eBay: Martin PBM Mariner

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To add some more photos of the relatively rare PBM-1. One can see the retractable float and its mechanism. AFAIK they were too heavy and cumbersome. The fixed floats of the later variants might have created some drag but they didn't require complicated maintenance and saved a lot of weight. Of interest is the different carburetor intake, compared with those of the -3 and -5 variants. In the second photo you'll see the unique waist gun position.


And this is one of the two bomb bays of the "Mariner" - both were placed under the engines. I believe the a/c with the open bomb bay is not a PBM-1. In the above photo the a/c with number 32 is not a PBM-1 as well but a PBM-3.

IMHO these "Mariners" and the 4 in flight I posted earlier are from the same squadron.
BTW under post #36 by Schnautzer you can see a very rare photo of a PBM-1 converted into a transport (designation letter R) but in the Atlantic search scheme!
Cheers!
 
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