As a Fireman with the Langford Volunteer fire Dept. we were fighting a mountain top forest fire in Glen Lake . Having spent a couple of days fighting the fire, word came down that the BC Forrest service had authorized the water tankers to assist us. We were ordered to leave the site and shortly the “ Bird Dog was scouting the fire. It then left and came back with its sirens blazing, and then this red monster of the Mars swooped in over the top of the mountain and dropped this WALL of water directly over the hot spot. There was nothing more to do but roll up the hoses and head back to the hall and clean up.
When was this? I remember when I was a kid in Sooke being woken up by this thing flying overhead. Instead of sending me back to bed, my father took me to the Sooke Basin to watch it scoop. Really fond memory, makes me wonder if this was the same fire you fought.
Thanks for sharing this historic aircraft with us! Also, thank you for NOT covering up the sound of those great radial engines with cheesy or beautiful music.
Four eighteen radial cylinder Wright Cyclones, two thousand five hundred horsepower each. There is not an orchestra in the world that can make music to match them. They don't make them like that anymore and never will again.
My Father was the flight engineer on that plane when it was Navy commissioned. I also flew on this plane between Hawaii and Alameda Naval Air Station when I was 2 years old.
Thanks so much for posting this video; the sound of those radial engines is simply awesome! One of the best I have heard. The 1080p HD is the icing on the cake.
I worked fires with both Martin Mars and Canso (CDN Catalina PBY) waterbombers on them in the late 60's and spent many hours watching the Mars working fires on Southern Vancouver Island in the early '70's.Just remembering the sound of a Mars passing overhead coming into drop on a fire still raises goosebumps!!
What an incredible video and as has been said before thank you for not having some stupid noise covering up the music from these engines!! Great Job on the Vid
As a 16 year old I was able to go under the Mars Water bomber in 1977 while they were based on Sprout Lake in Port Alberni in British Cpolumbia Canada. It was a great memory.
Thanks for posting this video. I have loved that Mars for many years, and hope that it flies forever, since it can drop more water than anything else: 60,000#. That can have quite a salubrious effect on a fire and the Mars has, on more than one occasion, put out a forest fire with one drop. With only one craft left, though, a suitable replacement is necessary, perhaps composite and even more streamlined, with piston engines (better fuel economy) or turboprops (more power) & powered controls.
There are still 2 left. As of now they're both on the bomber base on Sproat Lake. The Hawaii Marsnis airworthy and was up flying yesterday. The Phillipines Mars would need a refit to fly, but the airframe is entirely sound and capable.
I got to fly on this plane the sunday before this was filmed! They were doing a test flight before leaving for vancouver. Was one of the best moments of my life being as Ive lived on Sproat all my life and been wanting to fly in one forever!!
I sat in the left chair in this wonderful aircraft back in the summer of 2008. She was on the shore for maintenance at her home base in Port Alberni. I will never forget that. Fantastic footage!
I love watching this beauty scoop up water from in front of my house to fight fires in my province. Thank god that bonehead premier reinstated it earlier today.
What a great airplane! Brings back memories of the old passenger flying boats. Excellent engine sound, and looks like a pretty good load of water for a forest fire. Great video, thanks.
Grew up in Port. Love these planes. When they flew overhead, which they did often as a child, everyone stopped to look up and admire them. They roar! They're so impressive. And they put out many fires. Got to watch them many times, working and on maintainance runs. Had a tour once, very cool. Somewhere theres a picture of me in the pilots seat. Theres a huge sense of pride with the people of Port Alberni regarding these flying boats. I hope you can keep her going for some time Wayne. And when you do retire her, I beg that you keep her in town. Broke a lot of hearts to watch one go. Please please please lets keep one. You know you want to. Wayne likes the toys, and this is the baddest ass toy ever.
It was an amazing flight. Saturday our flight was cancelled because engine 4 was burning too rich. They have an amazing mechanic crew though so by Sunday afternoon it was ready to go. It was surprising how smooth this plane is. Even during pickups and landing you can hardly tell when the plane has touched water. Also I was allowed to walk around inside where ever I wanted. I got some good footy and pics from inside, maybe ill post them when I get the time.
Water bombers are so cool! It was also the most unnerving thing having them fly low over my house as a kid! The size and sound of these planes are awesome yet intimidating!!
