re: #176 ObserverArt
I was doing a little reading after seeing the posts here on the aircraft. Freaking wingspan was almost 70 yards wide (60 meters)…108 feet long (33 meters). Yeah that was a lot to keep in the sky.
Tupolev seriously considered an even larger development, the ANT-26 bomber and -28 airliner. These would have had 12 engines, a wingspan of 311 feet, and a length of 128 feet. A prototype was started but never completed or flown.