Tupolev Tu-154: The USSR's Medium-Range Jet Airliner

Komissarov, Dmitriy

ISBN 10: 1857802411 / ISBN 13: 9781857802412

Published by Midland Publishing, Hinckley, 2007

About this Item

192 pages, 830g. Card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w and colour photographs and drawings including production list history. This volume covers the Tu-54 fully, tracing its development and operational history and describing all known versions and variants, including some unrealized projects that were based on the airplane. Includes a detailed production list, operator lists on a country-by-country basis and accident details. Seller Inventory # 025936

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tupolev Tu-154: The USSR's Medium-Range Jet ...

Publisher: Midland Publishing, Hinckley

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The latest title in the Aerofax imprint deals with the history and operations of the Soviet/Russian Tu-154 jet airliner, one of the most successful and long-lived jets produced by that country's aviation industry.

The need for the state-of-the-art medium-haul jet airliner that would succeed both the Soviet's existing jet airliner, the twin-engined Tu-104, and to a certain extent the four engined turboprop Ilyushin II-18, led the design bureau headed by Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev to start work on a three-turbofan engined aircraft which, in keeping with the company's established tradition, was designated the Tu-154. Sharing the rear-engine, 'T-tail' layout of the Boeing 727 and the Hawker Siddeley Trident, the prototype took to the air on 3rd October 1968.

In the years that followed the Tu-154 became not only the principal medium-haul aircraft of the Soviet airline Aeroflot but also one of the Soviet Union's bestsellers on the commercial aircraft market. Built on a slightly smaller scale that the 727, though it was much larger that its British counterparts in airline service. It's uses have included VIP transportation, astronaut training and open skies monitoring flights. It is still a popular aircraft on holiday charter flights.

This book traces the development and operational history of one of the most successful designs produced by the Tupolev bureau. It describes all known versions and variants and unrealised projects based on the aeroplane. A detailed production list, operator lists on a country-by-country basis and accident details are included.

About the Author:

Dmitriy Komissarov is a respected authority on Russian and Soviet aviation. He works in the publishing industry and lives in Moscow.