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<blockquote data-quote="Stargazer2006" data-source="post: 103857" data-attributes="member: 3129"><p>No Martin model numbers are known to have existed before the MO-1, which was Model 57.</p><p></p><p>This has led me to wonder if it was not simply initially the BuAer number, used inhouse by Martin to designate the plane. Considering Martin was then one of the Navy's main contractors (alongside Curtiss and Boeing), it is likely that, whatever specifications BuAer came up with for numbers 58, 59 etc., Martin may have had a proposal for each and perhaps they decided to continue (at least at the beginning) their own numbering from there? This is just a hypothesis but it sounds very logical and likely given that "57" seems in the right timeframe for BuAer's system AND that Martin only produced about fifteen designs in twenty-five separate versions before Model 57, not fifty-six...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stargazer2006, post: 103857, member: 3129"] No Martin model numbers are known to have existed before the MO-1, which was Model 57. This has led me to wonder if it was not simply initially the BuAer number, used inhouse by Martin to designate the plane. Considering Martin was then one of the Navy's main contractors (alongside Curtiss and Boeing), it is likely that, whatever specifications BuAer came up with for numbers 58, 59 etc., Martin may have had a proposal for each and perhaps they decided to continue (at least at the beginning) their own numbering from there? This is just a hypothesis but it sounds very logical and likely given that "57" seems in the right timeframe for BuAer's system AND that Martin only produced about fifteen designs in twenty-five separate versions before Model 57, not fifty-six... [/QUOTE]
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