I’m not sure what you mean. It was constructed, and it did fly. It’s a Kalinin K-7, and it flew on August 11, 1933. On November 21 of that same year, it crashed and all 14 crew and passengers were killed as well as one additional person on the ground. But it did fly.
Interesting… given the whimsical nature of the page I thought it just got to the planning stages.
Someone apparently made a scale model of it, which is seen in some of those photos along with the Nazi UFO (which, I presume, was never actually built.) For all of its faults, the Soviet Union was very innovative in the field of aviation. They developed all kinds of unique aircraft like the Ekranoplan.
That thing is an art deco masterpiece. Simply beautiful.
The K-7 was a real aeroplane, but that model is not a model of the K-7 it’s about 10 x the size, there was no real version of the model.
I would think you need a treadmill runway
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That’s a seriously ugly plane.
And being innovative, the Russians (not Soviets) built round battleships. They weren’t very successful.
I’ve seen these before on various aeroplane/flying forums. the K-7 was real the cgi pics are someones idea of a scaled up passenger liner version and a sky battleship version.
Adding naval guns would add hundreds of tonnes of weight far beyong the capacity of any aircraft to carry. And the drag imposed by the postioning of the guns would also be considerable meaning the aircraft would be flying at just above stalling speed. Firing those guns would push the aircraft backwards and see it come to a complete stop in mid air.
From the OP’s link, the drawing at the top and the picture below it are two different airplanes.
From the drawing it appears that there are two sets of engines. Stacked so to say. And at least eight engines mounted low. And two more above the wing. Also, the ‘Cockpit’ is hugh compared to the real K-7. I’d say the artists conseption from the link did not fly. But a smaller version did.
Ah, yes, the Novgorod and Rear Admiral Popov. I suppose with modern computer controls, such ships might be somewhat more useable, but it’s a still a goofy idea.
Sounds like a scaled up version of one of these, and about as maneuverable as well.
If you’re going to have my username, stop having views opposite of mine :p.