described on vid. I have boarded along with numerous crash boat assigned to seaplanes. Everything is 100 % accurate you portray. ✝️👍🏻♥️. Drafted in army 1966 converted to Navy. ECM operator on A3, a Light nuke bomber, 3 man crew, know as All 3 dead. Navy was a real trip…
My dad was transferred to NAS Whidbey in 1967 and retired in 1969. I was 5 when we arrived at Whidbey. The seaplane base no longer operated aircraft by the time we arrived. I went to kindergarten in the old seaplane base hanger. Oak Harbor was a great place to grow up then.
I remember the Mariner well. They were based across the river and up from us. We had a Hellcat base behind us. I saw many in flight but for some reason never impressed me as the PBY always came to mind when I saw one. Never did see a PBY. Thanks for the video.
When I was about 10 years old, in the late 70s, I asked for a 1/72 scale Martin Mariner (Revell) for Christmas, and I was overjoyed when I got it. I always thought this was the coolest airplane, but I seldom heard any mention of it anywhere. Nice to watch a documentary of this airplane, brings good memories :)
My father served as a PBM radioman in the pacific. They could stay aloft for many hours while on patrol. He just finished one such flight when the call went out to assist in the rescue of the Indianapolis. The crew and equipment couldn’t be serviced in time to respond. I believe it was VP26 stationed for a time in the Philippines.
When I was a kid in the early 1980s, I spent some time admiring a Revell Mariner kit in a famous department store in my hometown. Today the kit is a collector's item, the store is gone since the 90's and I'm 40 years older,
The scale prototype was restored by retired Martin workers and is in the Baltimore Museum of Industry, very impressive for a single seat sea plane. However it was powered by a 6 cylinder Studebaker engine with chain drives turning the props.
Probably the most Capable Naval Aircraft ever to serve. I have loved the PBY in flight simulators since the 90s. Beautiful plane Utilitarian but can be fitted out to be VERY DANGEROUS.
I had the opportunity to meet and talk to a Pan Am Clipper flight attendant. She had a lot of stories to tell. Including flight attendant duties, she had to be certified nurse, cook meals, and at times help the crew in their duties. She said the navigator used a sextant, compass, and charts. They did have radio beacons to home in on but sometimes the beacon was down. She visited a lot of the remote pacific islands. She was quite a person. I don’t think anything bothered her.
My Dad's book and memoires about his service time with the Royal Dutch Marines from 1958 to 1960 in New Guinea has many details about accidents and fatal crashes of Mariners. It was known as the iron coffin, the widow maker etc.
Out of Boot Camp in '65 I was assigned to the seaplane tender USS Currituck AV7 for 6 months in San Diego, loved watching those beautiful P-5M (I believe) Martin seaplanes in operation, got in at the very end of an era.
In 1957 the Navy flew 2 PBM's to Oklahoma for the big airshow held in conjunction with the states semicentennial celebration of Arrows to Atoms. They parked in Lake Hefner a city water supply reservoir. The crews came ashore in rubber boats but were very disappointed to learn that Oklahoma was then still a Dry (no liquor) state.
Never saw a Mariner, I did see a Catalina doing landing in Mount Isa Queensland in the early 1970's. It had been equipped with geological magnetometer gear and was doing aerial surveys North to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Was still capable of both land and water landings.
In the mid-2010s there was a Catalina operating from around Johannesburg, South Africa, carrying magnetometer gear. I never did see a Mariner, so have loved this video.
as a boy, in the 50's, I swam in Maryland's Magothy river on the Western shore of the Chesapeake bay, near Annapolis. It's called Cape Saint Claire. On the opposite shore - Gibson Island- someone had a flying boat. Frequently we'd see it landing and taking off, creating a great deal of spray, which was fun for us boys to see at the time. I'm not sure what model it was but it was not a Catalina. We took it for granted. thinking a lot of people must have owned them. What an ideal beach motor home it would make for some millionaire!
