Philippine Mars, the last flying example of the world's largest flying boat, aborted its second attempt to begin its journey from a remote British Columbia lake to a museum in Arizona on Sunday. Instead of landing in San Francisco Bay, the massive former Navy transport instead turned around over Port Townsend, Washington and put down in a sheltered anchorage near Victoria International Airport after about two hours in the air. Local media is reporting that it had an engine problem.
Beware of confusion over which lake of two, apparently one is better for beaching and has less terrain around it.
Looks to me like Roosevelt Lake is SW of Phoenix, Lake Pleasant is NW of Phoenix.
Pima aviation museum is near Tucson, which is 174km from Phoenix to the SSE.
Maybe I’ve got map dyslexia, but Roosvelt Lake looks to me to be a bit ENE of Phoenix. And if you drive NE out of Apache Junction which we do occasionally you’ll see signs for Roosevelt Lake leading you northeast.