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 ...

Converted from a bomber airframe, the Tu-104 carried jet travel into Soviet civilian service at unprecedented speed. But ...

On this day in aviation history, June 17, 1955-exactly 70 years ago-the Tupolev Tu-104 took to the skies for its first official flight. Designated “Camel” by NATO, the Tu-104 was a narrow-body, ...

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 ...

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 ...