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Post by Slide on Sept 25, 2006 11:05:01 GMT -5
Can´t help posting this link in here, ´cause some modeler might feel inspired by this magnificent flying machine ;D www.rusring.net/~levin/levin3d/dz.htmIt´s a russian site and I don´t know what the words say, but if you are into airships and/or Jules Verne: Have a look!
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2006 12:09:02 GMT -5
That is beautiful. Wouldn't that be nice in GW3?
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Post by cptroyce on Sept 25, 2006 12:53:20 GMT -5
slide- where is the home page for that website..and what is the nature of the site? Fantasy? Jules Verne?
Royce
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Post by Slide on Sept 25, 2006 13:33:11 GMT -5
I am not sure, Royce. If I "move one up" to www.rusring.net/~levin/levin3d/ I find works of a man called Michael Levin. He must be some kind of 3-D artist. He is very good, I followed some of the links to the right. For example: www.rusring.net/~levin/k7/k777.htmwhich is a tremendous aircraft - with some old photos underneath which proof that this giant -partly- has been reality a long time ago!
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Post by bhk on Sept 25, 2006 15:50:09 GMT -5
..... - with some old photos underneath which proof that this giant -partly- has been reality a long time ago! Slide, I'm not quite sure that they are photographs........they look to be very good fakes. But isn't this guy a brilliant artist?! Wow! I love what he's created. Bruce
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Post by spad54 on Sept 25, 2006 16:18:40 GMT -5
My bet its a rendition of the ship from Masters of the World
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Post by Slide on Sept 25, 2006 17:25:15 GMT -5
Hi Bruce! Fakes? Hmm, good idea... Good fakes then! I could not find any fault in the pictures, but you are right, the man is brilliant. The Bolchewiki had some funny ideas about flying, I guess. ;D They built several Ilya-Muromez-like giant-planes. It´s a pity there is not much about it on the web. Deniss built some of them, maybe he knows? Who are the masters of the world?
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Post by leylandspurr on Sept 25, 2006 17:44:12 GMT -5
As far as I can see this is artwork based on 'proposed'aircraft. Both Kalinin and Tupolev built 'very large' aircraft in the USSR in the late 20s and early 30s. See Kalinin K-7 and Tuploev ANT-20 'Maxim Gorky' and there were proposals for even larger machines. This artwork seems most like the Tupolev ANT-26 (TB-6) proposal - theoretical figures: span 95m, t/o weight 70 tons, 12x900hp engines, but the twin-boom layout and large wheel covers are reminiscent of Kalinin so it might be a 'composite' created by the artist. The airship is interesting in that it looks like a reversal of the engineering principles we are used to, but might well be a valid idea. Interested to see if anyone can throw more light on this! (why is there never a russian-speaker around when you want one?). Leyland
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2006 18:02:16 GMT -5
Alexander Belov sometimes reads these forums. He is an expert on early Soviet aircraft and might shed some light if he sees this.
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Post by 314clipper on Sept 25, 2006 21:21:32 GMT -5
Incredible graphics! A glimpse ahead to FSGW4, as seen in FSXI??? ;D
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Post by cptroyce on Sept 25, 2006 22:53:46 GMT -5
Fascinating web pages!!
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Post by Slide on Sept 26, 2006 10:06:55 GMT -5
Fascinating A/C .... Bruce, it seems, that thing existed: Found at vintage-aviation.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ussr-1.htmlNamed Kalinin K-7, built in 1933, over 50m wingspan. And another one nobody would believe: Slesarev Sviatogor, Renault V-12 powered, from 1917. Ever seen something ugly like that? ;D
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Post by bhk on Sept 26, 2006 16:08:08 GMT -5
Slide, I stand corrected.
You're right - they are unbelieveable aircraft! What was going throught the minds of the designers back then? ;D
Bruce
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Post by Slide on Sept 26, 2006 16:19:51 GMT -5
Vodka, Bruce ;D Megatons of Vodka and the idea of an empire bigger than any other. I ride a heavy old russian sidecar and I know it´s ancestors ... sheer heart attack!
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Post by denniss on Sept 29, 2006 12:07:10 GMT -5
Hi, Guys, Yeah. Vodka and Socialism do funny things to people. I did a Gmax "Maksim Gorki," the one with the photo studio, printing press, radio station and movie theater aboard. It's over at flightsim.com library. I've been tempted by this other one, the one elevated on rectangular wheel spats, but it always seemed a bit too close to the "Gorki" in spirit. And, when you're building something, you stare at it so much that you want something different to stare at. By the way, Igor Sikorsky's "Russki Vityaz" is another of my Gmax madnesses. Barely ten years after the Wright Bros bounce a little, and he builds a four-engine airliner with its own loo even. Amazing. (It's over at flightsim.com as well.) Last, that Jules Verne airship has possibilities, doesn't it.... All in good fun. Dennis
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