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On Mar 28, 10:35*am, "A. Baum" wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:26:48 -0700, Harry K wrote:
On Mar 28, 3:32*am, The Daring Dufas
wrote:
On 3/28/2011 2:12 AM, harry wrote:


On Mar 27, 9:02 pm, *wrote:
On Mar 25, 9:30 pm, "Steve *wrote:


Driving northward past Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and coming
straight at us on final southerly approach, a C-130. *Unknown if
just a cargo carrier, or a Spooky, but one big fat slow beautiful
airplane. *My wife saw it first and quipped, "What the hell is
that?" *It takes a lot to get her attention. I just said it was a
weapons platform that you would not want looking for you.


Steve


In the true spirit of home repair topics slightly OT, by all means
Google 'Antonov 225' and get some views of the world's largest
aircraft. Fortunately, used for cargo work as far as we know.


Joe


I thought the "Spruce Goose" was still the world's largest aircraft?


Best comparison I've seen at a very cool site:


http://www.asb.tv/blog/2011/02/worlds-largest-aircraft/


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I recall an inflight picture of a huge 1930s era Soviet bomber with
mltiple engines mounted IIRC on top of the wing. *So far all I have been
able to turn up is:


http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/k7bomber.htm


Which is nowhere as big as I recall and the engines are wrong.


Harrry K


Unfortunately the k7 link contains drawings, but I guess you knew that. *- Hide quoted text -

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??? so? Is that supposed to mean something?

Harry K