Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: The most amazing airplane in history!!!

[Erik H. <er...@eh...>]

Curtis Olson wrote:
> Why don't we have this aircraft modeled for FlightGear???

I think we are short of one engine.

Erik

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>      The most amazing airplane in History....For the Airplane
>     Buffs                                                 
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>     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.
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>     Later, Stalin had Kalinin executed.
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>     Evidently, it was not good to fail on an expensive project under Stalin.
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>     It's got propellers on the back of the wings, too. You can count 12
>     engines facing front.
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>     The size would be equivalent to the Empire State Building on its
>     side, with cannons.
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>     And you think the 747 was big... not only a bunch of engines but
>     check out the cannons the thing was carrying.
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>     Can you imagine what it would be like sitting in this thing when
>     those cannons go off?
>     In the 1930s the Russian army was obsessed by the idea of creating
>     huge planes.
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>     At that time they were proposed to have as many propellers as
>     possible to help carrying those huge flying fortresses into the air,
>     jet propulsion has not been implemented yet.
>     Not many photos were saved from those times because of the high
>     secrecy levels of such projects and because a lot of time has
>     already passed.
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>     Looks like something out of a Jules Verne novel. 
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> Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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