Tupolev

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Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defence company, Tupolev was founded by Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev in 1922.

in 1944 he received the stalin prize for designing the TU-2 medium-range bomber. Tupolev designed more than 130 types of aircraft.

The Russian government merged Tupolev with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation. Tupolev, in its 90 years lifelong time produced. more than 18,000 Tupolev (different model) aircraft.

Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev

The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engine medium-range narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev.

Many variants of this airliner have been built. Like its western counterpart, the 727, many of the Tu-154s in service have been hush-kitted, and some converted to freighters.

The Tupolev Tu-204 is a twin-engined medium-range jet airliner capable of carrying 210 passengers, First introduced in 1989, it is intended to be broadly equivalent to the Boeing 757, It was developed for the medium-range Tupolev Tu-154 trijet. this model has many versions.

The Tupolev Tu-334 was a Russian short to medium range airliner project that was developed to replace the ageing Tu-134s and Yak-42s in service around the world.

The Tupolev Tu-334 was developed from Tupolev Tu-204 In mid-2009, the decision was taken to not continue with the Tu-334 programme and instead focus efforts on the Sukhoi Superjet 100, the Antonov An-148, and the Irkut MC-21.