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Posted by Katy R (U14748743) on Friday, 16th September 2011
Morning morning,
Good to see a lengthy quiz thread from last week!
Hereβs this weekβs teaserβ¦
Which aeroplane held a record for carrying 16 passengers (in βluxuryβ), before being used as a heavy bomber? And when was that record set?
Katy
Originally I was thinking of Tnte Ju, the 1932 Junkers 52/3m, but I suspect we should be going back a little further - to 1914 and Sikorsky's "Ilya Muromets"
Focke Wolfe 200, flew Berlin to New York non stop in 1938, then became the "Scourge of the Atlantic" in WWII?
Not sure Condor (2000 ilbs?) nor Iron Annie (3000 lbs?) bomb loads would rate them as "heavy" rather than "medium" bombers, though - that's why I decided against the Ju 52.
Drat - thought i had you there for a moment!
You're right though Ur-Legal. I was thinking of the Sikorsky Ilya Muromets and it was 1914.
It was a heavy bomber during WW1.
I know its Wikipedia, but it does list some of the luxury items available to passengers, although frankly the whole thing sounds terrifying to me...
See you all next week
OK. So which aircraft, pre-WWII, was equipped with "a powerful radio transmitter (known as the βVoice of the Skyβ), a printing press, a photographic laboratory, and a projector to screen films for isolated rural audiences. Rows of lights located underneath the wings enabled the crew to display electronic text messages to spectators on the ground."
Till I saw the reference to wings I thought this must be an airship like the R-101. The only thing I can think of that might have had such bells and whistles would be WR Hearst's plane, the ????Goose?, but that didn't fly very far, did it?
Spruce Goose? 'Fraid not - earlier than that.
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Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 16th September 2011
Some kind of adapted flying boat, a Catalina maybe?
Sorry, not a Catalina nor any other sort of flying boat.
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Posted by CASSEROLEON (U11049737) on Saturday, 17th September 2011
Not the faintest idea of make etc.. But what about the Nazi plane featured in the propaganda film called something like "Wings over Germany": or perhaps- as that one was filmed- the plane from which it was filmed..
The plane used by a couple of film-makers to fly the whole length of Africa- landing on suitable flat grassy terrain - seemed to carry not only camera's to film the people and wild-life- but I think also entertained "the natives" with views of the wider world- and filmed their reactions. But seems too small to fit all this descriptive.
Cass
Which other nation was big on propaganda at that time?
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Posted by Vizzer aka U_numbers (U2011621) on Saturday, 17th September 2011
The Soviet Union?
(Technically speaking not a 'nation' as such but a union of states comprising several nations.)
OK - now you know where it came from - so who is likely to have designed and built it?
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Posted by Vizzer aka U_numbers (U2011621) on Saturday, 17th September 2011
Sikorsky again?
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Posted by CASSEROLEON (U11049737) on Saturday, 17th September 2011
Not Eisenstein for film making.. using the text messages to control large-scale scenes?
Cass
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Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Saturday, 17th September 2011
I've no idea about the plane or who built it but was it to do with the promotion of collectivisation? it sounds like one of Uncle Joe's typically megalomaniac schemes and given the distances and your descriptions it might fit.
After the main collectivisations - but yes, it does smack of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili - but it was specifically intended to commemorate an author, after which it was named. BTW - Antonov rather than Sikorsky, although a number of other design groups were involved to get it completed on time.
The aircraft was an Ant-20 (one of two) named after Maxim Gorky. Anyone else ever suffer the films of his autobiography?
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