[BITList] An Amazing Airplane

[franka]

Welllll it looks good

On 10/25/2011 8:09 AM, David Harvey wrote:
> Another one to check on Snopes Frank
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> On 24 October 2011 21:35, franka <franka at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:franka at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
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>     ***The most amazing airplane in History*
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>     The *most amazing airplane in History....For the Airplane Buffs*.
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>     Built in Russia during the 1930s, it flew 11 times before crashing
>     and killing 15 people.
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>     The designer, Konstantin Kalinin, wanted to build two more planes
>     but the project was scrapped.
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>     Later, Stalin had Kalinin executed.
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>     Evidently, it was not good to fail on an expensive project under
>     Stalin.
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>     It's got propellers on the back of the wings, too. You can count
>     12 engines facing front.
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>     The size would be equivalent to the Empire State Building on its
>     side, with cannons.
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>     And you think the 747 was big... not only a bunch of engines but
>     check out the cannons the thing was carrying.
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>     In the 1930s the Russian army was obsessed by the idea of creating
>     huge planes.
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>     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.
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>     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.
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>     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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>     <http://www.incredimail.com/?id=619267&did=10500&ppd=2727,201107241502,9,[TypeID],[IM_UPN2]&rui=130560027&sd=20111023>
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