Word: tupolev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recent pictures of new Russian bombers caused a flurry of speculation among engine experts. The Tupolev Bison, for instance, is about as big as the U.S. B-52. which has eight J57 jet engines, each rated at 10,000 Ibs. of static thrust (but capable of substantially more). But the Bison has only four engines, which led the experts to conclude that they must have at least 15,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...More planes, including 1,500 MIG 15s, 1,500 Yak fighters, 600 four-engine Tupolev bombers, 1,000 cargo planes...
...Tupolev). The Russian answer to the B-36. Swept wings, six huge turboprop engines, a speed of 600 m.p.h., and 10,000-mile range at 45 to 50,000 feet. Scheduled to fly some time late this year or early next...
...Tupolev). Direct copy of the U.S. B29. Speed, about 400 m.p.h.; range, 4,000-5,000 miles; bombload, 10,000 Ibs.; armament, 10-20-mm. cannon in four turrets. Tupolev has also built a long-nosed version of the B29, which some observers at the Aviation Day show mistook fora...
Andrei N. Tupolev, 62, Russia's top heavy-bomber man and last of the "old guard" Red designers. Quiet, scholarly, he set up the first aerodynamics research center in 1918, together with Professor Zhukovsky four years later built his first airplane, a timber and plywood single-engine monoplane. Has turned out 30 major planes from light puddle-jumpers to 1934's lumbering, eight-engine Maxim Gorky (which crashed after a few flights). Exiled during the purges, he came back in 1942 to design attack bombers (TU-2) for the Red air force. Greatest engineering feat: copying...