Made this due to a challenge to make one weird plane out of a set of 5 aircraft. I chose this one. It requires a little bit of skill to fly due to the low speed of it, and it has to be flown at an angle of attack in order to fly straight.

Quote from the picture:

"SNUD U-14 MILITARY TRANSPORT The bent fuselage of the Snud U -l4 stood for many years as a Soviet secret; only alter the last example of this little-known type had safely crashed was it revealed. During the design stage in 1938. a blueprint had been wrinkled accidentally and because nobody would own up to responsibil- ity—since damaging state property carried the death penalty—the mistake went unchecked and into production. As a work -horse transport aircraft, this behemoth of the blue, with its four Kapodny-Gifk engines, each producing 400 hp. and its vast cargo capacity, "had everything." Unusual features were tiny cockpits on each wing, where an engi- neer sat supervising the engines, and solid pig -iron wheels. These last ingeniously skirted the Russian rubber short- age, but caused another problem; reports claim the locomotive -style wheels so badly chewed up even paved landing strips that bringing a Snud to earth meant maximum risk to plane, crew and all nearby buildings and collective farms. Obliquely, this may explain the Soviet insistence that a Snud had set a world record for nonstop flight in 1941 —staying aloft over 64 hours while traveling nearly 3500 miles and averaging over 54 mph—and also why the pilot and navigator were transported to Siberia immediately after landing and receiving the Order of Heavy Industry."