What the hell is this old aircraft?! Eric?

[Driller]

Edited by Driller on Tuesday 25th January 13:33

[nonplussed]

It's a Kalinin K-7. Hang on, let me find a link with some more info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinin_K-7

The above pic is a visualisation, not the real thing. Very few pictures exist of it, but it's a pre-WW2 heavy bomber. Didn't take off (neither literally nor figuratively) and has been largely forgotten I think.

Edited by nonplussed on Tuesday 25th January 13:37

[thatone1967]

nonplussed said:

It's a Kalinin K-7. Hang on, let me find a link with some more info.

Did it ever actually fly?

[DrTre]

It's a computer generated image isn't it?

[nonplussed]

thatone1967 said:

nonplussed said:

It's a Kalinin K-7. Hang on, let me find a link with some more info.

Did it ever actually fly?

Click the link in my post. It did, but not particularly successfully

[Eric Mc]

Those pictures crop up from time to time. It was a real aeroplane but those images have been heavilly doctored to make the aircraft look more impressive than it really was. The Russians have always had an infatuation with monster aeroplanes.

[SplatSpeed]

i like the nuclear bombers

americans thought the shielding weighed too mucha and would contaminate the atmosphere

the russians didn't worry about that and fried their crews

[Zad]

Not doctored, totally synthetically modelled and rendered.

[Simpo Two]

I thought it was built/comuter-generated for a film. It's patently obvious that a few little propellors are not going to drag half a battleship into the sky.

Edited by Simpo Two on Tuesday 25th January 15:01

[SplatSpeed]

Simpo Two said:

I thought it was built/comuter-generated for a film. It's patently obvious that a few little propellors are not going to drag half a battleship into the sky.

Edited by Simpo Two on Tuesday 25th January 15:01

that dosn't stop an engineering project!

[Streps]

Edited by Streps on Tuesday 25th January 15:25

[davepoth]

And here's another amusingly large russian plane.

[Driller]

Thanks for all the info everyone, fascinating stuff!