Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, the father of Soviet aircraft building, was born on November 10th 1888. He built his first glider back in 1910, and from the 1920s onward was involved in designing aircraft, both passenger and military. Tupolev trained several generations of aircraft designers. His design bureau continues to create aircraft to this day, and the Kazan Aviation Institute and Moscow’s Vnukovo airport are named after him.

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About this aircraft

• The Tu-1 is an experimental aircraft developed in the late 1940s at Plant No. 22 (A.N. Tupolev Design Bureau) based on the Tu-2 bomber. It was one of the last piston-engine combat aircraft capable of reaching speeds of up to 900 km/h. Its forward-firing armament consisted of four 23 and 45 mm cannons with ammunition belts for engaging both air and ground targets. The Tu-1 also features two defensive turrets with 12.7 mm machine guns and can carry 250, 500 or 1000 kg bombs, or 450 mm torpedoes on its external hardpoints.