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

Komissarov, Dmitriy

ISBN 10: 1857802411 / ISBN 13: 9781857802412

Verlag: Midland Publishing, Hinckley, 2007

Beschreibung

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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 025936

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Tupolev Tu-154: The USSR's Medium-Range Jet Airliner
• Verlag: Midland Publishing, Hinckley
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1857802411
• ISBN-13: 9781857802412
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

The Tupolev Tu-154 was one of the most successful and long-lived of Soviet/Russian jet airliners. It was developed in response to the need for a state-of-the-art medium-haul jet airliner that would succeed the twin-engined Tu-104. Sharing the 'T-tail' layout of the Boeing 727 an the Hawker Siddeley Trident, the prototype took to the air on October 3, 1968. It became not only the principal medium-haul aircraft of the Soviet airline Aeroflot, but also one of the Soviet Union's best sellers on the commercial aircraft market. 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, accident details, and numerous color photos and line drawings.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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