Concorde and Tupolev are acknowledged as some of the first planes to break the sound barrier, but it wasn't them. Which one actually did it first?

The United State's current long-range strategic bomber inventory consists of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, the Rockwell B-1 Lancer, and the Northrup Grumman B-2 Spirit. Unlike the Soviet-era Tupolev ...

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) has gained access to sensitive data of Russia's strategic aircraft manufacturer Tupolev, a source in HUR told the Kyiv Independent on June 4. Tupolev, a ...

Russia’s Tupolev is best known for building a strategic bomber powered by turboprop engines. The Tu-95 Bear, a still-flying relic of the Cold War that first took to the skies in 1952, is an artifact ...

6 Apr 2023, 20:05 UTC · By: Henry Kelsall // The Tupolev Tu-144 was the Soviet's answer to Concorde, but a crash at the 1973 Paris Airshow was just one problem that befell the troubled airliner ...

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. Wealthy foreign clients regularly address the Russian aircraft-building company Tupolev for making a private supersonic business class jet on the basis of Russia’s ...

Alexi Tupolev, 76, a Russian aircraft designer who helped build the first Soviet supersonic passenger jet and the Soviet space shuttle, died Saturday in Moscow. The son of aircraft pioneer Andrei ...

Tupolev is attempting to wrest control of the Tu-334 regional jetliner from MiG in a likely last-ditch attempt to breathe life into the moribund program. To save its short-haul twinjet, Tupolev is ...

Tupolev 007 aerosled at the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance- Click above for high res gallery Tupolev 007 aerosled at the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance- Click above for high res gallery We’ll provide a ...