On 26 December 1975, the Tupolev Tu-144, the first supersonic passenger aircraft (also known as the “supersonic transport” – SST), performed its first operational flight, carrying mail cargo from Moscow to Alma-Ata (now Almaty, Kazakhstan). […]
Ilyushin Il-28U (c/n 610501, formerly “CD-10”, later “0501”, of the Czechoslovak Air Force), exhibited at Letecké muzeum Kbely (Kbely Aviation Museum), Prague, September 2025. In June 1948, the Soviet authorities officially launched a development programme […]
Yakovlev Yak-27R / Як-27Р, NATO reporting name “Mangrove” (c/n 477, formerly “0708” – “red 28” of the Soviet Air Force), exhibited at Technikmuseum “Hugo Junkers” in Dessau, August 2025. In the early 1950s, the Soviet […]
On 4th April 1984, the well-known Soviet aircraft designer, Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (Олег Константинович Антонов) died in Kiev (in now Ukraine), at the age of 78. Antonov, born in 1906 in Troitsa village, the Moscow […]
On 7th February 1906, Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (Олег Константинович Антонов), the world-known aviation engineer, aviation designer and the founder of the Antonov construction bureau (OKB-153), was born in Troitsa village, in the Moscow region of […]
On 17th January 1847, a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, as well as founding father of aerodynamics, was born. Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, sometimes transliterated Joukovsky) was born in Orekhovo village, in the […]
Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, sometimes transliterated as Joukovsky) was born on 17 January 1847 in the village of Orekhovo, near Vladimir, Russia. The future scientist, mathematician and engineer, was born into a family […]
The Lavochkin construction bureau, also known as OKB-301, is best-known for its propeller-driven fighters, such as the LaGG-1, the LaGG-3, the La-5 and its derivatives, widely used during the Second World War, as well as […]
When, in April 1978, the Saur Revolution (also known as the April Revolution or April Coup) ended the rule of Mohammed Daoud Khan as President of Afghanistan, few expected that it would soon develop into […]
On 15th November 1957, the Soviet long-haul passenger airliner Tupolev Tu-114, performed its maiden flight. In August of 1955, in response for market demand, Совет министров СССР (the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union) […]
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