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The Tupolev Tu-91 (NATO reporting name Boot) [1] was a two-seat Soviet attack aircraft built during the 1950s. It was initially designed as a carrier-borne aircraft, but was converted into a land-based aircraft after Joseph Stalin 's death in 1953 cancelled the aircraft carriers being designed.
The Soviet Air Force operated 847 Tupolev Tu-4 bombers between 1948 and early 1960, [41] initially as long-range bombers. The first regiment to be re-equipped on the Tu-4 was the 185th Guards Aviation Regiment of the 13th Guards Bomber Aviation Division, stationed at Poltava Air Base in the Ukrainian SSR.
Tu-90: prototype turboprop-powered variant of the Tu-16, 1954; Tu-91 "Boot": prototype naval attack aircraft, 1954; Tu-92: initial prototype of the Tu-16R, 1955; Tu-93: proposed version of Tu-14T powered by VK-5 or VK-7 engines, 1952; Tu-94: prototype turboprop-powered variant of the Tu-4, 1950; Tu-95LAL: prototype nuclear-powered aircraft ...
Tupolev Tu-76 military transport version of the Tu-4; also known as Tu-4D; Tupolev Tu-79 Tu-4 with M-49TK engines; Tupolev Tu-80 long-range bomber derivative of the Tu-4, precursor of the Tu-85; Tupolev Tu-81 initial prototype of the Tu-14; Tupolev Tu-82 experimental swept-wing jet bomber; Tupolev Tu-85 long-range heavy bomber derivative of the ...
Fantasy of Flight is an aviation museum in Polk City, Florida.. It opened in November 1995, to house Kermit Weeks' collection of aircraft that, until Hurricane Andrew damaged many in 1992, were housed at the Weeks Air Museum in Tamiami, Florida, On April 6, 2014, it closed to the public, aside from private events and on January 30, 2015, it opened a scaled-down museum displaying a small ...
Even before the first flights of the Tu-16 and Tu-20/Tu-95, Tupolev was working on supersonic bombers, culminating in the unsuccessful Tu-98. Although that aircraft never entered service, it became the basis for the prototype Tu-102 (later developed into the Tu-28 interceptor) and the Tu-105, which evolved into the supersonic Tu-22 bomber in ...
Accidents and incidents involving the Tupolev Tu-124 (8 P) Accidents and incidents involving the Tupolev Tu-134 (29 P) Accidents and incidents involving the Tupolev Tu-154 (1 C, 43 P)
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