Martin JRM Mars

good question.

I know the Martin Mars, when they were active, was owned by Colson, one of the forestry companies.

And they did a lot of, like, contract work for the governments on it.

But the smaller ones whose names are blanking on me, that I'm blanking on right now, that I...

We took surplus military aircraft, we modified them, we fitted them with retardant tanks, and we sent them back into service doing something they were never originally designed to do.

The consolidated PB-4Y Privateer, the Douglas DC-6, the Martin Mars Flying Boats magnificent machines, all of them, and all of them repurposed from original missions that had nothing to do with dropping slurry on a California ridgeline.

That's not a criticism.

That's just the reality of how the industry was built.