[BITList] An Amazing Airplane

[franka]

***The most amazing airplane in History*

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.


	


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