Back in 2007 I wrote about the Martin Mars flying boats and how there were some proposals to move one of them from British Columbia, where they have had a long and storied career as water bombers, back to Baltimore, where they were built. Well, that didn’t exactly pan out, but they are finding new homes: The Philippine Mars will be returned to flight status and moved to the Pima Air and Space Museum for permanent display. Similarly, the Hawaii Mars was just flown from its home on a lake in rural BC to the Victoria International Airport, where it will be on permanent display. I watched the livestream of the flight and it was pretty breathtaking, even though it was low-resolution and laggy. I’m glad to see these two amazing planes were so well-preserved that it was cost effective to get them flying again, even if they didn’t get one back here to Baltimore.