There is also the DC-10 which carries a large load of Fire-Retardant. It has to land after it drops it's full-load,but the Martin Mars does not have to land and come to a full stop to reload. After it drops it's load,it just skims the water surface to pick up another 30-ton load of water(which covers over 4-acres),to which it can add chemicals it can store on board in other tanks, and since it has around a 4,000-mile-range,it can stay in the air for around 5-1/2-hours at a time without refueling. The maintenance-crew also refuels,and works on the flying-boat overnight,so it is ready to go the next day. It costs a lot of money to operate,but it is very efficient in the way it operates.There is a very good 2-part DVD set on these Flying Boats,with on-board-operating-footage.
They lease these planes during fire season in so cal (lake elsinore) and its docked pretty close to my work. Its awesome to watch this thing land and take off, it never gets old.
posted on different aviation forums and olympic websites....it did a drop in vancouver too for the olympics and stayed here in richmond over night. there were lots of people here filming and taking photos.
What an impressive airplane! Obviously the aircraft in this video is fired up in water, my only question is how do they cycle the prop through to prevent hydro-lock on start-up? Probably a stupid question, I'm just curious.
The Mars was featured in Seversky's book, "Victory Through Air Power" as the future of maritime-based heavy bombers. Few were built and I'm surprised this one was still flying.
This airplane is a huge beast and it's too bad that in southern CA,we don't have this airplane in our CDF base. The helos are fine but are sorely limited. This beast will shut up the most harshest critics of old planes. Hey SAN DIEGO.! aRE YOU LISTENING AND REASDING ABOUT THIS NOW...
As a ten year old I use to watch them take off in the early fifties in Hawaii At Keaa lagoon. Could have the same aircraft . Did they have JATO assistant Then??. Cheers
Such an amazing aircraft! Massive! I WANT TO FLY ONE OF THESE! It's like a giant firefighting yacht with wings. Imagine a privately owned one? Customized, luxury living space inside, retractable water slide off the back...it'd be a flying houseboat.
I was living on Vancouver Island back in the 70's and saw these two planes mourd at an inlet. I was up close to these planes and they are huge. But what happened to the second one?
Awesome plane. Strange, people dislike anything and everything. Why would 59 people dislike or even bother down thumbing this video! Thx for posting I liked seeing it.
She's a Beauty! I read recently that this old gal is soon to be retired and will come to Pensacola naval Aviation museum. Anyone else heard if it's true and when is she coming....I want to be there when she arrives!
Is there any aircraft with a similar water bombing capacity able to replace it? The need will remain: forest fires around the globe sure ain't gonna retire anytime soon!
Ah: 45,000 litres of water (or fire-retardant chemicals) on the DC-10, vs 27,000 litres of water on the JRM-3 Mars. DC-10 is faster in the air and has larger capacity but can only reload on land. The Mars is slower has less capacity but can reload quickly from scooping up water while taxiing - thanks for answering! :)
My son took a picture of the mars and a picture of my dad, Capt. Winsor, in the bridge taken from Time magazine 1944 to the Pensacola Air museum and they indicated they are thinking of bringing one to the museum.
One of my favorite aircraft of all time. The only thing sadder than their being only two airworthy examples of the Mars, is it's little brother, the Martin Mariner, only has one intact example (that I know of) and it's a museum piece that will never fly again.
This plane reminded of the time I was in Canada.... Superior Lake... When visited a castle to stay for one week.... Hmmm... Missed it so much now......!!
If you were to install turbo props on the plane, what would be the current piston HP vs the Turbine HP versions, how much more could it lift, how much faster would it deplete its fuel supply...?
As a Fireman with the Langford Volunteer fire Dept. we were fighting a mountain top forest fire in Glen Lake . Having spent a couple of days fighting the fire, word came down that the BC Forrest service had authorized the water tankers to assist us. We were ordered to leave the site and shortly the “ Bird Dog was scouting the fire. It then left and came back with its sirens blazing, and then this red monster of the Mars swooped in over the top of the mountain and dropped this WALL of water directly over the hot spot. There was nothing more to do but roll up the hoses and head back to the hall and clean up.
When was this? I remember when I was a kid in Sooke being woken up by this thing flying overhead. Instead of sending me back to bed, my father took me to the Sooke Basin to watch it scoop. Really fond memory, makes me wonder if this was the same fire you fought.
