The vintage giant airplanes of pulp fiction still evoke a certain fascination of their stupendous size that seemed to fuel dreams of daring-do and glamour.
The closest aviation history came to realizing this ludicrous pulp-fiction dream was Dornier Do X flying super-boat:
The largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world - made by Germany in 1929, nicknamed The Flugschiff. It was "The Flying Ship", indeed, or rather a small airborne island with a crew of 14 and capacity for more than a hundred passengers.
Total worship of technology, the "bigger, the better" attitude.
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