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TUPOLEV, ANDREI NIKOLAEVICH (Aeronautical Engineer) 



A. N. Tupolev was born October 29, 1888. In 1909 he entered 

 Moscow Higher Technical School where he was a pupil of N. E. 

 Zhukovskii, founder of Russian Aviation. While still an under- 

 graduate, he designed the first wind tunnel. Tupolev also par- 

 ticipated in the work of the aeronautical group of the Moscow 

 Higher Technical School and designed and built training gliders, 

 in one of which he became a pilot. After his graduation from 

 the Moscow Higher Technical School, he assisted in the organi- 

 zation of the Central Aerodynamic Institute and from 1918 to 

 1935 was the Director. Tupolev is a Lieutenant General in the 

 Engineer-Technical Service. In 1933 he was elected Corre- 

 sponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 

 1953 Academician. He was made an Honored Scientist of the 

 R.S.F.S.R. in 1933 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1945. Tupo- 

 lev was awarded a Stalin Prize and, in 1957, a Lenin Prize. He 

 has been a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet (third through fifth 

 convocations). 



In 1922, a bureau of design, in the Central Aerodynamic 

 Institute, under the direction of Tupolev, designed and con- 

 structed the single-seat ANT-1, built wholly of wood. In 1923- 

 24, Tupolev designed a glider, a hydroplane, and the two -seat 

 airplane, ANT-2, made entirely from duraluminum. Under his 

 direction, more than 100 various types of airplanes were de- 

 signed and constructed. Tupolev also designed and constructed 

 medium and heavy bombers: TB-1, ANT-9, TB~3, ANT-25 

 (RD), TB-7, SB, TU-2, TU-4, TU-104, and the TU-114. In 

 planes designed by Tupolev, a series of Russian flights were 

 carried out in Europe and to America (flights of V. P. Chkalov 

 and M. M. Gromov across the North Pole in an ANT-25 air- 

 plane), landings of polar expeditions on drifting ice floes, the 

 rescue of the crew of the steamship "Chelyuskin," and other im- 

 portant tasks were accomplished. Tupolev airplanes were used 

 for attacking enemy objectives at long distances. 



The TU-104 (1955) is the Soviet jet airplane. Its cruising 

 flight speed: 800 kilometers/hr. The cabin of the airplane is 



