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  Andrei Tupolev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of the military aircraft he designed, the Tupolev Tu-95 (an intercontinental bomber) is probably the most famous.
Tupolev was arrested in 1937 together with another famous aircraft designer, Vladimir Petlyakov, charged with the creation of "Russian Fascist Party".
Officially Tupolev was convicted in 1940 for 10 years, but released in 1944 "for carrying out important defense works".
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrei_Tupolev   (273 words)

  
 Tupolev, Andrei Nikolayevich on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tupolev was the first in the USSR to design all-metal aircraft.
Tupolev is widely considered the foremost aircraft designer of the USSR.
His son, Aleksei Andreyevich Tupolev, 1925-2001, was also an aircraft designer.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tupolev.asp   (124 words)

  
 Tupolev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tupolev OKB was founded by Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev in 1922.
Tupolev ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky", the largest airplane of the 1930s, it was used for Stalinist propaganda purposes and was often flown over Moscow.
A Tupolev Tu-142 anti-submarine and maritime patrol aircraft of the Indian Navy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupolev   (1039 words)

  
 Andrei Tupolev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (Russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Ту́полев; November 10, 1888 – December 23, 1972) was a pioneering Russian aircraft designer.
Of the military aircraft he designed, the Tupolev Tu-26 (an intercontinental bomber) is probably the most famous.
In 1939 he was moved from a prison into near Moscow, where an NKVD sharashka for aircraft designers was established and where many of his colleagues from TsAGI have already been working.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Andrei_Tupolev   (312 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: Aviation (Tr-Tz)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Tupolev Tu-16 is armed with six 23 mm NR-23 cannons in a radar-directed manned tail-turret and remotely-aimed upper dorsal and rear ventral barbettes, and one 23 mm NR-23 cannon in the starboard side of the nose, and up to 9000 kg of disposable stores in a lower-fuselage weapons bay.
The Tupolev Tu-20 carried a crew of ten and was armed with six 23 mm cannons positioned in two remote-control and one radar-controlled positions and could carry up to 25000 lbs of bombs.
The Tupolev Tu-26 (Backfire) is a Soviet four-seater variable-geometry operational/strategic bomber derived from the Tu-22 in an effort to overcome the Tu-22's poor range and indifferent supersonic performance, the process being analogous to that which saw the evolution of the variable-geometry Sukhoi Su-17 series from the fixed-geometry Su-7.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /ITC.HTM   (2709 words)

  
 Tupolev - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Officially known as PSC Tupolev, it is the sucessor of the famed Tupolev OKB or Tupolev Design Bureau (design office prefix Tu) headed by the renowned Soviet aerospace engineer A.N. Tupolev.
Tupolev OKB was founded by A.N. Tupolev in 1922.
This was followed by the development of the jet-powered Tu-16 Badger bomber, based on an enlarged version of the B-29/Tu-4 fuselage, which used a sweptback wing for good subsonic performance.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /tupolev.htm   (1016 words)

  
 Alexei Tupolev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev (Russian: Алексе́й Андре́евич Ту́полев; May 20, 1925–May 12, 2001) was a Soviet aircraft designer who led the development of the first Soviet supersonic passenger jet, the Tupolev Tu-144.
Tupolev was the son of famed Soviet aircraft pioneer, Andrei Tupolev.
He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1949 and began working with his father at the Tupolev Design Bureau.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexei_Tupolev   (107 words)

  
 TUPOLEV
The Tupolev company is probably the most famous aeronautics firm, or design bureau, as the Soviets referred to their aeronautics companies, in the former Soviet Union.
Tupolev was born in 1888 and developed an early interest in aeronautics, building gliders by the time he reached his early twenties.
Tupolev resisted the idea of copying since he believed that one of his own designs, the Samolet 64, would be a better option.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Tupulov/Aero59.htm   (1466 words)

  
 MILAVIA - Aircraft - Tupolev Tu-160 'Blackjack'
Tupolev, which was formally called Moscow Engineering Plant 'Opyt' (meaning Test), joined Sukhoi and Myasishchev in the quest for a supersonic strategic bomber.
Tupolev's flying-wing design was a single-mode aircraft and the air force required bomber following a compound flight profile and be able to also land at 'smaller' airfield.
Aleksei Tupolev (son of Andrei Tupolev, founder of the design bureau) lead the Tu-160 design program during the initial period, in 1975 Valentin Bliznyuk was appointed as chief designer and remains in charge of the program today.
www.milavia.net /aircraft/tu-160/tu-160_his.htm   (1771 words)

