ANT-20 "Maksim Gorky", A.N.Tupolev

Photo (36k) from Alexej Gretchihine's Russian Aviation Milestones;

T
he 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;
More Links...
  • ANT-20 "Maxim Gorki" at the Virtual Aircraft Museum
  • ANT-20 Maksim Gorky, Tupolev
  • DOO Flightsimulator page by Oleg Devjatkin;
  • Technical data
    Type ANT-20
    Function propaganda
    Year 1934
    Crew 10
    Engines 8*900hp Mikulin M-34FRN
    Wing span 63m
    Modified August 27, 1997
    by Alexandre Savine;
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