The most amazing airplane in History....For the Airplane Buffs. Built in Russia during the 1930s, it flew 11 times before crashing and killing 15 people.
The designer, Konstantin Kalinin , wanted to build two more planes but the project was scrapped. Later, Stalin had Kalinin executed. Evidently, it was not good to fail on an expensive project under Stalin . It’s got propellers on the back of the wings, too. You can count 12 engines facing front.
The size would be equivalent to the Empire State Building on its side, with cannons. And you think the 747 was big... not only a bunch of engines but check out the cannons the thing was carrying.In the 1930s the Russian army was obsessed by the idea of creating huge planes. At that time they were proposed to have as many propellers as possible to help carry those huge flying fortresses into the air, jet propulsion has not been implemented yet.
Not many photos were saved from those times because of the high secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time has already passed. Can you imagine what it would be like sitting in this thing when those cannons go off? Looks like something out of a Jules Verne novel
That thing is packing some big guns! (Pun unintended)
ReplyDeleteI wonder how this would have developed if it was built with the materials we have today. The problem with old tech is that the materials they had before most likely could not support the stresses that the new designs are giving them, leading to destructive consequences, if not immediate dismissal."
Cash Carroll