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Post by clusterchuck on Jul 7, 2013 17:26:05 GMT -5
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Post by shred on Jul 7, 2013 18:10:01 GMT -5
Those pics are reproductions, but there was one built, unsurprisingly it crashed.
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Post by peteetongman on Jul 7, 2013 20:19:32 GMT -5
The Kalinin K-7 (Ukrainian: Калинін К-7) was a heavy experimental aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. It 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 thick (7 ft 7 in) 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, Nemecek states in his book that there was only one further pusher engine added;[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinin_K-7
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Post by shred on Jul 8, 2013 14:55:59 GMT -5
looks unwieldy and was probably highly unstable in flight, which is probably the reason for it's crash.
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