Believe it Or Not ? :: The Russian Flying Fortress

[Chanakyaa]

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Looks awesome!
But did it fly? or was it another 'spruce goose'!

 

[Jazzbot]

looks gaint..
but would be interesting to see its pics in air..

 

[prototype]

@xinix
rename it as feel the might-The Russian flying fortress

 

[Chanakyaa]

@xinix
rename it as feel the might-The Russian flying fortress

ha ha....
i reserved the feel... series for india related articles only....

 

[M8R]

Waste of money - A single shot of AIM120 or AIM9 will take it out.

 

[Frankenstein]

I can see some guns aswel, multi purpose flying fortress , I wish we had this in Mughal period, imagine Akbar on the flying fortress

 

[praveen007]

few more of them

Russian Tank-Ship-Plane

 

[praveen007]

 

[praveen007]

real jet engine(train)

 

[Markus]

These machines belong to Cold war period.

Just spectacular Soviet engineering capability on display in the pics !!!

 

[praveen007]

plane in the wall

the mighty tank

 

[Frankenstein]

was it ever Airborne ??

 

[jha]

These spectacular projects lead to fall of soviet union...trying to make something unique and using taxpayers money to fund these reached maniacal level in the last 15 years of soviet era..

 

[gubbi]

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Xinix, only the above two pics are real pictures of the aircraft. The rest of the pictures are PS'ed.

Heres what is known about that aircraft:

Kalinin K-7

Kalinin K-7 (Russian: Калинин К-7) was a heavy experimental aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. K-7 was of unusual configuration with twin booms and large underwing pods housing fixed landing gear and machine gun turrets. In the passenger version, seats were arranged inside the 2.3 meter (7 ft 7 in) thick wings. The airframe was welded from KhMA chrome-molybdenum steel. The original design called for six engines in the wing leading edge but when the projected loaded weight was exceeded, two more engines were added to the trailing edges of each wing, one right and one left of the central passenger pod.[1] However V. Nemecek states in his book, The History of Soviet Aircraft from 1918, that there was only one further pusher engine added; this agrees with the specification supplied below.
K-7 first flew on 11 August 1933. Then on 21 November 1933 the aircraft crashed due to structural failure of one of the tail booms, killing 14 people aboard and one on the ground. Although two more prototypes were ordered in 1933, the project was cancelled in 1935 before they could be completed.[1]
[edit]Specifications (K-7)

Data from Shavrov 1985[1]
General characteristics
Crew: minimum 11
Capacity: 120 passengers in civilian configuration
Length: 28 m (91 ft 10 in)
Wingspan: 53 m (173 ft 11 in)
Height: ()
Wing area: 454 m² (4,886.8 ft²)
Empty weight: 24,400 kg (53,793 lb)
Loaded weight: 38,000 kg (83,776 lb)
Powerplant: 7× Mikulin AM-34F V-12 piston engines, 560 kW (750 hp) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 225 km/h (121 knots, 140 mph)
Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,123 ft)
Wing loading: 84 kg/m² (17 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 103 W/kg (0.06 hp/lb)