quemerford wrote:
And remember that Pima shifted a B-36, so the Mars will be a piece of cake for them!
However, the B-36 once broken down , was relatively manageable in terms of height and width of the fuselage.
Not so here.
To transport it by road, judging by the photo above with the J-3, it will need to be sectioned (basically drawn and quartered) to fit on the road.
Do the longerons and bulk heads simply unbolt or will they need to be cut?
Being a flying boat might work against it, being designed to be watertight, there might be some large one piece sections in there.
Given its size, (look at that photo above, of it on the water. Judging by the scale of the man in the nose hatch, it would be difficult to put that on a two lane section of freeway without slicing it vertically as well as horizontally to get it under an overpass), I'd at least think about flying it there and landing on the grass adjacent to the DM runway..or on the runway itself if foamed.
Of course the USAF and FAA might have other opinions.
A C-124 was cut/disassembled horizontally to fit in a C-17 to get from Offutt to Dover, so there is a precedent for something like that.
I'm sure they can do it...but it will be a job.
BTW...I happened to be there when their SR-71 was delivered by road. That was a sight.