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Reference to Excambrian (NC41881) brings back memories.
In the mid-1950s, I lived near a Maryland Air National Guard civilian mechanic who sometimes took me along to Harbor Field in Baltimore to spend the day watching P-51H and Ks and AT-6s shooting landings and wandering around the field looking t airplanes. Among the aircraft parked on the grass was a Columbia XJL-1 (cast off from Naval Air Station Patuxant River, if my memory serves correctly). The other was Sikorsky VS-44 NC41881, which, according to my mechanic friend (and my 65-year-old-memory) "some guys [were] fixing it up to haul freight in South America." I took photos of both , but can't find them (they are in one of 42 boxes in the basement labeled "to be filed"), but I found these images of an XJL-1 in rather better condition that the one I knew (https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Columbia_XJL) and Excambrian at Harbor Field a few years prior to my making its acquaintance (https://www.airliners.net/photo/Unti...-VS-44A/286694). I think my buddy Jim Reuter (JimR in this Forum) may have taken some photos of one or both airplanes. Bill Geoghegan (DrBill in this Forum) may have done the same. Either of them may have information to add. By the way, when we first moved to Baltimore in December 1947, BOAC was still flying Boeing 314s from the Harbor Field seaplane terminal. To my very great regret, I never actually saw them, but was shown a film clip of one of them taking off sometime in the late 1940s. None of this gets us much further on the Martin M-130 model, but I thought some might be interested in these old memories. Don |
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Aaron I hope you have time to do this one, ambitious for a model, but I think of this aircraft when I think of the Pan Am clippers. The S 42 is a plane I thought at one time to try to do, but my design skills are limited especially compared with you guys using Rhino or similar CAD they look really great. Not that it still isn't a lot of work, it still is for sure. The complex shapes of the Martin I really didn't try to figure. Nothing more romantic in an airplane that a flying boat, Kermt Weeks has recently uploaded a tour of his Short Sunderland....really cool stuff.
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China Clipper
Wasn’t the China Clipper in most of the Indian Jones movies?
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I just found that Cleveland Model Plans (reincarnation of the old Cleveland Models) has the 1937 plans available for the Martin M-130 in a range of scales from 1/32 (48" wingspan) to 1/4 (that is a 348" span =29 feet!) This might be a great help in designing a paper model. It is at Cleveland Model Airplane Plans - Model Airplane Plans Product Detail.
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Hi All,
It’s nice to see this thread back on the page. In the time since the subject was first discused, I have been the happy recipient of a paper model of the Martin M-130. I should have remembered this thread and offered the model at that time, but forgetting comes so easily these days. A year ago, friend and fellow Papermodelers member Tom Greensfelder sent me a copy of the model shown below. Designed by a man with the reiterative name of Holling Clancy Holling, this syndicated series of dioramas titled, The World Museum, appeared in the comics section of Sunday newspapers across the country in 1937. Tom has sent me three of these dioramas. They include an arctic scene with polar bears, an underwater treasure hunt and this, the Martin M-130 flying over the pineapple fields of Hawaii. It’s not the most detailed paper model I’ve ever seen, but it does build into a pleasing diorama. I spent some time cleaning up the scans sent by Tom, and those brightened images are the ones you see here. Enjoy. Score and fold, Thumb Dog |
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That is a great build of the unique Diorama, TD. Thanks for sharing it.
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ill deliver that model this year
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I had the opportunity to visit the Maryland aviation museum at the old Glen Martin facility while working at Middle River.
A few pics of the Clipper model and drawing showing the interior. As an aside, the New England aviation museum at Bradley field in CT has a restored VS-44 Sikorsky flying boat ( a competitor to the martin design ; only 3 built ). Worth a trip to both. Isaac
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It is prominently displayed in the middle of the museum I lived 3 miles from the museum when it was outdoors before and during the tornado that destroyed most of the planes. Isaac
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