Tagged: Martin Mars

Aerial Firefighters / Air to air photography / Air Transports / Amphibians / Aviation History / featured / military / museums / Seaplanes / Transports / U.S. Coast Guard / U.S. Navy / warbirds / World War II

June 9, 2025

Martin Mars Makes Its Last Delivery Flight

Photos by Keith Charlot, story by Ken Kula There have been plenty of historic “final flights” of a last airworthy example of an aircraft type. A much-followed example of this was the final flights of the last airworthy Martin...

Aerial Firefighters / Airliners / Airshow / Boeing / demo teams / EAA / fighters / Formation Flying / friends / oshkosh / Royal Canadian Air Force / Transports / U.S. Coast Guard / warbirds

August 15, 2016

2016 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Scrapbook

Another EAA AirVenture has come and gone, and it’s time to take stock of what we saw. There were headlines, and behind-the-scenes stories that made splashes across social media sites and web sites around the world. Rather than reiterate old...

assignments / bombers

February 2, 2012

Sacramento’s 2012 Aerial Firefighting International Airshow and Conference

My lone encounter with a large “wildfire” occurred five years ago while I was visiting Southern California. Watching a steady stream of tanker aircraft shuttle to and from a huge unnatural-looking cloud on the horizon, their bellies red-stained and...

bombers / military / navy / post

January 17, 2012

The U.S. Navy’s Connection With Fixed Wing Air Tankers

After World War II ended, an abundance of surplus military aircraft found their way into the fledgling aerial firefighting industry. The combination of a large payload and the high performance of many bombers, attack aircraft, and transports allowed enterprising...