GIANT AEROPLANES
SIXTEEN TO BE BUILT BY SOVIET
(Received July 6, 2 p.m.) . MOSCOW, July 5. . The Soviet is building sixteen aero planes similar to the Maxim Gorky. The public subscribed £6,800,000 towards the cost. The Maxim Gorky crashed at the Moscow aerodrome on May 19 when the machine's forty-seven occupants were killed. The Maxim Gorky was the world's biggest aeroplane, and on May 19 the Soviet notified that it intended to construct three similar machines identical with the Maxim Gorky, one to be similarly named. .The other two were to be-named Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 10
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