As a piece of aviation history, the last flying Martin Mars has a worldwide following but nowhere has it been more embraced than in its home of 60 years in Port Alberni, B.C. The hometown Alberni Valley Media prepared this nice tribute.
Hawaii Mars flown to YYJ museum in August, parked awaiting funds for a building.
Philippine Mars still trying to get to museum in AZ, after second attempt out of foggy Sproat Lake it landed in Patricia Bay at YYJ. Apparently a different engine was misbehaving this time.
(YYJ weather should be better but logistics of diagnosing and fixing much harder, it may be very difficult to beach it at Patricia Bay unless barriers were cleared for Hawaii Mars. Coulson does have a floating platform and bootstrap rig to lift engine, good road goes right past the bay.)
Beware much irresponsible nonsense about, such as a propeller falling off. We complain about ignorants in Avweb but Rob Frolic’s Martin Mars forum on FB is several times worse.
(Hasty fool either couldn’t see blades in feathered position clearly or was irresponsibly imprecise. ‘Engine off’ could be misinterpreted, even ‘down’ is bad language for aviation.)
So far Philippine Mars is just sitting moored way out in the Bay in rainy gloomy winter weather of short days.
Coulson mechanics will need to troubleshoot the offending engine.
They have a floating work stand at Sproat Lake, could be trucked to Patricia Bay.
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