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 ...

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 ...

In the race to modernize air travel, the Soviet Union introduced the TU-104—a jet airliner built from a repurposed bomber. While it was a symbol of Soviet technological prowess, this aircraft quickly ...

Unless a U.S.S.R. aircraft crashes outside the Iron Curtain, or crashes with foreign passengers aboard, Soviet Russia never announces a flying accident. Last week a TU-104 jet passenger airliner had ...