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The Soviet Union's First All Metal Airplane

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 14 November 2007 11:08:00 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

Seventy five years ago this month, the Soviet Union introduced its first all-metal airplane, the Tupolev ANT-14. Built of noncorrosive steel by the Central Aero-Hydro Dynamic Institute for use on the Moscow-Vladivostok air route, the 36-passenger plane had a wingspan of 134 ft. 6

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