Credit: VPales/Alamy Stock Photo Russian airline Red Wings plans to expand its fleet with four Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-204/214 ... with Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) will see one ...

This Soviet-era long-range transport aircraft is a certified workhorse ... or 85 tons of cargo in an all-cargo configuration. The Tupolev Tu-160 is the largest, heaviest supersonic and combat ...

These notoriously inefficient engines would need replacements developed immediately if the fast-moving supersonic transport ... of the Tupolev Tu-144, the supersonic passenger aircraft.

On this day in aviation history, April 27, 1952, the Tupolev Tu-16 (NATO reporting ... miles and a service ceiling of 42,000 feet. The aircraft typically carried a crew of six or seven, depending ...

The Boeing 247 was used as a military transport aircraft, too ... those honors belong to the De Havilland Comet in the UK and Tupolev Tu series in the USSR. What makes the 707 different is ...

Russia’s United Aircraft is intending to use a newly-restored Tupolev Tu-214 to advance efforts to develop a two-person cockpit for the type. The aerospace firm disclosed the plan as the testbed ...

During the night of October 12-13, a military transport aircraft Tu-134 ... The Tu-134 was originally a Soviet passenger aircraft developed by the Tupolev design bureau and was one of the most common ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...