Tupolev Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/tupolev/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:20:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://aviospace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/463575282_2477404082464408_3209599391009761950_n-150x150.jpg Tupolev Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/tupolev/ 32 32 Tupolev TU-104: Stepping stone in the USSR aviation history https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-104-stepping-stone-in-ussr-aviation-history/ https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-104-stepping-stone-in-ussr-aviation-history/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:58:51 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=9525 The story of the Tupolev Tu-104, USSR’s first jetliner, goes hand in hand with its arch, or should we say, its only rival (albeit, only initially), the deHavilland Comet. In May 1952, Britain had introduced the de Havilland DH106 Comet – the world’s first jetliner – into passenger service. Amidst the elan, tragedy followed. A […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-104-stepping-stone-in-ussr-aviation-history/feed/ 0 Tupolev Tu-144 – The Soviet Concorde: Why the Supersonic Jet Failed? https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-144-soviet-concorde-failure-story/ https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-144-soviet-concorde-failure-story/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:37:47 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=9446 The name is Tupolev Tu-144. In Russian, you’d call it Туполев Ту-144. The NATO reporting name for the Tu-144 is “Charger”. You might have other labels thrown at it: Concordski or the communist Concorde. For NASA, it was “a supersonic flying laboratory”. Given that the Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic airliner to take to […]

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