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carry 150 passengers, but it took her 10 months to fly from

There was Claudius Dornier's big Do-X of 1929 which could

really big dreams (100 + passengers) ever actually went into

and America, but only a handful were ever built, and none of the

there were a number of big transport aircraft designed in Europe

Between the wars-in addition to the dreadful 'Capronisimo' -

but never really bore fruit until after the Second World War.

dream of huge transports capable of carrying large numbers of passengers found fertile ground in many countries,

This is a large project planned for sometime in the future. Please no email asking when.

by the small-diameter propellers and ungeared engines. The aircraft test flights over Kharkov

way the huge aircraft handled, except for the instability and vibration, which was found to be caused

On its first flight, on August 11, 1933, the pilots reported that they were generally content with the

believed that the way to impress the rest of the world was to build aircraft bigger than anyone else's.

The K-7 was yet another example of the aviation policy dictated by the infant Soviet regime, which

The K-7's very brief first flight showed up instability and serious vibration caused by the airframe resonating with the engine frequency. The solution to this 'flutter' was thought to be to shorten and strengthen the tail booms, little being known then about the natural frequencies of structures and their response to vibration. On the eleventh flight, during a speed test, the port tail boom vibrated, fractured, jammed the elevator and caused the giant aircraft to plunge to the ground, killing 15.

edge and one pushing at the rear.

than the and a much greater wing area, the K-7 was one of the biggest aircraft built before the jet age. It was only one engine short of the B-52 as well, having the curious arrangement of six pulling on the wing leading

Designed by World War I aviator Konstantin Kalinin with a wingspan greater

Kalinin K-7 Russian Giant Transport/Bomber

Kalinin K-7 Russian Gigantic Bomber