The Navy was still flying the P5M's in 1957-58, out of Sangley Point NAS, about 20 mi N of Manila, Philippines. A USNA classmate of my dad's, LCDR Homer Whitaker, Commander of the Squadron, let me go along on several flights along the China coastline, staying outside of the 12-mile limit. The flying boats boasted a nice stainless-steel galley, and I was a pretty good 12-year-old chef. I did get to fire the very big twin-.50 cal guns from the tail gunner position. Those flights, if I recall correctly, were at least 12 hours, taking many pictures.😁
Dark Skies, you talked about the U boat sinkings, but it was also a Mariner that spotted the Yamato and orbited overhead until US carrier planes sunk it.
I have never missed a single one of your videos since I was aware of it since 11/21. Looking for the time to review your older videos is coming soon, I hope!
You can experience the speed difference between the mariner and catalina in war thunder, it was honestly jarring just how much noticeably faster it was
I love these videos. However I do have one complaint. While I know there is not a lot of video footage out there, it would be very helpful if when you talk about a particular variant, it is the one shown. Personally, I would rather the footage were looped that show the variant you were talking about than be talking about a latter version and showing the scaled down model. Thanks.
@@peterrichter1047 Thanks for the info. I’m in Louisiana & will prob never make it there 😆. It is good to know that at least one is still around tho!!!
Um, the title is "How This Flying Boat Changed Naval Aviation Forever". That case was not only never made, but there is nothing about this aircraft that was particularly revolutionary. It was a well-designed and well-built aircraft, just like many of its fellow Navy aircraft. It was versatile and capable, just like many of its fellow Navy aircraft. It was pitched as a rival with the PBY but was it better? No case was made for that. It, like all planes, was succeeded by better versions. But did its design somehow revolutionize future designs or change how the Navy used airpower? Not that I can see. I don't think it "changed naval aviation forever".
My late English father was a Telegrapher was 4 years of WW2 in Bermuda and told me the only military aircraft he saw was one of these flew over one day.
When I was young the Confederate Air force which became the commemorative air force was at the old Naval air station in Harlingen Tx they had one sitting on the tarmac it was enormous I wonder what happened to it
My dad flew a Mariner in the Korean War. In Bermuda Santa Claus would arrive in a Mariner at the naval base there. I remember seeing them take off in front of our house using JATO.
The PBM Mariner is cool. But it is vastly overshadowed by the PBY Catalina and to be honest, I'm more of a fan of Catalina than the mariner but the mariner is still a cool plane
In the game COD-5, this was became a gunship who attack the Japan Cartier ship. And I love this moment when i playing that game. Attacking the Japanese ship. Now the gunship was C-130, the death angle on the sky.
Ah, the Flying Boat, such a wonderful plane. Too bad no service uses them. I would think the Coast Guard would have some for long range search and rescue, when a helicopter just cant do, because of lack of range.
Seaplanes have more drag, have to be built heavier and are more maintenance intensive since they work in salt water. With so many airports and longer range, regular planes are cheaper to operate. Though Japan makes and uses several similar looking aircraft. But US special operations has a C-130 with Edo floats to do water landings.
@@78jog89 Spruce goose was a lemon, the 26 second wonder or the boat that never flew, the Martin Mars was a lovely thing, if you want to go strange there is always the Short Mayo Composite, a four engine seaplane that carried and launched another 4 engine seaplane from its back while in flight.
Even though there's only one remaining, I would love to find or build another large flying boat, but outfit it as a large flying RV that can operate from land or water and go anywhere in the world that no other land-based RV can go. Imagine finding a large lake out in the middle of nowhere with no people around for 100+ miles. Land in it, do some fishing, some camping on shore, and relaxing for a week or three, then fly out and do it all again in another uninhabited location.
Perfect plane for search and rescue missions and life guard missions as well and missing ships and other missions as well and i will be very happy to running air and sea search rescue station with both planes and the grumman float planes for recon rescue missions and let them fly
At 0+7:30 in this video a flight of 4 is shown. The first two aircraft appear to be Mariners, just like aircraft #3 & #4 BUT, they Do Not have Wing Floats of any kind, not even retractable floats can be discerned. Are these two aircraft PBM-1's of the first 55 built?
Flying boats always have some special beauty to them sponsor matter if military or civilian ones. I wish that some company would bring them back. I think that they would make a great weapon in the nation’s anti-drug war. As the drug runners wouldn’t know what to look for .
