Initially developed as a Navy patrol flying boat, the aircraft later served as cargo transport. The Philippine Mars will be displayed at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona. The last Martin Mars ...
The U.S. military has employed a wide variety of aircraft over the years to transport troops, deliver cargo, and engage in combat. Perhaps no aircraft in its historical fleet, however, is more random ...
Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper,” it was a smaller ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — We are here in the desert, but Pima Air and Space Museum will be home to one of the biggest flying boats ever built. The museum will be receiving a Martin Mars flying boat.
The dawn of a new era in transportation technology is marked by the development of an electric flying boat that skims the water’s surface. This innovative vehicle has captured the attention of both ...
You know how boats usually sail on water, right? Well, what if I told you there’s a boat that can fly over water, like a bird or a plane? Sounds crazy, right? But it’s true. There’s a company in ...
In 1906, inventor Enrico Forlanini launched the first hydrofoil boat on Lake Maggiore in the Italian alps. His contemporary innovator Alexander Bell later said a ride on Forlanini’s invention was “as ...