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Old March 10th 09, 01:39 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
JD Cooper[_5_]
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Default ugly airplane question

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

JD