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My Grandpa Max served aboard a Mariner during the War as a radioman/side gunner. He used to talk about how they saved the Fleet when they encountered a Typhoon and reported the details back to Admiral Nimitz. His crew also flew over Nagasaki 3 days after the Bomb. He kept snapshots from that trip. The city was gone and in its place were rocks. He went on to use the GI Bill to get an engineering degree in Electronics and worked as a civilian for the Navy until he retired.
what did Hawker Typhoon do over the Pacific?
@@NoNameAtAll2 Tropical storm, unless you were speaking facitiously
@@NoNameAtAll2 i was thinking the same thing until i realized a typhoon is a storm
@@NoNameAtAll2, the pilot of the Hawker Typhoon was obviously completely lost, besides setting a flight endurance record!
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God Bless him and all your family.
There is something wonderful and almost magical about the flying boats. Growing up, a close family friend had a Grumman Goose. I learned to fly in that plane. I can't explain it but there's something very special about them.
Yes..."magical" is the right word. I'm in awe of Flying Boats since I was a boy....and I'm still fascinated by them. That the helicopter replaced that beautiful invention has saddened me greatly.
It would make too much sense to have just a few flying boats for our always underfunded coast guard. How many aircraft do we have that can stay up for 24 hours ? Would make good balloon chasers ,too. Japan makes a very cool STOL seaplane, but it's a hundred million due to limited build.
I remember going to a fishing town in Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. Half dozen float equipped planes always on standby. They used them to spot prawn shoals in the gulf. and drop items to trawlers in emergencies.
Flying boats are magical. Perhaps first among them in my mind is the PBY. Capable of land sea and air.
Yes, I grew up on lake of the woods and flying planes gave the ability for people to fly to the most remote areas and could land so many places.
My dad was a 19 year old radioman in PBMs during WW II in the Pacific. During long over water night missions he marveled at how the navigators managed to find their way home by the stars.
As a sand crab ( sailor talk for dependents), my father assigned to Ault Field Whidbey Is. Waiting for officer housing, we lived on the Oak Harbor Naval seaplane base. 1957, 1958. Every flying boat you described on vid. I have boarded along with numerous crash boat assigned to seaplanes. Everything is 100 % accurate you portray. ✝️👍🏻♥️. Drafted in army 1966 converted to Navy. ECM operator on A3, a Light nuke bomber, 3 man crew, know as All 3 dead. Navy was a real trip…
My dad was transferred to NAS Whidbey in 1967 and retired in 1969. I was 5 when we arrived at Whidbey. The seaplane base no longer operated aircraft by the time we arrived. I went to kindergarten in the old seaplane base hanger. Oak Harbor was a great place to grow up then.
So glad you guys give love and content to the glorious seaplanes of the past! Thank you
On my first tour in Pax River in ‘68 there was one of these aircraft across from the VP-24 hanger by the sea plane ramp. God, that thing was HUGE!
I was there in 1972 and there were two of them there then.
Probably SP-6B Marlins, and no longer operational.
I believe too it was helicopters that ultimately replaced flying boats.
The Mariner, Marlin and Mars and are my favorite flying boats. Thanks for posting this documentary.
I remember the Mariner well. They were based across the river and up from us. We had a Hellcat base behind us. I saw many in flight but for some reason never impressed me as the PBY always came to mind when I saw one. Never did see a PBY. Thanks for the video.
When I was about 10 years old, in the late 70s, I asked for a 1/72 scale Martin Mariner (Revell) for Christmas, and I was overjoyed when I got it. I always thought this was the coolest airplane, but I seldom heard any mention of it anywhere. Nice to watch a documentary of this airplane, brings good memories :)
The last surviving Mariner is on display at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson.
Thank you, time for a road trip
That's funny. A sea plane in the desert. At least it should last a long time.
I came looking for that info. I was at Pima in December 2019, will check my pictures.
@@tomedgar4375 Lot of good stuff out there.
Its what Dad flew at the end of the war. Thanks for another perspective on this great plane
Somehow, the look of flying boats is something special. This one is top five.
Yes, If you want to see the last remaining PBM it is in Tucson AZ.
