Martin Mars Water Bomber Engine Start Up 

Yeah bro agreed ! We have a catalina here in NZ... WW2 survivor , still in operation . You can pay to have a flight with minimum amount of people... I haven't yet but it's on the bucket list ! But this one is setup on its wheels is only downside .

Nope!

Fantastic!

That must have been a great experience to get to get up close to these impressive flying boats! Thanks for sharing your experience, I'm glad this video was able to help bring back some good memories.

aww really ? that's a shame

Where is it!! Location??

@@samarpankoirala North America

Their are three Mars Bombers. The 3rd is in the deep water resting for renewal??? Correct me.

The Marianas Mars crashed near Northwest Bay, British Columbia, on 23 June 1961 during firefighting operations; all four crew members were lost. Just over a year later, on 12 October 1962 while parked onshore at the Victoria airport, the Caroline Mars was damaged beyond repair by Typhoon Freda when she was blown 200 yards, breaking her back.[8] The Hawaii Mars and Philippine Mars had their conversion into water bombers advanced and entered service in 1963.[3] They appeared at local airshows, demonstrating their water-dropping ability. Flying Tankers Inc. flew the water bombers to hot spots around the province when a need developed, such as in August 2003, when a large forest fire threatened the outskirts of Kelowna, British Columbia.

They really are, I'd love to have a flight in one some day. Thanks for watching!

Ya, it was interesting to see. Every mouthing they would start her up and "taxi" around the lake for 10-20 minutes so the aircraft would be ready to go if they got the call.

Ya, it really is amazing how far we've come from these old giants. Thanks for watching!

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+Ken McKim That must have been quite the impressive sight to see all three on the lake. I was so happy to get to see this classic a few summers back. Thanks for watching!

very very tremendous.

+Alf Torp The Martin Mars is amazing indeed, it was really cool to see this classic.

Goose bumps isn't an aircraft its a children's horror novel, get your facts straight.

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Nothing beats that sound!

Yes. They need to be able to slow down, back up and turn side to side to pick up the mooring in windy conditions.

I want one for christmas!!!

Thanks a lot!

Haha so true, like trying to wake up a giant beast that is in a deep sleep :-)

Jack Frost And leak oil while I'm at it.

Presumably. But I suspect that the water quality in Kootenay Lake is very closely guarded.

+Tony Sweet Probably do a little bit but I don't imagine it'd be much.

+Tony Sweet When?

possibly some ecoterrorist annoyed by the smoke.

L188dude Probably spot on!

+Ulf Holmström (Masonix) possibly someone who expected the aircraft to take off in this video and therefore was disappointed.

+JelleNetherlands Everyone loves a ring of oil around their boat, dock, jetski.

+Ulf Holmström (Masonix) George Noori lol

That's really cool, must have been interesting getting a tour through this beast!

Thanks very much for watching, glad you enjoyed the video!

Thanks for watching!

Janice Earley That would be nice, it would be interesting to see something the same size with today's technology.

Thanks so much!

TheHDAviation You are welcome!

Thanks a lot!

Ed Whisenant Thanks so much! The Martin Mars is definitely one of the most impressive aircraft I've ever seen in person. I wish I would have captured the takeoff footage but I managed to turn off the recording instead of start it.

Nice, that must have been an impressive sight seeing them both in action. Sad they aren't flying these days.

@@TheHDAviation Yes, as a young aviation enthusiast it was amazing. We were between the mountain and the lake, it would fly almost directly over our house for a while there. Awesome channel by the way, you get such great shots of so many interesting aircraft! Seems like Nelson is the place to be.

Thanks a lot!

U welcome 👍

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How do the pistons not hydrolock if there is oil collecting in the cylinders?

Probably not as much oil as to cause that. And, of course, exhaust valves, they may have a way to keep the exhaust valves open like a decompression lever like what some motorcycles use. Anyway a radial engine doesn't have oil sitting in the crank case like a car engine so you can't really think about the bottom cylinders the same as you would a Chevy turned upside down. They are more like a 2-stroke engine when it comes to lubrication, the oil is injected at point and much or all of it is burned over time. I have a 2 stroke outboard motor on my boat, with oil injection, and it makes a lot of smoke when I start it but does not hydrolock. It is, though, always really smoky when I cold start it. Really smoky. Sometimes even when it's warm. But it gets better once it's running. Under power there is no smoke. Also when I have to idle through a "no wake zone" it doesn't smoke. But when I have to start up again oh boy. That's one way to get the kids to stop fishing and get out of the way on the fueling or loading dock.

ya makes sense ... just never thought about it ., In 2000 I watched this plane take off from Sproat Lake provincial Park.

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Yep, and can you hear the sputtering of the small engine powered generator making electric power to run the lights, instruments, oil and fuel pumps before the big radials fire up?

The brakes don't work well when wet. So once one engine fires up, you're on the move. In order to control got to get the engines up and running as quickly as possible to maintain control.

@@davem5333 That's what I was thinking but then later on in the video we see it reverse so it has variable-pitch propellors. Why did they not just have the blades set in the mid position so that it would not move?

***** Brakes - on a boat!!??

***** ...which is not quite the same thing! I guess to park this beast you set the throttles onto tickover and juggle with the pitch controls to get to where the Bowman can reach the buoy with his boathook.

It has variable pitch props, right? Set two for forward thrust and two for reverse and it shouldn't move too much if facing the wind. The question I have though is whether there's a water rudder or not.

Seaplanes are unique beasts....whole new set of run up and shut down procedures...

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed the video!

This aircraft was so impressive to see in person, it truly is massive.

...DC-10.....pretty handy if there are no lakes or rivers around.....

Yeah, they use all types of aircraft out here in California. We just moved out here this summer, and coming from the midwest you don't realize what a huge effort forest firefighting is. We saw some of this same work when we lived in North Idaho, but that area is relatively sparsely populated compared to LA.

CL 415 is the most performance water bomber in the world .

Jonathan Lackman hate to break this to yeah, but this plane is based out of ab Canada.

Yeah California just rents / hires most of their firefighting planes every year. CA is not good at planning in advance. There was some talk in state legislature last year (2016) of buying some new water tankers but I don't know if it passed or not.

Ya, this thing was massive. One impressive machine!

+SydneyAirportCapturer HL It was definitely impressive to see. Thanks!

Ya, that will definitely be sad when they're gone. I was talking to the crew while the Hawaii Mars was stationed here and it sounds like 2013 may be the last year of the Mars Bombers fighting fires. Philipine Mars is supposed to fly down to a museum in Florida and Hawaii will be retired or sold.

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you kill much more time. l think it is take off

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+johnabuick That's a good question, it definitely would have been cool to see a Martin Mars with turbine engines!

That don't gap them, they replace them. Aircraft plugs are much different than the ones in cars and trucks, or anything else for that matter.

2 per cylinder X 18 X 4 = 144 plugs!

I thought these had the R-4360’s on them, which were four row radials and had twenty eight cylinders. But it was the Hughes H-4 Hercules I was thinking of. It had 8, not 4 engines. 2 plugs/cylinder x 28 cylinders/engine x 8 engines = 448 plugs!! Can you imagine?

Very nice video ! I saw this brand of plane for first time in my life!

That's so true, you can't tell its massive size from the video, but up close it is truly impressive! Thanks very much for watching.

Thanks for watching :-)

Thanks!

Nice, that must have been an amazing experience!

The airline "Antilles Air Boats" at that time were also flying twin engine DeHaviland sea planes

David Herbant Thanks for watching!

You're welcome :)