A stunt pilot doing loops around the Soviet propaganda megaplane crashed into it, killing 45
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76N69)
On May 18, 1935, the Maxim Gorky - the largest aircraft in the world, a Soviet eight-engine behemoth with a 63-meter wingspan roughly equal to a modern Boeing 747 - took off over Moscow alongside three smaller aircraft. The smaller planes were there to make the size difference obvious from the ground. - Read the rest
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