I think it would have been 1976 or 7
Now it’s time that this awesome plane finds its new home in the museum, since it’s no longer flying anymore
Dearly Missed Aircraft. Amazing aircraft
Thanks for sharing this historic aircraft with us! Also, thank you for NOT covering up the sound of those great radial engines with cheesy or beautiful music.
Four eighteen radial cylinder Wright Cyclones, two thousand five hundred horsepower each. There is not an orchestra in the world that can make music to match them. They don't make them like that anymore and never will again.
Totally agree, some idiot usually wants to put the music of Top Gun over the sound of 4 beautiful radial engines
I would love that sound as a sleep app ASMR. It’s hard to find that particular engine sound. I’ll keep looking.
@@janelynn2560just cut it from this video and make a loop of it.
My Father was the flight engineer on that plane when it was Navy commissioned. I also flew on this plane between Hawaii and Alameda Naval Air Station when I was 2 years old.
Thanks so much for posting this video; the sound of those radial engines is simply awesome! One of the best I have heard. The 1080p HD is the icing on the cake.
I worked fires with both Martin Mars and Canso (CDN Catalina PBY) waterbombers on them in the late 60's and spent many hours watching the Mars working fires on Southern Vancouver Island in the early '70's.Just remembering the sound of a Mars passing overhead coming into drop on a fire still raises goosebumps!!
That would have been my uncle Bill Waddington flying it then.
NOW... WE NEED THIS.
What an incredible video and as has been said before thank you for not having some stupid noise covering up the music from these engines!! Great Job on the Vid
As a 16 year old I was able to go under the Mars Water bomber in 1977 while they were based on Sprout Lake in Port Alberni in British Cpolumbia Canada. It was a great memory.
Thanks for posting this video. I have loved that Mars for many years, and hope that it flies forever, since it can drop more water than anything else: 60,000#. That can have quite a salubrious effect on a fire and the Mars has, on more than one occasion, put out a forest fire with one drop. With only one craft left, though, a suitable replacement is necessary, perhaps composite and even more streamlined, with piston engines (better fuel economy) or turboprops (more power) & powered controls.
Please begin the renderings now!
There are still 2 left. As of now they're both on the bomber base on Sproat Lake. The Hawaii Marsnis airworthy and was up flying yesterday. The Phillipines Mars would need a refit to fly, but the airframe is entirely sound and capable.
What a magnificent machine. Martins must be very proud of their achievement.
every martin around the world thinks fondly of it, yes
I got to fly on this plane the sunday before this was filmed! They were doing a test flight before leaving for vancouver. Was one of the best moments of my life being as Ive lived on Sproat all my life and been wanting to fly in one forever!!
I bet that was awesome!
Beautiful plane. I was lucky enough to watch this beauty in action on Skaha lake while on vacation. A trip I have never forgotten. Wow
So beautiful. I love all float planes! But the Martin Mars is my very favorite! Thanks
Excellent camera work. Love these planes. I grew up on Sproat Lake and have flown in the hawaii mars, it was one of the best experiences of my life.
Thanks for posting such a well done video of such a rare bird!
I sat in the left chair in this wonderful aircraft back in the summer of 2008. She was on the shore for maintenance at her home base in Port Alberni. I will never forget that. Fantastic footage!
oh. my. god. that engine sound on takeoff is glorious
I love watching this beauty scoop up water from in front of my house to fight fires in my province. Thank god that bonehead premier reinstated it earlier today.
So what Trump said about your prime minister was correct 😊
How did you get Prime Minister out of Premier? 2 different things. He was referring to the tard, Notley.
What a great airplane! Brings back memories of the old passenger flying boats. Excellent engine sound, and looks like a pretty good load of water for a forest fire. Great video, thanks.
An dream!!! Wish i could see this live!!! Thank`s that you show us that video!!
Beautiful to see old birds like this still flying. Great footage. :D
Grew up in Port. Love these planes. When they flew overhead, which they did often as a child, everyone stopped to look up and admire them. They roar! They're so impressive. And they put out many fires. Got to watch them many times, working and on maintainance runs. Had a tour once, very cool. Somewhere theres a picture of me in the pilots seat. Theres a huge sense of pride with the people of Port Alberni regarding these flying boats. I hope you can keep her going for some time Wayne. And when you do retire her, I beg that you keep her in town. Broke a lot of hearts to watch one go. Please please please lets keep one. You know you want to. Wayne likes the toys, and this is the baddest ass toy ever.
