Kan det være USS Hornet i bakgrunnen av bildet under? Den ligger til kai i Alameda i Oakland i dag. Victoria hvor flyet landet nå, har utstrakt sjøflyaktivitet observert av undertegnede og en gjeng fra Norsk Flygerforbund som var på vei fra Seattle til Vancouver for mange år siden. (Red.)
Philippine Mars Aborts Museum Flights
The Philippine Mars is scheduled to spend time in
Alameda Lagoon, where it was operated by the Navy in the 1940s.
Updated Dec 15, 2024 10:55
PM EST
U.S. Navy/Wikimedia
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.
Sunday's diversion came
three days after a bad oil pressure regulator in an engine forced the plane's
return to Sproat Lake, near Port Alberni, B.C. With that snag fixed, the plan
was to head to San Francisco on Sunday, the first of three legs on its way to
an eventual overland arrival at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson. It's
not clear how long it will take to address Sunday's snag.
Meanwhile, more details
have been released on the proposed itinerary for the giant aircraft, which
spent more than 50 years as a water bomber after being sold to a group of
Canadian forest companies. It's not clear if these plans will hold with
Sunday's diversion but the schedule for that flight put the Mars in the Bay
Area before sunset on Sunday for Customs clearance and a two-day stop in
Alameda Lagoon, where the plane was based when it was operated by the Navy. It
was then scheduled to head to San Diego and land near the USS Midway Museum. The landing
location in Arizona is being kept secret.
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