The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...

It's not often that we get to write about an airplane, but very few modern birds have an interesting story to tell. The Tupolev Tu-144 is one amazing machine, built, like so many cool things, during ...

Following the Second World War, the Soviet Union was dependent on their Tupolev Tu-4, a copy of the American B-29 Superfortress long-range turboprop bomber. While both the American Superfortress and ...