[BITList] FW: An Amazing Airplane

Tue Oct 25 13:33:45 BST 2011

Franka,

I do not know if I am getting more cynical in my autumn years but this
airplane looks another joke.

Malcolm.  

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Welllll it looks good

On 10/25/2011 8:09 AM, David Harvey wrote: 

Another one to check on Snopes Frank 

Dave

On 24 October 2011 21:35, franka <franka at iinet.net.au> wrote:

          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.

<http://www.incredimail.com/?id=619267&did=10500&ppd=2727,201107241502,9,%5b
TypeID%5d,%5bIM_UPN2%5d&rui=130560027&sd=20111023> 

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