Posted on 03/05/2009 7:08:36 PM PST by Neil E. Wright
I received the following via email.
"Anyone know anything about this aircraft? I am told it is German, early 30's vintage -- but some of the background suggests the pictures were taken at a later time. Is it real, or was it built for a movie? The designer appears to have not known a whole lot about parasite drag. Could it have been an amphib when the wheels were retracted into the wheel 'pants'? Note the heavy artillery in the last photo. Perhaps the rapid fire rearward pointing cannons also served a dual function: stall recovery!
With twelve pullers and eight pushers, I'll bet the flight engineers station looked like the boiler room of the Queen Mary. And I wonder if they had to leave the chocks an hour before scheduled takeoff to allow sufficient time for mag checks?
I searched without success for evidence of shuffleboard & badminton courts. Perhaps they're inside, on the sun deck, next to the swimming pool! ;)
Considering that the aircraft predated the technology for boosted controls, I wonder they selected & trained their pilots from the ranks of olympic arm wrestlers!! Or maybe they had to bring up co-co, and co-co-co pilots to the flight deck when they rang up bells for turns. :)
There's more -- but you get the idea.. Les"
Regards, Neil
Did the thing ever fly?
BTW, are your mugs still in use?
Blessings, Bro.
BTW,
What did you hear about the Needles UFO crash some time ago where the copters and sky crane were there within 17 minutes to cart it off toward area 51???
If it’s real I doubt it was ever intended to get more than a few feet off the surface.
Nice model. Looks like something that Blohm und Voss would design. I have seem a number of wild German aircraft designs from the 1930s and 1940s (many of which made it no further than the concept phase), but this is a totally new critter to me.
That looks like something from that scifi movie Sky Captian and the World of Tomorrow.
Russian Kalinin Ka-7 1930’s only three made before Lenin had the designer executed on charges of treason and espionage.
er, Lenin = Stalin (gee, ya try to look smart and you end up looking like a dumbass)
Well I’ll be, it’s real.
http://xyzphones.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/worlds-biggest-airplanes-huge-aviation/
Did Lenin's ghost get the designer?
Looks like a distant cousin of the spruce goose.
See post #9. I got my commies mixed up. Stalin, Lenin, Obama... What’s the difference?
That’s an amazing page! Thanks for the link.
Definitely some photoshop work done on the photos. The K-7 was large but not that large.
that picture looks a bit too good.
Compare the photos that Uglybiker posted. That’s definitely photoshopped.
David, you can reply to MilNet and direct them to this thread. FReepers have positively identified that big bird. Regards
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