PROPAGANDA IN THE AIR
BIGGEST AEROPLANE IN WORLD
SOVIET EXPERIMENT
(Received April 23, 9.20 p.m.) MOSCOW, April 23. The eight-motored propaganda aeroplane Maxim Gorki, the largest aeroplane in the world, has been completed. It carries a printing press, a cinema, and broadcasting apparatus. Its 60 passengers include announcers, journalists, cartoonists, photographers, and actors for propaganda plays to "spread the light in backward areas." [The plan for the Mnxim Gorki provided for complete apparatus, including photographic darkrooms and process-engraving plant, for producing an illustrated newspaper and talking films in the air. The Soviet aircraft industry hoped that the success of this aeroplane would recover the prestige lost in the crash of the last Russian giant aeroplane—smaller than this, but still a monster.l
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 11
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