My father served as a PBM radioman in the pacific. They could stay aloft for many hours while on patrol. He just finished one such flight when the call went out to assist in the rescue of the Indianapolis. The crew and equipment couldn’t be serviced in time to respond. I believe it was VP26 stationed for a time in the Philippines.
When I was a kid in the early 1980s, I spent some time admiring a Revell Mariner kit in a famous department store in my hometown. Today the kit is a collector's item, the store is gone since the 90's and I'm 40 years older,
The scale prototype was restored by retired Martin workers and is in the Baltimore Museum of Industry, very impressive for a single seat sea plane. However it was powered by a 6 cylinder Studebaker engine with chain drives turning the props.
There's something about them that just catches the eye. I think the Mariner is a beautiful plane.
Probably the most Capable Naval Aircraft ever to serve. I have loved the PBY in flight simulators since the 90s. Beautiful plane Utilitarian but can be fitted out to be VERY DANGEROUS.
I had the opportunity to meet and talk to a Pan Am Clipper flight attendant. She had a lot of stories to tell. Including flight attendant duties, she had to be certified nurse, cook meals, and at times help the crew in their duties. She said the navigator used a sextant, compass, and charts. They did have radio beacons to home in on but sometimes the beacon was down. She visited a lot of the remote pacific islands. She was quite a person. I don’t think anything bothered her.
The Catalina was and always will be #1. But the Mariner was pretty cool and had beautiful inverted Corsair wings...lol
My Dad's book and memoires about his service time with the Royal Dutch Marines from 1958 to 1960 in New Guinea has many details about accidents and fatal crashes of Mariners.
It was known as the iron coffin, the widow maker etc.
Underpowered
PeppersGhost - They had structural problems in rough weather that would encourage gas tanks to blow up. Budda bing, budda BOOM!!
Out of Boot Camp in '65 I was assigned to the seaplane tender USS Currituck AV7 for 6 months in San Diego, loved watching those beautiful P-5M (I believe) Martin seaplanes in operation, got in at the very end of an era.
In 1957 the Navy flew 2 PBM's to Oklahoma for the big airshow held in conjunction with the states semicentennial celebration of Arrows to Atoms. They parked in Lake Hefner a city water supply reservoir. The crews came ashore in rubber boats but were very disappointed to learn that Oklahoma was then still a Dry (no liquor) state.
Its sad how the PBM Marner is so underrated compared to her older sibling.
Never saw a Mariner, I did see a Catalina doing landing in Mount Isa Queensland in the early 1970's. It had been equipped with geological magnetometer gear and was doing aerial surveys North to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Was still capable of both land and water landings.
In the mid-2010s there was a Catalina operating from around Johannesburg, South Africa, carrying magnetometer gear. I never did see a Mariner, so have loved this video.
as a boy, in the 50's, I swam in Maryland's Magothy river on the Western shore of the Chesapeake bay, near Annapolis. It's called Cape Saint Claire.
On the opposite shore - Gibson Island- someone had a flying boat. Frequently we'd see it landing and taking off, creating a great deal of spray, which was fun for us boys to see at the time. I'm not sure what model it was but it was not a Catalina. We took it for granted. thinking a lot of people must have owned them. What an ideal beach motor home it would make for some millionaire!
Nobody does it better. Thanks for another great video.😊
While the mariner was a glorious huge bird, I have always loved the pby catalina
I’ve always loved these airplanes. Thanks for the story. Wish they still made them.
The PBM was a BIG girl....always been a fan of the Catalina, never knew much about the PBM. Thanks !
The surviving aircraft is at the pima air and space museum. Iv seen it a few times and it always blows me away how big it is
Martin PBM Mariner was lost searching for flight 19 (the famous TBF Aveners lost flight).
The Navy was still flying the P5M's in 1957-58, out of Sangley Point NAS, about 20 mi N of Manila, Philippines. A USNA classmate of my dad's, LCDR Homer Whitaker, Commander of the Squadron, let me go along on several flights along the China coastline, staying outside of the 12-mile limit.
The flying boats boasted a nice stainless-steel galley, and I was a pretty good 12-year-old chef.
