For those who haven’t yet seen it, Michael Specter’s recent New Yorker article on Putin’s Russia is a must-read.
Go here.
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Although the construction of over-sized planes has been a defining element of Russian aviation culture from the dawn of the air age (Il’ya Muromets) to the present day (Antonov An-225), Russia, of course, is hardly the only nation to have designed and built really big aircraft. The U.S. has had its fair share, too. (The [...]

…or, as the fellows from Monty Python would say, “Now for something completely different…”
“Woman Survives Being Locked Up in Barrel and Thrown Into Sea by Jealous Husband”
Fortunately it has a happy ending.
I think.
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It really is amazing what you can find on the Internet. While trolling YouTube a couple of days ago in search of aviation videos for a project on the history of flight culture, I discovered that someone has posted a documentary clip of the ANT-20 Maxim Gorky. The largest plane in the world when it [...]