Now here's a plane.



"In 1930s Russian army was … by the idea of creating huge planes. At that times they were proposed to have as much propellers as possible to help carrying those huge flying fortresses into the air, jet propulsion has not been implemented at those times yet. Not much photos were saved since that times, because of the high secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time passed already. Still on the photo below you can see one of such planes - a heavy bomber K-7.
Now modern history lovers in Russia try to reconstruct according the plans left in once to be top-secret Russian army archives their look in full color. This is one example based on ideas of Russian aviation engineers of that times."







English Russia » Russian Flying Fortresses

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Lou

LOL that translation is terrible j/k

Imagine if that thing actually WORKED lol probably would've taken just one of them to take out Dresden.

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Easily the most overpowered tank in history. Seriously - dual 280mm cannons?! It's not like the Allies had a tank with 200mm of armor!

The second plane looks much smaller than the monster in the first pic. The first pic looks modern though all the equipment laround it ooks vintage. Wonder what the tail weel is for, possibly to prevent the tail hitting the runway if the initial climb angle was too steep.

This is very intersting I'd always believed the ANT-20 was as far as they went, has anyone any more info, tried to follow the links but got nowhere.

BTW I thing the multi engined between the wars designs were because the best available engines of the the time were in the 600HP range, give a 2200Hp R-3350 and they would use fewer of them.

Makes the Spruce Goose look like a Spitfire....

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Actually, I think it's two different planes. The one on the bottom is a K-7 bomber.




Kalinin K-7 - bomber, passenger

SPECIFICATIONS:

CREW 12
PASSENGERS 128
ENGINE 7 x M34F, 550kW
WEIGHTS
Take-off weight 38000 kg 83776 lb
Empty weight 24400 kg 53793 lb
DIMENSIONS
Wingspan 53.0 m 173 ft 11 in
Length 28.0 m 91 ft 10 in
Wing area 454.0 m2 4886.81 sq ft
PERFORMANCE
Max. speed 234 km/h 145 mph
Cruise speed 180 km/h 112 mph
Ceiling 4000 m 13100 ft
Range 3030 km 1883 miles


I believe the one on the top was built from "secret" plans in an archives.

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Lou

If you look closely at the first picture it appears to be computer generated. Look at the soft lines around the structures and the background.

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I was more looking at the lack of detail in the background, it looks like off.

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Robert,

How many miles would the take-off roll for either plane be?

Good thing the Russia was so roomy at the time.

tom

Definetly computer generated look at this


Must admit they fooled me. They must have added these since I visited that site, worth a look as a couple are really funny

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2231

Ha! The structural integrity of that aircraft is amazing!

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