Despite the fact that the Tu-104 symbolized the start of global civil jet aviation, its accident rate was beyond any reasonable limits. A pioneer of Soviet commercial jet aviation and one of the first ...

On this day in aviation history, June 17, 1955-exactly 70 years ago-the Tupolev Tu-104 took to the skies for its first official flight. Designated “Camel” by NATO, the Tu-104 was a narrow-body, ...

The Soviet Union was, without a doubt, the biggest challenger to everything humanity had achieved until the gigantic country appeared on the world's map. A new leadership paradigm, a never-before-seen ...

The Tu-104 was created by adapting a Soviet bomber into a passenger jet to beat the West into the jet age. For a time, it was ...

A source of national pride, the Tupolev Tu-104 jetliner drew a crowd at a 1959 national economy exhibition in Moscow, and at all its public appearances. Ria Novosti Anatoly Gorbachev remembers that he ...

It's an unfortunate fact of flying, but sometimes, planes crash. Some even do it more than others, but only one has ever crashed with such a frequency that a creepy Soviet Folk song was written about ...

Technological leaps forward, as we know, often tend to be met with an equal parts excitement and fear. The fact is, nobody really knows what's possible and what isn't until somebody tries it and lives ...