Martin Mars Water Bomber demo

TTGVP presents...
One of 2 remaining Mars Water Bombers does a demo at Canada Place in Vancouver, BC

[@ifraneman07]

I was fishing alone in a 12 foot open boat in Saanich Inlet , circa 1960 , this thing came around the point at 200 feet over my head , heading for Patricia Bay and landed there . It was the first and initial delivery of these planes to B C . It was a flat black colour , and I can see it to his day ! Watched them practising all summer , best summer ever !

[@user-iv7de3xr6p]

Beautiful plane! My screenplay ‘Floating Laura’ features the Mars. ‘A maverick steals a classic airliner off a lake’. Often when sailing off Sidney (BC) it would fly overhead after picking up water off Saanich Inlet. I understand she’s headed to our BC Aviation Museum. Right on!

[@margotmaines7427]

my beloved Martin Mars demos near Canada Place, Vancouver BC

[@kiwidiesel]

+When your flaps are the size of some aircrafts entire wing.

[@SteveG-pf9mq]

Sadly the world will probably never see one fly again. One of the coolest planes ever built.

[@ml.2770]

Wrong! Hawaii Mars will fly from Sproat Lake to Pat Bay where she will retire to the BC Aviation Museum in late 2024. She'll fly low from Sproat east to Nanaimo and then down the Island. Make sure you get out to see her.

[@bigroy38]

She needs to be deployed to Ruidoso.

[@hartmutwrith3134]

I have visited these two huge birds at their home on our first trip to beautiful Canada. Never forget it!

[@scottw550]

This Martin Mars Huge Flying Boat flew about 500 ft bellow me after a water fillup while I was circling around 800-1000 ft up over the landing field after a 2.5 hour 10,000-foot high soaring flight, over the north shore of Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island BC.

[@qrtyu9]

3:37 got the BC ferries fast cats in the background. This video is beauty catch of that time in BC

[@grantshort4896]

Great video of a very special Aircraft 👍

[@Fabulousprofound168]

I finally found video of this! Thank you for sharing. I was lucky to see this demo in person, but I didn’t have anything to record it with😢

[@donaldmatthews8270]

I had the pleasure of seeing one take off up close on a trip to port alberni a few years ago

[@dbcampbell8739]

love that plane, may it fly forever

[@jimraq1]

Doug Campbell c

[@vanpenguin22]

If a plane touches down on a body of water, can it really be said to "land"?

[@teaeff8898]

Nothing better than the sound of big-ass aviation engines. Imagine if Howard Hughes got the Spruce Goose actually in service. Maybe Harbour Air can buy it, fly business people to China like the old days. 😎

[@MichaelSaraka1980]

Wow awesome video man

[@Bl4zz3r]

It's pretty damn cool to see this thing dump water on a fire.

[@terrykyte1845]

i had one fly over me while it was preparing to pick up a load at nanoose bay. it was at very low altitude and i thought the sun had finally burned itself out...

[@HOWNDOG66]

Sad to likely never see these fly again.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

It's amazing to think how old the are and how long they served . Canada has taken woundful care of them.😁

[@graham2631]

In Nootka sound as a kid from our boat I've seen them pick up and drop over and over. We hugged the beach l could see the pilots face as it scooped.

[@graham2631]

It was Bar creek camp in the 70's. Cook caught side hill on fire behind camp.

[@robertbowman3406]

One of these planes is now owned by Fantasy of Flight in Florida USA.

[@waynemanning3262]

Wrong

[@ml.2770]

Prius: 60 miles per gallon Hawaii Mars: 780 gallons per hour

[@AT-cn2gu]

Didn't realize Prius's put out fires or weigh 145,000 lbs lol...sorry but thats a dumb comparison. Id love to see this war bird put back to work.

[@ml.2770]

@@AT-cn2gu Lighten up. It's just a joke.

[@MrLevelhead]

Wow

[@DaveyJonesLockerwithJazzy]

And such a cool name = MARTIN MARS

[@AphexTwinII]

I wonder if they ever put airplane sounds at the beginning of train videos?

[@intensetazer]

only two left, but thats not too bad considering they only ever built 4! (IIRC)

[@donnafrakes5641]

There were actually 7 Martin Mars built.. there are 2 left stationed at the base here in Port Alberni

[@imprezzed42296]

LOL!!! Too True!

[@GauravSanjeevKumarBhardwaj1220]

It is soo big

[@polarablues64]

They should demo this bad boy at Seafair, Seattle.

[@lindaberg1695]

We need this plane for all the forest fires in BC's Interior....but the Christy Clark Liberal Provincial Gov sold it a couple of years ago.....and today the Province of BC is covered with wild fires.....stupid move Christy!

[@niceprguy2]

They think dropping a whole lot of tea cups of water will put out a fire instead of using this beautiful bird and dropping a swimming pool of water at one time.. We all know which approach works best...

[@lindaberg1695]

They should never have sold this beautiful and serviceable aircraft......with nearly 600 wild fires in BC that are covering BC & Alberta in dense smoke, we need this gal more than ever!

[@lindaberg1695]

I stand corrected on the ownership.....nonetheless they should have kept the contract going..we sure need them now

[@donnafrakes5641]

​@Ed Grant Coulson's would never run out of parts for the Mars bombers.. if they need parts they will make them in the machine shop on the Base..

[@rogerdickinson920]

Linda, I agree, she is as dense as Alberta's Rachel Notley. Clark or one of her clones said there were not enough big bodies of water for the mars to scoop from???? Really, look at BC's map. The Coulson tanker that crashed in Australia was making a 4 or 5 hr run each way. The 747 used in Cali can make 4 drops a day 'cus it has to be reloaded on land then go thru the startup and taxi procedure each trip. The mars and CL 215's and 415's can scoop and drop shortening the turnaround time.Yes she was a real prize that woman.If I had the money, I'd pitch it to the Forestry people that we have a changing climate and need all the muscle we can get and pay for the refit and upgrades myself.

[@rickz7657]

truck loggers

[@jimraq1]

And just Like that they burned enough avgas to keep me flying for literally years.

[@dootdoot1867]

Wow