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looking for a picture of it. it was a Russian craft, had six engines (as
I recall) had seats for passengers, very slow, very ugly and only one built. I think I recall it was a high wing design. crashed and killed everybody aboard, seems I remember it being late thirties. TIA JD |
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"JD Cooper" wrote in message ... looking for a picture of it. it was a Russian craft, had six engines (as I recall) had seats for passengers, very slow, very ugly and only one built. I think I recall it was a high wing design. crashed and killed everybody aboard, seems I remember it being late thirties. TIA JD Do you mean this one? http://englishrussia.com/?p=2231 The second photo down is the actual picture of it. Also one towards the bottom of the page. Notice the rounded nacelles on the real one.The others are photo graphics. -- Anyolmouse |
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The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six engined
aircraft, the largest in the 1930s. The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed from the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. It also lifted a bar and buffet, film processing lab, and a movie theater, besides a laundry, a pharmacy and a printing press. This indicates that it was used above the more remote areas of the USSR, places that still did without the blessing of civilization. It was also fitted with loudspeakers. Lost in accident after pilot of escorting fighter started to loop around the wing and crushed into it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis; |
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"J.F." rudely blurted out
: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six engined aircraft, the largest in the 1930s. The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed from the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. It also lifted a bar and buffet, film processing lab, and a movie theater, besides a laundry, a pharmacy and a printing press. This indicates that it was used above the more remote areas of the USSR, places that still did without the blessing of civilization. It was also fitted with loudspeakers. Lost in accident after pilot of escorting fighter started to loop around the wing and crushed into it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis; Attachment decoded: untitled-2.txt ------=_NextPart_000_0181_01C99E9A.A4348F70 Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="Aeroflot_ANT-20bis.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Aeroflot_ANT-20bis.jpg" Attachment decoded: Aeroflot_ANT-20bis.jpg ------=_NextPart_000_0181_01C99E9A.A4348F70-- If not the UGLIEST, certainly the world's largest wheel pants! Gawd, using the men as measuring rules, the things are at least 11' tall and 8' wide! Without doing any research on this Antonov, I count 6 engines. Either a variant added 2 more or there are a pair of pushers not seen. Waddya think? Also, is that a fuel probe twixt #3 and the fuselage? |
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I did see one image that had 2 pushers mounted between the wings. I cannot
find it........... |
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"J.F." wrote in
: The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six engined aircraft, the largest in the 1930s. The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed from the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. The ANT-20 had 8 engines, the ANT-20bis had 6. -- |
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JD Cooper wrote:
looking for a picture of it. it was a Russian craft, had six engines (as I recall) had seats for passengers, very slow, very ugly and only one built. I think I recall it was a high wing design. crashed and killed everybody aboard, seems I remember it being late thirties. TIA JD There's a couple of unusual aircraft on this page. The one below the picture of the KA-7 http://www.funonthenet.in/articles/b...airplanes.html Graham |
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NO aircraft is ever ugly.
Regards, Herman "J.F." schreef in bericht ... The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six engined aircraft, the largest in the 1930s. The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed from the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. It also lifted a bar and buffet, film processing lab, and a movie theater, besides a laundry, a pharmacy and a printing press. This indicates that it was used above the more remote areas of the USSR, places that still did without the blessing of civilization. It was also fitted with loudspeakers. Lost in accident after pilot of escorting fighter started to loop around the wing and crushed into it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis; |
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J.F. wrote:
The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six engined aircraft, the largest in the 1930s. The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed from the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. It also lifted a bar and buffet, film processing lab, and a movie theater, besides a laundry, a pharmacy and a printing press. This indicates that it was used above the more remote areas of the USSR, places that still did without the blessing of civilization. It was also fitted with loudspeakers. Lost in accident after pilot of escorting fighter started to loop around the wing and crushed into it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks! I believe this one was what I was looking for. JD |
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