Andrei Kandalo, "Tupolev - The Man and His Aircraft: The Man and His Aircraft"(repost)
Andrei Kandalo, "Tupolev - The Man and His Aircraft: The Man and His Aircraft"
ISBN: 1560918993 | edition 1996 | PDF | 241 pages | 17 mb
ISBN: 1560918993 | edition 1996 | PDF | 241 pages | 17 mb
A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft Yefim Gordon & Vladimir Rigmant The origins of the design bureau that was to 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. Nearly 90 reached the prototype construction stage, with more than 40 types put into series production.In the 1930s, 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-engined aircraft both civil and military for which the OKB is justly famed.
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