Can someone identify this plane ?

Post by **ElcoB** » 19 Sep 2006, 22:14

Sombody emailed this picture to me.
Only things I know: it's a Russian plane from around 1932 and it did testflights before it crashed.
Sombody has an idea what plane this is ?

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 19 Sep 2006, 22:51

I believe its a Tupolev ANT-20 of which there was only one! commonly called the Maxim Gorky, widely used for propaganda flights. If I remember my old books it crashed during an aerial demonstration, killing about 60-70 people

KT

Post by **ElcoB** » 19 Sep 2006, 23:25

bits44 wrote:I believe its a Tupolev ANT-20 ...........
KT

Thanks for the quick response but according toWIKEPEDIA the AN-20 is different as the one in my picture.

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 20 Sep 2006, 02:45

You are correct! a better picture shows more detail, I believe that its a ANT-20bis a derivative model.

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/APS/2678.htm

Bilboone · Post by **Bilboone** » 20 Sep 2006, 09:33

Maybe Tupolev ANT-26 named as TB-6 ? 12 engines, wingspan of 95 meter. But for me this picture doesn't look real, more like CGI.

Ilyushin · Post by **Ilyushin** » 20 Sep 2006, 13:43

Looks like CGI to me too, though its configuration seems to be based on the Kalinin K-7. As far as I know, all Tupolev aircraft from that era (1930's) were taildraggers, which rules them out.

www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/k7giant.html

Post by **ElcoB** » 20 Sep 2006, 14:59

Ilyushin wrote:Looks like CGI to me too, though its configuration seems to be based on the Kalinin K-7. As far as I know, all Tupolev aircraft from that era (1930's) were taildraggers, which rules them out.

www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/k7giant.html

Woeha, yes ; this is a CGI based on the K-7.

Your link was excellent.
Another one telling the story of Kostyantyn Kalinin.

And PICTURES.