Russian Flying Fortresses (monster propeller plane of 30's)

Egnlish Russia ^

[Oztrich Boy]

The actual plane appears to have been considerably smaller than the artists renderings.

The "clean, sharp" pictures with 12 tractor and 6 pusher engines are fake

The fuzzy photos with the 6 engines on the leading edge and a single pusher on the trainling edge is the real small K-7 which flew in 1933 and broke up in-air in its 9th flight.

NB "small is relative. With 53m wingspan and 40 tons takeoff weight it was pretty much the same size as the ANT-20 Maxim Gorky

[a fool in paradise]

And the world is down on US for waterboarding???

[Landru]

>ping<

You're gonna love the photos of this thing, my friend.

Looks like a pair of 9" cannons on top of the center "office complex". :o)

[martin_fierro]

Saw one of these Antonovs land at Moffett Field once.

[evets]

Lol. Before and after:

[TigerLikesRooster]

Does it run on diesel? :-)

[Cheburashka]

What you have to be able to do to get a job at a Russian furniture moving company.

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[JRios1968]

[JRios1968]

Saw one of these Antonovs land at Moffett Field once.

You mean, THE ONE...the Russkies only managed to make one.

[BJClinton]

Is there some part of “Egnlish Russia” you don’t understand?

;-)

[Slings and Arrows]

Caption 1: Russia invents the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

Caption 2: Better together - AFV's + Vodka.

[BillyA]

I’m clare as mdu.

[KamiW]

i’d have thought that the naval guns would pose a bigger problem than the props...

[Lexinom]

Yep. Their B-52.

[Cacique]

btt

[ExiledChicagoan]

Germans did the same thing with a trans-Atlantic flight to New York. Multi,multi engine beast. Maybe around 1936 or so.

[csvset]

That pic is disturbing.

[mad_as_he$$]

No way the plane in the first two pics flew.

[Cvengr]

Or the HMS Tyrannic....with polo fields

[Big Giant Head]

I saw one of those bad boys at KSTL Lambert Field once. It landed during the day sometime, but couldn’t take off until after midnight due to the warm temps.