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I wonder if they cloned it complete with the message?

• netsharc 5y ago
  I guess your question refers to the cloned B-29 where a US factory worker made a wrong rivet hole and this hole was cloned by the Soviets? https://aviationhumor.net/soviet-b-29-clone-the-tupolev-tu-4-with-a-very-small-unnecessary-hole/ https://aviationhumor.net/soviet-b-29-clone-the-tupolev-tu-4...
  • blamazon 5y ago
    A parable on Stalinist management technique: "'What kind of stars should be put on the mass-produced aircraft – white American stars or red Soviet ones? If you put white stars, you risked being shot as an enemy of the people. If you put red, first, it will not be a copy, and second maybe Stalin is planning to use the bombers against America, England or China, and therefore keep the American markings.’ The question went all the way up to Stalin himself: Beria (NKVD chief, in charge of B-29 duplication project) ‘told Stalin about the stars as if it were a funny story and that by the way in which Stalin laughed at the joke, Beria knew unerringly which stars should be used. The last problem was solved and mass-production started…’”
• retrac 5y ago
  Alas Communism fell before they could get that far! And they would have been better off using German. The Russian message was first added to the '87 CVAX. But Robotron (an East German company) had only just started their first runs [1] of the '85 MicroVAX 78032 clone in 1990 when the company was liquidated. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U80701 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U80701