nemo85
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Tail is different, though. Forward fuselage looks about right. Might have been built at a different plant to mostly Martin specs.Welcome on board !
I would say, it's a Martin T4M, as first flown in 1927, see attached 3-view from
Swanborough/Bower "United States Navy Aircraft since 1911"
Could be. The (expletives deleted) USN naming system makes it difficult to nail down exactly which model this mystery plane is...The Cleveland factory producing T4Ms was sold to Great Lakes Aircraft. Might this photo be of a Great Lakes TG-2 variant (or simply an alternative rudder experiment)?
I'm guessing the image from the start of this thread shows an earlier balanced rudder, tried before Martin settled on the T4M-1's definitive shape of balanced rudder.Compared to the T3M-2, the new model's fuselage structure employed lighter chrome-molybdenum steel alloy framing; its rudder was now horn-balanced and made of duralumin, and its wings were shortened by three feet. The crew arrangement was the same, though round windows replaced square ones in the fuselage compartments.
I'm guessing the image from the start of this thread shows an earlier balanced rudder, tried before Martin settled on the T4M-1's definitive shape of balanced rudder.