This day in history. Part 2.
On November 10, 1888, the great aircraft designer Andrey Nikolaevich Tupolev was born. Tupolev is an era in the domestic aircraft industry. In 1925, he created the first bomber TB-1, then there were TB-3, the legendary ANT-25, on which Cheklov made a record flight to the United States. During the Great Patriotic War, enemies were flattened by Tupolev SB and Tu-2 bombers. After the war, under his leadership, a number of magnificent military and civilian machines were created: the Tu-4 strategic bomber, the first Soviet jet bomber Tu-12, the Tu-95 turboprop strategic bomber, the Tu-16 long-range missile carrier, the Tu-22 supersonic bomber, the short- and medium-range Tu-104, the first Tu-104, the Tu-104. Tu-154, and also the supersonic passenger Tu-144 (together with Alexey Tupolev). In total, more than 100 types of aircraft were designed, of which 70 were put into mass production. Andrey Nikolaevich also trained a whole galaxy of outstanding aircraft designers: V.M. Petlyakov, P.O. Sukhoi, V.M. Myashchev, M. to. Mill, A. A. Tupolev, S.A. to Buchkin.