Grew up there too... Really, besides a nice clean lake, this is the only thing folks can be proud of. I'm grad 87 ..... We the same generation?
It was an amazing flight. Saturday our flight was cancelled because engine 4 was burning too rich. They have an amazing mechanic crew though so by Sunday afternoon it was ready to go. It was surprising how smooth this plane is. Even during pickups and landing you can hardly tell when the plane has touched water. Also I was allowed to walk around inside where ever I wanted. I got some good footy and pics from inside, maybe ill post them when I get the time.
WOW!
This water bomber is HUGE!
ikr
Water bomber what ??!!??
Absolute unit
Water bombers are so cool! It was also the most unnerving thing having them fly low over my house as a kid! The size and sound of these planes are awesome yet intimidating!!
WOW. the video, aircraft and weather; absolutely perfect. Thank you Sir for a great post.
There is also the DC-10 which carries a large load of Fire-Retardant. It has to land after it drops it's full-load,but the Martin Mars does not have to land and come to a full stop to reload. After it drops it's load,it just skims the water surface to pick up another 30-ton load of water(which covers over 4-acres),to which it can add chemicals it can store on board in other tanks, and since it has around a 4,000-mile-range,it can stay in the air for around 5-1/2-hours at a time without refueling. The maintenance-crew also refuels,and works on the flying-boat overnight,so it is ready to go the next day. It costs a lot of money to operate,but it is very efficient in the way it operates.There is a very good 2-part DVD set on these Flying Boats,with on-board-operating-footage.
Thanks for sharing! :) An amazing piece of history still working away.. with an honorable task!
Beautiful sound. Great to hear that it is getting another chance to show off.
One flight left.
Happy retirement C-FLYL
A terrific video of one of my favourite aircraft!
Amazing video and so rare..Thank you for sharing Del!!
Nothing like the sound of reciprocating radials!
simply BEAUTIFUL ! There is nothing like an old flying boat !
Few, if any, aircraft (or anything else) has such 'Presence'. Magnificent machine.
buffalo joe needs 1 of these in Yellowknife.what a freakin beast!
They lease these planes during fire season in so cal (lake elsinore) and its docked pretty close to my work. Its awesome to watch this thing land and take off, it never gets old.
العرب الذين يشاهدون اقلاع الطائرة المستعملة في اطفاء الحرائق من الجزائر بصحة والراحة وعقبال الدول لخرين
Nice to see the bomber fly again. Luv the old prop jobs
sweet sound! I love big prop driven planes....we have a restored B-17 in Mesa that sounds like 20 Harleys!!
Perfectly filmed! Just awesome!
Without any doubt, the Martin is in a class of its own! Hurrah!
I used web tracker he flew over us at Hillsboro Airport at about 7000 feet .. thanx for posting !!!
Great video of a rare aircraft: thank you!
What a majestic aircraft! I wonder about the feasibility of refitting these with turbine (turbo-prop) engines?
Impressive video of a very rare flying boat. Keep her flying.
the Martin Mars has to be around 70 years old now?
A piece of flying history!
First one with a sp!it tail flew in early 1945. Then the order of 20 was cut to just 5 more
posted on different aviation forums and olympic websites....it did a drop in vancouver too for the olympics and stayed here in richmond over night. there were lots of people here filming and taking photos.
Amazing. Lots of respect for those guys.
O, I saw this aircraft on flickr! It really is a nice aircraft, and it's also cool to see it in action! Nice video!
They should start manufacturing these beautiful behemoths again.
There's always something intriguing about watching a seaplane / flying boat unsticking from the 'step' as it's taking off.
What an impressive airplane! Obviously the aircraft in this video is fired up in water, my only question is how do they cycle the prop through to prevent hydro-lock on start-up? Probably a stupid question, I'm just curious.
I remember these two in Penticton in '94 during the Garnett Fires.
how beautiful! the propellers can revert ? (no brakes !)
that is one hellva big flying boat------just love the noise
It's like a small version of the Spruce Goose....amazing aircraft...proud to be Canadian :).
There is a 2-part DVD-set on these great planes. They were so good at putting out forest fires,they easily put them selves out of work.
wow this water bomber is huge
Dang....that is one BIG flying boat!! Very cool video!
