BIGGEST LAND ’PLANE
CLAIMED BY SOVIET. BUILT FOR 36 PASSENGERS. MOSCOW, November 14. Progress in Soviet aviation may be judged from a giant new multimotored plane, the ANT-1.4, which has successfully completed Its trials and man will be put Into large-scale proluction. The ANT 14 —claimed hero to 'be the largest land plane in the world—is a five-motored high-wing all-metal monoplane, it carries thirty-six pas,angers with their baggage and a five-man crew.
Tlio plane 'itself Is entirely of .Soviet construction, made of duralumin produced In Soviet plants. The motors are British Jupiter 6s, made in -Russia under special license. Kacli had 4SO horsepower, delivering 2400 horsepower altogether. Later Hie Russians intend to build more powerful motors of their own design.
One motor is mounted in the nose and the other four are In the loading edge of the whig. The propellers ,vc of the two-bladed tractor tjpe.
The plane is eighty-six feet long and twenty-seven high, and Its tapered wing has a span of 131 feet. The distance between the wheels and landing gear is seventeen and onehalf feet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18521, 29 December 1931, Page 3
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