Russian Flying Fortress

[Fearless Egbert]

I've just had these pictures e-mailed to me. The cannons on the third picture are pressumably photo shopped and all pictures have been messed with a fair bit, but did it ever exist or is it completely made up for some film or something like that?

Some of the speil that came with it goes "Built in Russia during the 1930s, it flew 11 times before crashing and killing 15 people.

The designer, Konstantin Kalinin, wanted to build two more planes but the project was scrapped.

Later, Stalin had Kalinin executed.

Evidently, it was not good to fail on an expensive project under Stalin.

It’s got propellers on the back of the wings, too. You can count 12 engines facing front.

The size would be equivalent to the Empire State Building on its side, with cannons."

[Eric Mc]

Posted many, many times on PH. It's a photoshopped exaggeration of a genuine Russian aircarft (which was a complete failure).

[Eric Mc]

Kalinin K-7



Impressive for its day but like all giant aircraft of that era, woefully underpowered and therefore useless.

[fatboy69]

Woefuuly underpowered & therefore useless? Reminds me of my Austin Allegro Equipe!!!!!

[Fearless Egbert]

Eric Mc said:

Posted many, many times on PH. It's a photoshopped exaggeration of a genuine Russian aircarft (which was a complete failure).

I thought as much. I guess the e-mail does the rounds and every so often lands on the desk of a PHer thats not seen it before.

[Eric Mc]

Fearless Egbert said:

Eric Mc said:

Posted many, many times on PH. It's a photoshopped exaggeration of a genuine Russian aircarft (which was a complete failure).

I thought as much. I guess the e-mail does the rounds and every so often lands on the desk of a PHer thats not seen it before.

Aye - it's the way of the virtual world.