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Prestige, Not Profit. The Soviets plug Aeroflot as "the only line in the world with mass and regular exploitation of jets." To fly into the jet age ahead of the West, Aeroflot adapted Designer Andrei Tupolev's twin-jet Badger medium-range bombers to regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East...
RUSSIAN JETLINER, the Tupolev TU-104, is operating more punctually and comfortably than Western airmen expected with world's only commercial pure-jet service. The 70-passenger, twin-jet plane is now fully pressurized, carries three stewardesses who serve meals. Every day it makes 1,039-mile Prague-Moscow flight in 2% hours...
Wayne Parrish was the first Western newsman to confirm that the Russians had converted their TU-104, the Tupolev medium jet bomber, into a commercial air transport. From Moscow last winter he was the first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas...
Ours Are Bigger. Khrushchev deployed his evidence with skill. All week long, three sleek Russian jet airliners whooshed in and out of London Airport on courier missions. He sent Soviet Plane Designer Andrei Tupolev to look at the Britannia, Britain's latest turboprop liner, and Tupolev emerged remarking: "An impressive airplane, but we are building a bigger turboprop, which will carry 170 passengers." He sent Soviet Atomic Expert Igor V. Kurchatov to Harwell to deliver a lecture that left British scientists much impressed (see SCIENCE...
...Front? Russia, in fact, was just as far ahead in warmaking skills as the West. Aircraft? He cited Tupolev's planes...