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C.F. Martin 000-28EC Eric Clapton model. Martin opened its "Custom Shop" division in 1979. Martin built its 500,000th guitar in 1990, and in 2004 they built their millionth guitar. This guitar is entirely hand-crafted and features more than 40 inlaid rubies and diamonds. It is worth an estimated $1 million. As of 2007, Martin employed 600 people.
When last available new from the Martin Guitar Company, the 1942 D-45 retailed at $250 (letter from Martin Guitar Company to Mr. Harold Wagler dated October 1963, reproduced here [142]), equivalent to approximately $3,630 in 2014 dollars as a straight conversion, [143] however bearing in mind average incomes of the time, could be construed as ...
In the years of 1981 and 1982, Martin imported partially assembled Sigma guitars from Japan and the assembly was completed in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. There were only two models, labeled "Sigma Martin USA DR-28N" and "DR-35N", 'N' for "Nazareth". A Martin factory sales brochure shows the DR-28N retailed at $600.00 and the DR-35N retailed at $650.00.
Martin PBM 5-A Mariner on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum near Tucson, Arizona United States Navy PBM-5A ( Bureau Number (BuNo) 122071 ) is the only surviving Mariner. It is on loan from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. , and is currently on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis–Monthan Air ...
Martin B-10, 25th Bombardment Squadron, Panama Canal Zone Martin B-10 during exercises over Oahu, Hawaii, 1941 The B-10 began a revolution in bomber design. Its all-metal monoplane airframe, along with its features of closed cockpits, rotating gun turrets (almost simultaneously with the 1933 British Boulton & Paul Overstrand biplane bomber's own enclosed nose-turret), retractable landing gear ...
The first D-45 was a dreadnought guitar based on the Martin D-28 with luxury ornamentation (the "45" designation), [2] made especially for Gene Autry who, in 1933, ordered "the biggest, fanciest Martin he could." [3] This guitar is now encased in glass in the Gene Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California. [4]
Martin PBM Mariner The Martin P5M Marlin ( P-5 Marlin after 1962), built by the Glenn L. Martin Company of Middle River, Maryland , is a twin piston-engined flying boat that entered service in 1951, and served into the late 1960s with the United States Navy performing naval patrols.
The Pratt & Whitney F135 is an afterburning turbofan developed for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, a single-engine strike fighter.It has two variants; a Conventional Take-Off and Landing variant used in the F-35A and F-35C, and a two-cycle Short Take-Off Vertical Landing variant used in the F-35B that includes a forward lift fan. [1]