and later with Lockheed to create the modern Lockheed Martin corporation, the JRM Mars flying boat was created in 1938 in response to a United States Navy request for a long-range ocean patrol ...
It measured nearly 120 feet in length and 200 feet in wingspan — roughly the size of a modern-day Boeing commercial airplane. After the flying boats were reconfigured from patrol boats to cargo ...
The Philippine Mars, one of the last surviving World War II-era Martin JRM Mars flying boats, touched down in ... to a museum in Arizona. Dwarfing modern seaplanes, the Philippine Mars is a ...