The Mars was featured in Seversky's book, "Victory Through Air Power" as the future of maritime-based heavy bombers. Few were built and I'm surprised this one was still flying.
Absolutely magnificent aircraft.
This airplane is a huge beast and it's too bad that in southern CA,we don't have this airplane in our CDF base.
The helos are fine but are sorely limited.
This beast will shut up the most harshest critics of old planes.
Hey SAN DIEGO.!
aRE YOU LISTENING AND REASDING ABOUT THIS NOW...
She's for sale, make an offer. BC Governments contract ended in 2013 and she's looking for a new home
One HUGE plane!
The engine sounds sound rhythmic if such a word, very, very cool!
Awesome Video! Thank you for uploading.
Greetings from Germany.
@sichogs Yah it was a great time there.....I used a Canon Vixia HG21.....Also posted on my main channel page. thanks for watching.
As a ten year old I use to watch them take off in the early fifties in Hawaii At Keaa lagoon. Could have the same aircraft . Did they have JATO assistant
Then??.
Cheers
Such an amazing aircraft! Massive! I WANT TO FLY ONE OF THESE! It's like a giant firefighting yacht with wings. Imagine a privately owned one? Customized, luxury living space inside, retractable water slide off the back...it'd be a flying houseboat.
AMAZING video shots and quality as allways!!Thank you!!
That was so freaking impressive 😍💞 I'm actually stunned 😯😳!!!!
I want one!!!!!
Yup first time ever seeing it up close.
I was living on Vancouver Island back in the 70's and saw these two planes mourd at an inlet. I was up close to these planes and they are huge. But what happened to the second one?
museum somewhere in florida
Awesome plane. Strange, people dislike anything and everything. Why would 59 people dislike or even bother down thumbing this video! Thx for posting I liked seeing it.
Great video! Thanks! That has to be the best flying job in the world.
What a gorgeous airplane.
what a great video! I saw one of those in the distance in a lake B.C. Impressive.
Radial Love. Man, what an astoundingly georgeous airplane! Wow.
What a joy to watch. Great aircraft.
Awesome video!!! ... felt as though I was right there.
... what an incredible flying ship!
Feeling like watching a fantastic movie.
What a beautiful machine!
That sound though..... It's so beautiful!
need about a thousand of these
Dude! AWESOME video! Very nicely done! Nice to see someone else using a similar camera, mine's the HG20. :-)
That is a monster! Very impressive.
Beautiful sound
She's a Beauty! I read recently that this old gal is soon to be retired and will come to Pensacola naval Aviation museum. Anyone else heard if it's true and when is she coming....I want to be there when she arrives!
I think it's coming to Pensacola after it visits Oshkosh this July.
Is there any aircraft with a similar water bombing capacity able to replace it? The need will remain: forest fires around the globe sure ain't gonna retire anytime soon!
Djinnjaha: There's the DC-10.
Ah: 45,000 litres of water (or fire-retardant chemicals) on the DC-10, vs 27,000 litres of water on the JRM-3 Mars. DC-10 is faster in the air and has larger capacity but can only reload on land. The Mars is slower has less capacity but can reload quickly from scooping up water while taxiing - thanks for answering! :)
My son took a picture of the mars and a picture of my dad, Capt. Winsor, in the bridge taken from Time magazine 1944 to the Pensacola Air museum and they indicated they are thinking of bringing one to the museum.
The size of this queen is huge and her sound is gorgeous
Why isn't the Martin Mars being called in to help with the Fort McMurray Fires?
One of my favorite aircraft of all time.
The only thing sadder than their being only two airworthy examples of the Mars,
is it's little brother, the Martin Mariner, only has one intact example (that I know of) and it's a museum piece that will never fly again.
Thank you - great job! Please post the other vid.
Nice and noisy! Just the way this 4 engine flying boat should sound.
Beautiful keep her flying
This plane was used in the A-Team movie
This plane reminded of the time I was in Canada.... Superior Lake... When visited a castle to stay for one week.... Hmmm... Missed it so much now......!!
That is fan-damn-tastic! Love them old, big aircraft.
If you were to install turbo props on the plane, what would be the current piston HP vs the Turbine HP versions, how much more could it lift, how much faster would it deplete its fuel supply...?
Excellent! Do they take a little dingy to get onboard?
Nice show, great camera work!