> Rare Prototype Tupolev TU 70 and TU 75 pics
> and and info!
>
> I found this on the net while doing some other propliner
> information searching. The site is in Russian and in
> Cyrillic text, so unfortunately I can't read or understand
> the text, but there are some pictures that I've never
> seen, anywhere else on the net before, of the Soviet
> TU 70 and TU 75. For those who may not be aware,
> the TU 70 and TU 75 were proposed civilian
> passenger and cargo versions of the Soviet TU 4
> bomber. The TU 4 was of course, the Soviet built
> version of the Boeing B 29, secretly copied, 'reverse
> engineered', more correctly, from 3 interned U.S.
> B-29's that landed in Soviet territory in 1944-45. What
> is less known is that besides the TU-4, of which over a
> 1000 - were built, Tupolev also proposed both a civil
> passenger and a cargo version of the TU 4, - the TU 70
> and TU 75. The TU 70 and 75 variants were never
> taken up and put into production though. The pictures
> here are of the prototypes and the only ones ever built.
> I've found lots of text information on the net about the
> TU 70/75, but never any actual photographs before.
> Anyway, click on the links below and enjoy!
>
legion.wplus.net/guide/air/b/tu4.shtml> P.S. If anybody here reads Russian and wants to translate
> some of the information from this site and post it here,
> I'd appreciate that very much.