  
 Tupolev - Wikipédia
Tupolev (Russe: Туполев) est une compagnie russe de défense et de conception aérospatiale.
Le champ d'action de la compagnie Tupolev PSC est principalement le développement, la construction et la révision d'avions civils et militaires.
Années 1990: Tupolev devient Complexe Scientifique et Technologique de l'Aviation Tupolev (Tupolev ANTK) ou ANTK Tupolev ou encore AO ANTK Tupolev.
fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupolev   (185 words)

  
 Stalin’s Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tupolev, the principal figure in the early development of Soviet aviation and a leading aircraft designer, was led away to immediate imprisonment.
Tupolev and his design team were imprisoned, along with the Petlyakov and Myasischev design teams, in the buildings Tupolev had worked in prior to his arrest—later to become the Tupolev Design Bureau.
Kerber recounts Tupolev’s central role in Soviet aviation before and after his imprisonment, beginning with his effort to establish the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI)—the Soviet Union’s leading aviation research and development center—his prescient advocacy of the transition from wood to metal aircraft construction, and his leadership in the advancement of Soviet bomber and transport aviation.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/apj00/win00/kerber.htm   (1443 words)

  
 Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev Biography / Biography of Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev Biography Biography
The Russian aeronautical engineer and army officer Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev (1888-1972) was the leading designer of large and heavy aircraft in the former U.S.S.R. Andrei Tupolev was born on Nov. 10, 1888, in the village of Pustomazovo (now Kalinin Oblast).
In 1936 Tupolev visited the United States and Germany to study methods of aircraft construction, and the following year he was accused of selling to Germany blueprints of a plane that supposedly became the Messerschmitt 109 fighter.
Tupolev was made a lieutenant general in the technical branch of the Red Army during World War II.
www.bookrags.com /biography-andrei-nikolaevich-tupolev   (637 words)

  
 Tu-16 BADGER (TUPOLEV) - Russian and Soviet Nuclear Forces
Intended to replace the propeller-driven TU-4, the greatest challenge during development was to doubling the speed to improve survivability in the face of enemy fighters.
OKB A.N. Tupolev started working on the design of a new jet bomber soon after development of the TU-4 was completed.
Based on the results of the "82" aircraft, in 1950 OKB Tupolev started developing the "492" heavy long-range bomber that had a better performance than the TU-4 and the Il-28.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/bomber/tu-16.htm   (2075 words)

  
 Tupolev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Officially known as PSC Tupolev, it is the sucessor of the famed Tupolev OKB or Tupolev Design Bureau headed by the renowned Soviet aerospace engineer A.N. Tupolev.
In World War II, the twin-engined, all-metal Tupolev Tu-2 was one of the best front-line bombers of the Soviets.
The ?K? Department was formed in the Design Bureau with the task of designing unmanned aircraft such as the Tu-139 and the Tu-143 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/t/tu/tupolev.html   (818 words)

  
 Tupolev Tu-144 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO reporting name: Charger) was a supersonic airliner constructed under management of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau headed by Alexei Tupolev (1925–2001).
During the 1980s, the last two production aircraft to fly were used for airborne laboratory testing, including research into ozone depletion at high altitudes.
In 1990, Tupolev approached NASA and offered a Tu-144 as a testbed for its High Speed Commercial Research program, intended to design a second-generation supersonic jetliner.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144   (1073 words)

  
 Bashkirian Tupolev 154 Crash at Ueberlingen Germany Looks Like a Shoot Down
Alas, this would only be partially possible if the two jets suffered a direct head-on collision, literally nose to nose, resulting in the fuselage sections of each aircraft being telescoped and compressed, with both falling to earth in a deadly eternal embrace as a single compact fused mass.
If an attack plane had been sitting in the 757's radar shadow for perhaps 50 or more miles, the two-man British/Canadian Boeing crew would have turned their own proximity radar off, because the warning noise would have been driving them nuts, and because they would have believed the equipment was defective.
This would then have left the Russian Tupolev [and the attack plane] with the only working proximity radars in the entire region at twenty minutes past midnight on 1 July.
www.geocities.com /roboplanes/tupolev.html   (2289 words)

