Tupolev Collection (#3)

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A N Tupolev ANT-9 (forward view) taxying of URSS-309

Tupolev Tu-144 (forward view) landing of CCCP -68001

Interior of Tu-144 supersonic airliner
Supersonic flight. Interior of a Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner. The Tu-144, known to NATO as Charger, first flew on 31 December 1968, two months before the Anglo-French Concorde

Soviet bomber with parasite fighters 1935
Soviet Aviamatka (airborne mothership) with its parasite aircraft in flight. The large aircraft is a Tupolev TB-3 four-engined heavy bomber

Tupolev Tu-144, first supersonic airliner
First supersonic airliner. A Tupolev Tu-144 airliner in flight. The Tu-144, known to NATO as Charger, first flew on 31 December 1968, two months before the Anglo-French Concorde

A stewardess and passengers aboard a tu-114 airliner (at the time, the worlds largest), 1959

Tupolev Tu-2S-built in quantity, this type proved a worthy replacement for the SB-2

Tupolev SB-2 -the standard Soviet medium bomber at the time of the 1941 German invasion

Tupolev Tu-144 (forward view) aloft from under

A N Tupolev ANT-35 (forward view, parked)

A N Tupolev ANT-9Bis (forward view, on the ground) of URSS-S186

A N Tupolev ANT-20bis (forward view, on the ground) of CCCP-L760

A N Tupolev ANT-2 (side view, on the ground)

A Tupolev Tu-154M in flight over Bulgaria
A Tupolev Tu-154M of the Russian State Transport Company in flight over Bulgaria

A Tupolev Tu-154M on final approach in Bulgaria
A Tupolev Tu-154M on final approach to Sofia Airport, Bulgaria

Aboard a tu-104 airliner during a trans-siberian flight, july 1956

Monino air force museum, Russia C016 / 8384
Monino air force museum. View of aircraft preserved at the Monino Air Force Museum, just outside Moscow, Russia. In the foreground are three fighter aircraft from the Second World War

Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer C013 / 9139
Andrei Tupolev (1888-1972). Portrait of the Soviet aircraft designer, Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, standing in front of a Tu-144 airliner in Moscow, Russia

Alexei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer
Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev (1925-2001), Soviet aircraft designer, holding a model of a Soviet supersonic aircraft. Tupolev, the son of the famous aircraft pioneer Andrei Tupolev

Arkhangelsky, Tupolev, Soviet engineers
Alexander Alexandrovich Arkhangelsky (left, 1892-1978), and Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (1888-1972), Soviet aviation engineers, talking at an airfield

Tu-22M3 in flight
A Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber and missile carrier taking part in the dress rehearsal of the Victory Parade in Red Square in Moscow

Airport parking stand at night
Airport at night. Airliners parked at an airport stand at night. In the foreground is a Tupolev Tu-154 three-engined airliner, in the background are (left to right) a Boeing 737

First Soviet nuclear bomber
The Tupolev Tu-4 aircraft that carried the first air-dropped Soviet nuclear bomb, known as RDS-3. RDS-3 was a modified version of the American Fat Boy implosion-type bomb with a plutonium core

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