The largest biplane ever built. Made by the former USSR for equipment transport. Taken at the 2006 Wings Over Gillespie airshow at Gillespie Field, El Cajon, CA.

The largest biplane ever built. Made by the former USSR for equipment transport. Taken at the 2006 Wings Over Gillespie airshow at Gillespie Field, El Cajon, CA.


Cool shot, great exposure. But I think a wider angle lens would have shown the size of that thing better.

I saw one of those at the Cherry Point Sounds Of Freedom Airshow a couple of years ago. It is a BIG biplane! It amzed me that it was a single engine. And it takes off, and can cruise, at a ridiculously low speed as well.

Thanks, Speed, for the comment. I shot many, many perspectives of this plane to try and capture the amazing wing span and the spars of the biplane but nothing came out as well as this shot. I wanted to depict the incredible size and unfortunately this perspective leaves the viewer to imagine wing span. Thanks for the comments though, I appreciate it. And you are correct, the slow flight configuration is just incredible and fun to see.

CF