I did get to fire the very big twin-.50 cal guns from the tail gunner position. Those flights, if I recall correctly, were at least 12 hours, taking many pictures.😁
If your stranded at sea .....and one of these rock,s up ..... THE BEST MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE
Amazing engineering, I would love to have been on the Martin MARS when Kermit Weeks flew it to Oshkosh.
There was even a small area for meal prep too. The dependability was a legend.
May we always remember their courage and sacrifice . Thank You .
Fascinating Story. Well Done Sir.
Dark Skies, you talked about the U boat sinkings, but it was also a Mariner that spotted the Yamato and orbited overhead until US carrier planes sunk it.
Dog 10 from VPB-21
Thank you for sharing
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My dad flew on these and worked on the engines out of Rio de Janeiro during WWII ... I have seen where it was a bear to even get cranked up!
Great info! Love your new slower style!!! So enjoyable!!! THANK YOU!!
And that 1 PBM-5 is located at the PIMA air museum in Tucson Az. ..its a massive airframe .. you have to see it up close ..
Thanks for this
My Dad had photos of working on these at Lake Boga Flying Boat Repair Base in Australia.
Fantastic aircraft
Another fine video! Great subject to and well done video-to-narration sync.
Thanks ❤
Catalina, one lovely flying party boat for the lucky few that can afford this air craft.
This narrator has a very good military story-telling voice.
The Greatest Generation was the GREATEST GENERATION!
It just looks sooo cool.
I have never missed a single one of your videos since I was aware of it since 11/21.
Looking for the time to review your older videos is coming soon, I hope!
Flying boat my beloved!
You can experience the speed difference between the mariner and catalina in war thunder, it was honestly jarring just how much noticeably faster it was
Is war thunder a TH-cam channel or a film? I would like to check it out.
@@mikehannan8011 video game.
Getting close to 2000 fighter kills in my Mariner.
I’d love to see flying boats back in the Navy
Great first minute!
Thanks for the great video on this great machine!! So sad only ONE survives today!
There is one on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL.
It's sad to hear their is only one left.
The Mariner was my favorite flying boat. It is very unfortunate that only one exists out of over 1300 Mariners.
Love these summaries.
Dark skies .. !! You should totally make a video about the Douglas BTD destroyer
I love these videos. However I do have one complaint. While I know there is not a lot of video footage out there, it would be very helpful if when you talk about a particular variant, it is the one shown. Personally, I would rather the footage were looped that show the variant you were talking about than be talking about a latter version and showing the scaled down model. Thanks.
Always wish I could buy one (or the Catalina) and turn it into a boat house.
I love the Catalina!
A nice tribute to an aircraft that very few people know about. Would you consider doing a videos on the Neptune, Mercator and Marlin?
Forever, as in until 1967, when the last Navy flying boats were retired. And none since then, 55 years later.
Thanks for a fascinating video.
Like the Hawker Hurricane, the PBM was the "unsung hero" of the USN.
Looked like it was HUGE! Really nice looking plane. Too bad there aren’t any around to tour
There is one in Tucson Arizona at the Pima Air and Space Museum
@@peterrichter1047 correct
@@peterrichter1047 Thanks for the info. I’m in Louisiana & will prob never make it there 😆. It is good to know that at least one is still around tho!!!
They were actually a small seaplane, My Grandfather flew them for a short time and liked them though he did prefer the Sunderland
@@georgebarnes8163 Guess I’ll have to get to that museum in AZ to see for myself 😂
Um, the title is "How This Flying Boat Changed Naval Aviation Forever". That case was not only never made, but there is nothing about this aircraft that was particularly revolutionary. It was a well-designed and well-built aircraft, just like many of its fellow Navy aircraft. It was versatile and capable, just like many of its fellow Navy aircraft. It was pitched as a rival with the PBY but was it better? No case was made for that. It, like all planes, was succeeded by better versions. But did its design somehow revolutionize future designs or change how the Navy used airpower? Not that I can see. I don't think it "changed naval aviation forever".
My late English father was a Telegrapher was 4 years of WW2 in Bermuda and told me the only military aircraft he saw was one of these flew over one day.
When I was young the Confederate Air force which became the commemorative air force was at the old Naval air station in Harlingen Tx they had one sitting on the tarmac it was enormous I wonder what happened to it
Like the larger Martin Mars even more.
