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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.
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.
Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically for any scam that misrepresents what is being sold.
Tu-70 "Cart": prototype airliner variant of the Tu-4, 1946; Tu-71: prototype short-range bomber developed from the Tu-2, 1946; Tu-72: medium bomber project, 1940s; Tu-73: three-engined development of the Tu-18, 1947; Tu-74 (also known as Tu-73R): proposed high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Tu-73; Tu-75: prototype cargo ...
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 ...
The canals drain 233 billion US gal (880 billion L) of fresh water a year into Naples Bay, damaging the coastal saltwater ecology while causing the groundwater table to drop 2 ft (0.61 m) to 4 ft (1.2 m). The Florida Department of Business Regulation (FDBR) adopted real estate development reforms in the 1970s because of such abuses. [3] [4]
Video and photos from the scene showed the aircraft engulfed in flames and smoke after it crash-landed on Interstate 75 near Naples, on southwestern Florida's Gulf Coast, and came to rest beside a ...
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 ...