OKB TUPOLEV – A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Special features | Dust jacket |
| Condition | Used good |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Published date | 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Collection / Series | FAMOUS RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT |
| Size | 22.23 x 27.94 x 3.18 cm |
| Author | Yefim Gordon and Vladimir Rigmant |
| Editor | Midland Publishing |
Description
The origins of the design bureau that would bear his name can be traced back to the appointment of Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev as head of the TSAGI's Aviation Department in 1918.
Over the years, nearly 300 projects have evolved within the OKB. Almost 90 reached the prototype construction stage, with more than 40 types put into series production.
The ANT-1 and ANT-2 light aircraft gave little hint of what was to come, but the TB-1 (ANT-4) and TB-3 (ANT-6) bombers, the latter being the world's first heavy strategic bomber, paved the way for the long line of large multi-engine aircraft, both civil and military, for which the OKB is justly famed.
Wartime production of the SB and Tu-2, along with the remarkable 'reverse engineering' of the Boeing B-29 that resulted in the Tu-4, led to the jet-powered Tu-16 and propeller-driven Tu-95 bombers. These, in turn, were adapted for civil purposes as the Tu-104 and Tu-114 airliners.
The supersonic Tu-22 and Tu-22M bombers, along with the Tu-144 supersonic airliner, a move into pilotless aircraft, and a host of imaginative but unbuilt projects complete this fascinating work.
This book is an ideal companion to the acclaimed volumes on OKB Ilyushin and OKB Yakovlev, published previously by Midland.
Source: Publisher's summary printed on cover