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https://wowsl.co/44LIo2rThis was meant to be a 20 minute video, but it snowballed into a 1 hour mini-lecture about this insane monstrosity: the Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky - enjoy, Comrades!
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Tupolev Aircraft Since 1922; Bill Gunston; Naval Institute Press
OBK Tupolev - A History of the Design Beureau and its Aircraft; Yefim Gordon, Vladimir Rigmant; Midland Publishing; 2005
Владимир Котельников (2011) Максим rорькнй [Russian language book on the Maxim Gorky, highly recommended, translating is a pain though]
Tupolev The Man and His Aircraft; Paul Duffy, Andrei Kandalov; SAE International; 1996
The crash of the PS-124 of the Uzbek Department of the Civil Air Fleet in the Tashkent region
https://airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=2390Various Articles from 'Flight' magazine and Popular Mechanics from the 1930s, available on the Internet Archive.
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/cw1/ant20.html [Good page that sites some non-western sources]
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/cw1/ant20b.html [Good page that sites some non-western sources]
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0:00 An Insane Intro for an Insane Aircraft
10:57 Why Was This Thing Built In The First Place?
15:58 How It Was Built (A rare case of 1930s Soviet Unity)
26:10 LITERALLY 10 MINUTES OF TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
36:30 How The ANT-20 Spread Soviet Propaganda
40:37 The Part Where Everything Goes Very Wrong, Very Quickly
45:30 Giant Propaganda Plane 2.0 (Minus the propaganda part)
48:42 And Then It All Got Worse
53:08 The ANT-20bis, nobody wanted it
57:06 How It Was Lost In The Most Ridiculous Circumstances