[BITList] FW: An Amazing Airplane

[franka]

Malcolm
must admit it doesn't look very realistic to me either, even as a concept
frank

On 10/25/2011 8:33 PM,  M & E. HENDERSON. wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto:franka at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>
> ***The most amazing airplane in History*
>
>
> The *most amazing airplane in History....For the Airplane Buffs*.
>
> Built in Russiaduring 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 Kalininexecuted.
>
> 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 EmpireStateBuildingon 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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