HlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7 Reply 1, posted (10 years 5 months 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 3412 times:
While not a very well known WWII airplane there was the Messerschmitt Me323 a German aircraft with six props and a high wing. It had a ton of wheels- looks like ten wheels up front- 5 rows of 2, and then a tail wheel. Its take off weight was 95,000 lbs compared to the B17s 55,000lbs
A more popular aircraft that was a tail dragger and is larger than the B17 or C46 is the Lancaster which has a take off weight of 68,000
Spacepope From Vatican City, joined Dec 1999, 2744 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (10 years 5 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3392 times:
Some data for you-
German
He-177 max 68343
Ju-290B-2 max 111,332
He-111Z no info
Soviet
Petlyakov Pe-8 (M-30B) 73,469
British
S.29 Sterling V 70,000
Avro 683 Lancaster overlad to 70,000
American
B-17G 65,600
XB-19 no data
Looks like the germans have it in the bombers there.
HlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7 Reply 4, posted (10 years 5 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3378 times:
According to the picture that I have here, it shows a small rear wheel unless that was just to prevent a tail scrape on take off. I just have a drawing of the plane
RA-85154 From Netherlands, joined Sep 2001, 618 posts, RR: 3 Reply 6, posted (10 years 5 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 3316 times:
I am not an expert on WWII bombers, but otherwise the largest plane must be the Soviet Tupolev ANT-20 "Maksim Gor'kiy" from the 1930 ies, at that time the largest aircraft in the world. First flight was by M.M. Gromov on June 17th, 1934. Specifications from book Tupolev-the man and his aircraft
Accomodation: 8 crew / 72 passengers
Engines: 8 x 662hp M-34FRN
Length: 32,5 m
Height:11,2 m
Wingspan: 63 m (486m2)
Wheeltrack: 10.7 m
TO weight: 42 tonnes (53 tonnes maximum)
Empty weight: 28,5 tonnes
Max payload: 6,7 tonnes
Max range: 2000 km
max speed: 220 kph
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