ugly airplane question

[JD Cooper[_5_]]

looking for a picture of it. it was a Russian craft, had six engines (as
I recall) had seats for passengers, very slow, very ugly and only one
built. I think I recall it was a high wing design. crashed and killed
everybody aboard, seems I remember it being late thirties.

TIA

JD

[Anyolmouse]

"JD Cooper" > wrote in message
...
> looking for a picture of it. it was a Russian craft, had six engines
(as
> I recall) had seats for passengers, very slow, very ugly and only one
> built. I think I recall it was a high wing design. crashed and killed
> everybody aboard, seems I remember it being late thirties.
>
> TIA
>
> JD

Do you mean this one? http://englishrussia.com/?p=2231 The second
photo down is the actual picture of it. Also one towards the bottom of
the page. Notice the rounded nacelles on the real one.The others are
photo graphics.

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Anyolmouse

[J.F.]

The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six engined
aircraft, the largest in the 1930s.

The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed from
the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. It also lifted a bar and buffet,
film processing lab, and a movie theater, besides a laundry, a pharmacy and
a printing press. This indicates that it was used above the more remote
areas of the USSR, places that still did without the blessing of
civilization. It was also fitted with loudspeakers.
Lost in accident after pilot of escorting fighter started to loop around the
wing and crushed into it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis;

[Lee[_2_]]

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> The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a
> Soviet six engined aircraft, the largest in the 1930s.
>
> The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane,
> developed from the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers.
> It also lifted a bar and buffet, film processing lab, and a
> movie theater, besides a laundry, a pharmacy and a printing
> press. This indicates that it was used above the more
> remote areas of the USSR, places that still did without the
> blessing of civilization. It was also fitted with
> loudspeakers. Lost in accident after pilot of escorting
> fighter started to loop around the wing and crushed into
> it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis;
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If not the UGLIEST, certainly the
world's largest wheel pants!

Gawd, using the men as measuring
rules, the things are at least
11' tall and 8' wide!

Without doing any research on this
Antonov, I count 6 engines.
Either a variant added 2 more or
there are a pair of pushers not seen.
Waddya think? Also, is that a fuel
probe twixt #3 and the fuselage?

[J.F.]

I did see one image that had 2 pushers mounted between the wings. I cannot
find it...........

[John Godwin]

"J.F." > wrote in
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> The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet
> six engined aircraft, the largest in the 1930s.
>
> The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane,
> developed from the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers.

The ANT-20 had 8 engines, the ANT-20bis had 6.


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[TacAN]

JD Cooper wrote:
> looking for a picture of it. it was a Russian craft, had six engines (as
> I recall) had seats for passengers, very slow, very ugly and only one
> built. I think I recall it was a high wing design. crashed and killed
> everybody aboard, seems I remember it being late thirties.
>
> TIA
>
> JD

There's a couple of unusual aircraft on this page.

The one below the picture of the KA-7

http://www.funonthenet.in/articles/biggest-airplanes.html

Graham

[Herman]

NO aircraft is ever ugly.

Regards,
Herman

"J.F." > schreef in bericht
...
> The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six
> engined
> aircraft, the largest in the 1930s.
>
> The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed from
> the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. It also lifted a bar and
> buffet,
> film processing lab, and a movie theater, besides a laundry, a pharmacy
> and
> a printing press. This indicates that it was used above the more remote
> areas of the USSR, places that still did without the blessing of
> civilization. It was also fitted with loudspeakers.
> Lost in accident after pilot of escorting fighter started to loop around
> the
> wing and crushed into it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis;
>

[JD Cooper[_5_]]

J.F. wrote:
> The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six
> engined aircraft, the largest in the 1930s.
>
> The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed
> from the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. It also lifted a bar
> and buffet, film processing lab, and a movie theater, besides a laundry,
> a pharmacy and a printing press. This indicates that it was used above
> the more remote areas of the USSR, places that still did without the
> blessing of civilization. It was also fitted with loudspeakers.
> Lost in accident after pilot of escorting fighter started to loop around
> the wing and crushed into it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis;
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

Thanks! I believe this one was what I was looking for.

JD