It was actually a Russian plane and it did fly. It was about 1/3 as large as it appears in the retouched photo. Here is some more fanciful artwork of the scaled-up K-7, including a dogfight with a UFO.
50 posted on 05/24/2010 11:26:07 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
(Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)