Kalinin K - 7

in the era of biplanes colleenin applied the Flying Wing scheme Innovative for its time in the thick wing of the central plane there were passenger cabins the seven engine giant was to carry 128 passengers for 5 000 kilometers or for the same distance 64 passengers and Deluxe cabins on board were a stateroom a cafeteria a kitchen a radio room and working telephone service the airplane was built on the all in the wing principle this allowed the mechanics of the airplane to approach a working engine in flight passengers had an overview of the flying terrain through the window illuminators in the bomber version the airplane was a Flying Fortress the defense of armament consisted of eight 20 millimeter cannons and 8769 millimeter machine guns an electric cart was used to move Gunners to the rear machine guns which moved along cables inside the tail boom bombing equipment was located in the wing The Landing version of the plane was designed to carry 112 paratroopers consideration was given to transporting a tank Wing eight tons or other equipment dropped on parachutes which was attached between the undercarriage carts the plane was for its time the largest in the Soviet Union and so huge that it was called in the Press air gospram it was not used in the Air Force or civil aviation the first plane crashed during a maximum speed test on November 21st 1933 K7 like many planes of the time suffered from flutter the theory to combat it had not yet been developed so test pilots nigeriav intuitively struggled with flutter by changing the mode of operation of seven engines but this did not save the plane and 15 of the 20 people on board during maximum speed tests the plane crashed two revised samples were not completed so now an idea of the design and appearance of the K7 can only be gleaned from surviving technical documentation photographs and memories of test participants and eyewitnesses

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Published: Thu Apr 20 2023