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 ...

In the intense Cold War rivalry, the Soviet Union raced to match Western advancements in jet aviation, driven by national pride and ambition. The Tupolev Tu-104 emerged from this urgency, modeled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...