Thanks much, John.

Stuff like this keeps me coming back to r.a.m.n.
--
Mike Kanze

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"France deserves to be annoyed by as many people as possible, as often as
possible, if only for encouraging Jerry Lewis by telling him that he was a
genius."

- Ian Robinson, CALGARY SUN, 11/14/2004


"John Szalay" wrote in message
6.16...
In August, while cataloging the debris field around the wreck of a
Japanese
midget submarine, HURL submarine pilot Terry Kerby ran across the inverted
keel of a "flying boat"
A Martin JRM-1 Mars named "Marshall Mars"


In the spring of 1950, during a test flight off of Diamond Head, one of
"Marshall Mars" engines caught fire, and the pilot landed in the open
ocean. Although the crew got out safely and a fireboat was soon on the
scene, the plane burned, exploded and sank. The cause was thought to be a
leaking fuel line, although it could not be confirmed because the wreckage
vanished, swallowed by the ocean.


http://starbulletin.com/2004/12/14/news/story4.html

two of the Mars flying boats are still around.
http://www.martinmars.com/