After almost exactly eight years, the world’s largest flying boat, a former U.S. Navy Martin Mars, got back in the air in British Columbia last week. The last time the…
These diagrams are wrong. The butterfly labeled ‘throttle’ should be on the engine side of the venturi and fuel passages, not on the filter side. That is where the choke is located, which floods the engine with extra fuel when closed to compensate for low starting temperatures.