On this day in aviation history, 85 years ago (January 29, 1941), the Tupolev Tu-2 flew for the first time. Referred to as the Bat by NATO, the Tu-2 was a Soviet twin-engined high-speed frontline ...
The historic flight, which was 11 years in the making, saw the TU-2 flying longer than 14 hours and traveling over 6,000 NM across all 48 contiguous states of the U.S. On Aug. 1, 2025, we reported ...
One of the finest World War II bombers has a very unusual history - it was designed in a Gulag camp. The aircraft’s creator, Andrey Tupolev, and his colleagues were sentenced in 1937 for ...
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