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The Tu-104, Tu-114, Tu-124, Tu-134, Tu-154, Tu-204 and the Tu-204-300 made their first passenger flights from this airport, and the first jetliner, Tupolev's Tu-104KB, the monument to which was ...
The Tupolev Tu-144 was the Soviet's answer to Concorde, but a crash at the 1973 Paris Airshow was just one problem that befell the troubled airliner ...
But the Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University (500 miles east of Moscow) has really taken the biscuit: The nose of a Tupolev Tu-124 aircraft is welded directly to the front of one ...
Tupolev produced reconnaissance drones like the Tu-143 during the Cold War, but they were of a type only barely legible as drones today. Lacking pilots and live video feeds, the drones flew preset ...
Tupolev's engines power two sets of 18-foot-long blades that spin in opposite directions; this makes them more efficient but also creates enormous noise. The Tu-95 is considered to be the noisiest ...
The Tupolev Aircraft Company (part of the United Aircraft Corporation) confirmed on Wednesday it was testing the second prototype of the heavily upgraded Tu-22M3M long-range missile-carrying ...