pre ww11 rooski bomber

[goo]

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[us019255]

Looks like the cover picture from a bad pulp fiction magazine from the '30's. All that is missing is search lights, biplane fighters and a scantily clad girl recoiling in horror!

[BruceV]

Nice target.

[Jim K]

It was called the K-7 and apparently was real. While supposedly developed for civil aviation (like most "to be" bombers of the time), there are movies of paratroopers leaving the aircraft by simply rolling off the massive wing.

Since the Soviet propaganda machine of the 1930's was much more highly developed than the Russian aircraft industry, there are some who believe it was a monster mock-up, intended to show the superiority of Communism, and never really flew.

Jim

[dryheat]

Still a big plane. The passengers actually sat in the wings.. It flew for a couple of months and then crashed. Plans for two more were scrapped.The 3D Computer generated model shown is 2.5 times the scale of the original K-7 but retains the same gigantic elliptical wing of extremely thick airfoil, with two triangle section tail booms. The K-7

[Kirk]

This is someone's vivid imagination mixed with Photoshop. The Russians did have a giant transport in the '30s but it had a conventional fuselage & wing. The wing was thick enough for people to stand erect inside & it did have rooms & bunks in the wing. The wing of the aircraft depicted is two stories high! This aircraft was destroyed when one of two chase planes got too close & colided.

Besides the dimesions - nothing this size & weight could get off the ground with 1930s aircraft engines, there are two other tip offs the photo is a fake. Tire manufacture technology in the 1903s could not make tires as tall as a man & 3' thick. When the Russians copied the B-29, which used a much smaller tire, the Russians went on the surplus market & equipped their bombers with US made tires; they could still not make big tires in the late 40s. The second tip off is the vast expanse of concrete. In the 30s, most major airports were still had sod runways. I doubt even Moscow had paved parking aprons like that shown.

[jona]

This will give a better idea of its true size.

[talucah]

appears similar to Burnelli's lifting body concept.
http://www.aircrash.org/burnelli/chrono1.htm
Bob