UNBELIEVABLE UNBELIEVABLE EXCELLENT AEROPLANE ✈️ 👏
My dad flew a Mariner in the Korean War. In Bermuda Santa Claus would arrive in a Mariner at the naval base there. I remember seeing them take off in front of our house using JATO.
A great PLANE--a nother great remembering story about the last big war and the starting cold war--thx --tue rollf
Great video, now please do a good video about the CONVAIR TRADEWIND !!!!
The PBM Mariner is cool. But it is vastly overshadowed by the PBY Catalina and to be honest, I'm more of a fan of Catalina than the mariner but the mariner is still a cool plane
In the game COD-5, this was became a gunship who attack the Japan Cartier ship. And I love this moment when i playing that game. Attacking the Japanese ship. Now the gunship was C-130, the death angle on the sky.
Ah, the Flying Boat, such a wonderful plane. Too bad no service uses them. I would think the Coast Guard would have some for long range search and rescue, when a helicopter just cant do, because of lack of range.
Seaplanes have more drag, have to be built heavier and are more maintenance intensive since they work in salt water. With so many airports and longer range, regular planes are cheaper to operate. Though Japan makes and uses several similar looking aircraft.
But US special operations has a C-130 with Edo floats to do water landings.
Flying Boats are the best. And the Mariner is just about the coolest.
You have not seen a Short Sunderland then? nicknamed the flying porcupine.
@@georgebarnes8163 Spruce Goose? Martin Mars? And how about Coastal Command with that awesome Vaughn Williams score?
@@78jog89 Spruce goose was a lemon, the 26 second wonder or the boat that never flew, the Martin Mars was a lovely thing, if you want to go strange there is always the Short Mayo Composite, a four engine seaplane that carried and launched another 4 engine seaplane from its back while in flight.
Take a shot every time he says PBY Catalina!
Even though there's only one remaining, I would love to find or build another large flying boat, but outfit it as a large flying RV that can operate from land or water and go anywhere in the world that no other land-based RV can go. Imagine finding a large lake out in the middle of nowhere with no people around for 100+ miles. Land in it, do some fishing, some camping on shore, and relaxing for a week or three, then fly out and do it all again in another uninhabited location.
They already did that years ago. To bad it never...... *damn it*.... took off!
Saw a video some time ago about a crew flying a PBY into some very remote places in Africa.
You see a flying boat. I see the world's greatest fishing hotel!
Its sad that only 1 exaple survive
I have just noticed how similar the soviet Be-6 is to PBM
War not needed peace is the way. God Bless
Perfect plane for search and rescue missions and life guard missions as well and missing ships and other missions as well and i will be very happy to running air and sea search rescue station with both planes and the grumman float planes for recon rescue missions and let them fly
My dad flew the Mariner and we have pictures of him ande is plane in Korea. The only one left is. In Tucson at the aircraft museum - totally restored.
Wow. I'm just imagining how a rocket assisted takeoff in heavy seas must have been.
Always recall first hearing about it in conjunction with the missing of Flight 19 over the Bermuda Triangle in Dec 45
During the war Mariners and Cat squadron's were based at USNAS Little Goat Island not far from my home town Old Harbour Jamaica.
great video
I would love to fly one of these flying boats, and own one too.
At 0+7:30 in this video a flight of 4 is shown. The first two aircraft appear to be Mariners, just like aircraft #3 & #4 BUT, they Do Not have Wing Floats of any kind, not even retractable floats can be discerned. Are these two aircraft PBM-1's of the first 55 built?
Only one survivor out of 1336 ! Please, where is the lone survivor ?
Pima air museum.
went and saw her last weekend
@@pickeljarsforhillary102 Thank You. I look forward to a visit.
Flying boats always have some special beauty to them sponsor matter if military or civilian ones. I wish that some company would bring them back. I think that they would make a great weapon in the nation’s anti-drug war. As the drug runners wouldn’t know what to look for .
...my late brother, Ray, built the IIRC, Revell kit of this aircraft...
I fancy shoulder wing, twin tail configurations.
Do a video on its successor the Martin P5 M1...
The only surviving Mariner is at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson AZ.