Built in Russia during the 1930s, the K-7 heavy bomber 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 for his trouble. Evidently, it was not the done thing to fail on an expensive project under Stalin . It has propellers rear of the wings, too. You can count 12 engines facing forward. The wingspan would be equivalent to the Empire State Building on its side...but with cannons - rather big ones at that. In the pre-jet age of the 1930s, the Russian army was obsessed by the idea of creating huge planes. Not many photos were saved from those times because of the high secrecy levels of such projects...
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:23:10 +0000
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