STORM RESCUE TOWBOATUS BALTIMORE CAPTAINS, Dale and Austin Plummer are local heroes — earning the Boat US Meritorious Service Award for saving a man’s life in the summer of 2017. A brutal storm had knocked sailor John Dalmas into the water. When his 25-foot sailboat was found aground, the Coast Guard and Maryland Natural Resources Police quickly launched a search. After fruitless hours off Bodkin Point, the Plummers made one last pass along the North Point shoreline before dark. It was then that 19-year-old Austin Plummer who had not yet earned his captain’s license, sighted Dalman. After seven hours in the water, he was standing in chest-deep water about 300 yards from shore. When the Plummers pulled him aboard, Dalmas explained that other boats had been within several hundred yards of him, but only the red towboat crew had seen him. wg
AIRCRAFT RETURN “HOME” The Martin RB-57A Canberra The Glenn L. Martin Museum received a Preservation Heritage Fund Grant of $1,800 to repaint 52-1467, the first non-building funds ever granted. After 10 months and 550 volunteer hours of sanding, sheet metal work, priming, painting and detailing, the final coat of black gloss paint was applied in the summer of 2017 followed by lettering, “stars and bars” and tail decals. The glossy black paint is a salute to its Cold War service as a night reconnaissance aircraft in Europe. The Martin Company built sixty seven RB-57A Canberras at Middle River in 1953 for the U.S. Air Force. Mauler under restoration Photos used with permission of the Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum
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Martin AM-1 Mauler
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Additionally, two Martin AM-1 Maulers have been brought back to the Museum. With help from the Maryland Air National Guard, the planes are now at GLM for extended restoration. Various sub-components have been returned to factory condition, including extensive sheet metal work to replace unusable and damaged airframe areas. The Museum’s intent is to take the best pieces of the two aircraft to bring a finished example of this rare Martin aircraft to full display condition. Much remains to accomplish, so volunteers are welcome to join this significant restoration project to bring another of Glenn L. Martin’s treasures back into public view. wg
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