Tupolev Tu-4
Videos
The Tupolev Tu-4 is a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. The aircraft was a copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, h
Tu 4
Tu-4 at China Aviation Museum
KJ-1 at China Aviation Museum, Beijing
China Aviation Museum, KJ-1.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Videos
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a retired American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the USAAF and USAF during World War II and the Korean War. Nam
Tupolev Tu-4
…piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. The aircraft was a copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, having been reverse-engineered from seized aircraft that had made emergency landings in the USSR. Toward the end of World War II, the Soviet Union saw…
Boeing B-29-70-BW Superfortress 469972 Doc – one of only two surviving airworthy models
YB-29 Superfortresses in flight
The length of the 141-foot (43 m) wing span of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress based at Davis-Monthan Field is vividly illustrated here with the cloud-topped Santa Catalina Mountains as a contrasting background.
Boeing assembly line at Wichita, Kansas (1944)