*?fce Higgins Shipbuilding Corporation at New Orleans ie to build Glenn Martin 70-ton flying boats. These machines, the biggest in the world, known as the "Mars," are capable of flying to Europe and back non-stop. Ilie Mars has a wing span or 200 feet from tip to tip, its two-deck hull measures 117 feet in length, and it is , four 2000 horse-power Wright Duplex Cyclone engines. Top: The sky giant alongside a Culver cadet plane with Mr. Glenn Martin, whose company built the machine Tor the U.S. Navy, explaining some of .the details. Below: The Mars being launched at Baltimore.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 171, 22 July 1942, Page 4
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100*?fce Higgins Shipbuilding Corporation at New Orleans ie to build Glenn Martin 70-ton flying boats. These machines, the biggest in the world, known as the "Mars," are capable of flying to Europe and back non-stop. Ilie Mars has a wing span or 200 feet from tip to tip, its two-deck hull measures 117 feet in length, and it is , four 2000 horse-power Wright Duplex Cyclone engines. Top: The sky giant alongside a Culver cadet plane with Mr. Glenn Martin, whose company built the machine Tor the U.S. Navy, explaining some of .the details. Below: The Mars being launched at Baltimore. Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 171, 22 July 1942, Page 4
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