The Martin BM was an American torpedo bomber of the early 1930s built by the Glenn L. Martin Company for the United States Navy. It grew from a Navy Bureau of Aeronautics design, Bureau Design 77, for a special-purpose dive bomber with two crew in tandem, a biplane with fixed tailwheel landing gear. The Martin prototype, the XT5M-1, was built at the company's new Baltimore factory and first flew on 17 May 1929 with a Pratt and Whitney Hornet radial engine. After a redesign of the wings it went to the Navy for service trials in May 1930, and the Navy then ordered the BM-1 with a more powerful engine and the slightly improved BM-2, 35 aircraft in all.
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it was first flown on 17 May 1929
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was a 1930s American torpedo bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company for the United States Navy
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Of the 35 aircraft built only seven were lost in accidents
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