  
 Tu-95 BEAR (TUPOLEV) - Russian and Soviet Nuclear Forces
However, KB Tupolev did not support the development of a bomber with turbojet engines, believing that the proposed AM-3 jet engines would not provide for the required range of more than 10,000 km.
The wings of the "95" were swept back at an angle of 35 degrees, allowing the placement of a large bomb bay behind of the torsion box of the wings' central unit at the aircraft's center of gravity.
After consideration of Tupolev's proposals, on 11 July 1951 the government officially approved the development of the "95" aircraft: Two versions were built, one with eight TV-2F engines coupled through the reduction gearbox in four pusher-tractor tandem pairs, and a second version with four TV-12 engines.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/bomber/tu-95.htm   (4156 words)

  
 Tupolev Tu-144 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO reporting name: Charger) was a supersonic airliner constructed under management of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau headed by Alexei Tupolev (1925-2001).
These two aircraft remain at the Tupolev production plant in Zhukovski, reg 77114 and 77115.
In 1995, Tu-144D reg 77114 built in 1981 (but with only 82 hours, 40 minutes total flight time) was taken out of storage and after extensive modification at a total cost of $350 million was designated the Tu-144LL.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tupolev_Tu-144   (1103 words)

  
 Details for Tupolev - Tupolev EP [12rec.017]
Wie lange der musikalische Weg ist, den Tupolev gegangen sind, lässt sich beim Hören ihrer Debüt- EP nicht mehr feststellen.
Tupolev, a name I rather associated with a big hunk of machinery that people always wondered about how it was able to fly at all, and did for so long nevertheless, are a young band or band-collective from Austria, who founded when they went and bought their instruments[1] some years ago.
And after all that ending with the multiple self-recordings of the Tupolev Choir acapella, where obviously the band itself loses words to describe what is going on and falls into the theoretical trap of seeing the vocals as just another instrument from the opposite side.
www.archive.org /audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=12rec&collectionid=12rec.017   (1637 words)

  
 Tu-160 BLACKJACK (TUPOLEV) - Russian and Soviet Nuclear Forces
The Tu-160 was the outcome of a multi-mission bomber competition, which included a Tupolev proposal for an aircraft design using elements of the Tu-144, the Myasishchev M- 18, and the Sukhoi a design based on the T-4 aircraft.
Consequently, Tupolev was assigned to develop an aircraft using elements of the Myasishchev M-18 bomber design.
In 1981 OKB Tupolev built two prototypes of the bomber and one mock-up that was used for static tests.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/bomber/tu-160.htm   (1130 words)

  
 Tupolev Tu-22M3 NATO "Backfire C" by Phil Brandt (ESCI 1/72)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Andrei Tupolev's Backfire series of strike aircraft resulted from a clever ploy against the design bureau of his brilliant former student, Pavel Sukhoi.
What Tupolev had really done, however, was to design a wholly new aircraft which decisively elbowed the T-4 program out of the picture with only two airframes completed.
The Backfire--the M3, or "C", is the definitive variant--has soldiered on to be one of the most feared and respected Soviet air assets, and its capabilities have been the subject of many SALT negotiations.
www.features02.kitparade.com /backfirepb_1.htm   (787 words)

  
 Russian Aviation Page: Soviet B-29, a Tupolev Tu-4 Story
Tupolev prewar designs (early 30's) such as TB bomber series were revolutionary at the time of introduction.
The design bureau of Andrie N. Tupolev was given responsibility for the airframe, while the engine bureau headed by Arkadii B. Shvetsov was assigned the responsibility of copying the Wright R-3350 Duplex Cyclone engine.
According to Tupolev, there were three B-29s, one of which was made airworthy by cannibalizing the others.
aeroweb.lucia.it /~agretch/RAFAQ/Tu-4.html   (2841 words)

  
 Tupolev Design Bureau
First of all Tupolev Design Bureau became fundamental continuation and realization of all advanced trends being in Russian aviation science and technology at the beginning of the XX-th century.
Nine years later in 1919 Tupolev brilliantly defended his diploma project on “Experience of seaplane development on the basis of wind tunnel test data” having by this moment a substantial experience in aerodynamic investigations and in study of real Russian and foreign aircraft designs.
To-day a substantial portion of aircraft passengers in Russia and in CIS are transported by Tupolev’s aircraft.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/tu.htm   (1400 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Tupolev Tu-98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Tupolev Tu-98 (NATO reporting name 'Backfin') was a prototype swept wing jet bomber developed for the Soviet Union.
The West incorrectly believed that the aircraft (thought to be an Ilyushin or Yakovlev design) was in service, possibly designated Yak-42, but that was not correct.
The basic design of the Tu-98 did, however, have a great influence on the subsequent Tu-102, which became the basis of the Tupolev Tu-28P 'Fiddler' interceptor.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tupolev-Tu_98   (228 words)

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