Terry
SOH-CM-2016
Received this in the mail, the first two I can buy but the turrets on the third I have trouble believing.
AMAZING photos of PRE WWII Russian bomber
They used every conceivable spot for another engine looks like.
Any of you pilots out there want to fly this bad boy OR maintain it.
In the last photo notice the cannons in the landing gears and under the cabin.
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
carrying 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.
Still, on the attached photos you can see one such plane - a heavy bomber K-7.
AMAZING photos of PRE WWII Russian bomber
They used every conceivable spot for another engine looks like.
Any of you pilots out there want to fly this bad boy OR maintain it.
In the last photo notice the cannons in the landing gears and under the cabin.
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
carrying 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.
Still, on the attached photos you can see one such plane - a heavy bomber K-7.
