https://www.flickr.com/photos/shmr/8178343956/?rb=1
Model of ANT-26 (TB-6) ultraheavy bomber concept.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/shmr/8178343956/?rb=1
Model of ANT-26 (TB-6) ultraheavy bomber concept.
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[singsong nasal voice]"Oh Cliiiiiiiiiii-per!"[/voice]
Check THIS big bastard out! Kawanishi KX-03 concept... woulda been like two Spruce Geese wingtip to wingtip.
http://sta.sh/025tpg5dqcns
A littler something to look forward to after your convalescence I fancy Dave.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Hmmm the elves like the Ant-26/TB-6 enough to try it out. We are looking at some Russian drawings at the moment, looking at 1/200" scale, we are talking 7.675" long with a wingspan of 18.7" nice! And thanks for adding to my recovery!
Just remember... contrary to common reports, it is NOT "bigger than a B-52". Maybe TALLER, but in length and span, Advantage Boeing.
Here's the correction I sent TruthOrFiction that they couldn't be bothered to MAN UP and publish in all their Squeeing Stalinist Love:
Your source on the Kalinin K-7 (http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/k7bomber.htm) is just flat-out WRONG on some key dimensions. K-7's wingspan was 174' per your article, while the B-52 is 185'. Length, 91' K-7 vs. 160' B-52, again Advantage BUFF. As Adam & Jamie might say, "Myth... BUSTED."
MAYBE the K-7 wins on wing area, but I doubt it.
Also, you might want to contact the boys at Cracked.com and set them straight since they used you as a primary source and are thus spreading the error on this: http://www.cracked.com/article_18839...ying-them.html
Don't believe me, check the official USAF fact-sheet: http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/FactSheets...ofortress.aspx . Note: length difference from my citation caused by deleting of tail Gatling gun. But even if you go by the original design length of 157' 7" before the splicing in of a 40" plug and the redesign of the tail gun system to move the gunner up front, the B-52 is still NOTICEABLY longer than that Commie hunk of junk.
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Follow us down the rabbit hole if you dare . . .
http://scalemodels.ru/articles/6235-...t-26-tb-6.html
Good God, heaven exists!!! I love TB-3s but never saw a TB-6!!!! Imagine the Ratas "taking off" of that!!!
The Spruce Goose got off the water once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
Whether it would have been able to fulfill its intended role, I suspect we shall never know. However, the concept of a large troop transport aircraft has become reality.
It is possible to buy a 1/200 scale model kit of the Spruce Goose.
Frankly, I think the only reason the Goose didn't fly more was that Hughes built the entire bird as a giant flipoff to his critics, and only flew it JUST enough to prove his point.
Doesn't help that as soon as Hughes had conquered some challenge that caught his interest, whether taking to the air or taking to bed, it was immediately put behind him and onward to the Next Big Thing--like as soon as the chase was over, the fun was gone and boredom set in.
Something similar in 1/200. With ANT-20 "Maxim Gorki" in the family tree, a stretched Antonov would be a natural. Go for it!
Please note that Maxim Gorki was a famous writer and had nothing to do with pickles.
Ron
Do you use the historical stats, or the ones from the "The VERY Big Bird Job" episode of Leverage where the con involved portraying it as "a WWII stealth bomber"? LOL
Another attraction of the ANT-26. It would make an easy conversion to the ANT-28.
Have to check the files, but I have the odd memory trace that Fredy Martin Schultz in Berlin actually made one as a Castmaster (ie, cheap urethane) kit.
DB- Didn't the Big Bird scenario originate with Jim Henson?
Ron
Now there's a strange thing Dave.
Clipper at work already.
Come on chaps, fess up! Who won the sweepstake then.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Ron, we're not talking about the big yellow guy...
http://leverage.wikia.com/wiki/The_%...9_Big_Bird_Job
All very good planes, particularly like the Jap flyingboat!
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