Aeroflot Tupolev TU-104-"Tushino Air Display"-5/11/61

Fantastic footage of not one, but MULTIPLE TU-104s at Russia's annual air show at Tushino!

The DeHavilland Comet ushered in jet travel in 1952, the TU-104 began the first SUSTAINED jetliner service in 1956.

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[Lasa328]

In those days Russian aircraft were really Russian.....And I loved them!

[Coaljet]

How sad that they didn't keep a few flying, so that they could still be seen today at air shows. The Tu-104 certainly is a unique design, with the root-mounted engines, wing-pod gear housings and sharp anhedral of the wings.