Tupolev Tu-4 “Bull” Photos/Walk Around Photos

 

Tupolev Tu-4 “Bull” Photos and several Walk Around Photos collections. Credit: Walk Around #1, Martin Zahalka and Lukas Tlaskal. Walk Around #2, HobbyVista. Both walk arounds where taken at the China Aviation Museum in Datangshan, China.

Tu-4 4114 (c/n 2805601), ex-KJ-1 AEWC, "4114"
Tu-4 4134 (c/n 2205008), "4134"
Tu-4 unknown (c/n 2805103), "01"

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Click here to download Walk Around #1 in ZIP file (107.7 Megs)

Click here to download Walk Around #2 in ZIP file (1.4 Megs)

Tupolev Tu-4 Billion Dollar Bomber

More on the Tupolev Tu-4 Bomber and the Tu-75 transport and Tu-20 “Bear” bombers which came after it. The complete multi-part article published in Air Enthusiast magazine from1971. Thanks to Grigory Omelchenko for the idea of finding this article!

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Additional Tupolev Tu-4 “Bull” info here

Tupolev Tu-4 “Bull” Technical Description

Tupolev Tu-4 Technical Description (Basic Descriptions) Manual , dated 1953. Russian text. Credit: Irfan S. Hokan

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Tupolev Tu-4

“The Tupolev Tu-4 was a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid-1960s. It was a reverse-engineered copy of the U.S.-made Boeing B-29 Superfortress.” Wikipedia

A couple more photos from Zdenek Cizinsky’s collection.

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Tupolev Tu-4 - Carbon Copy Bomber

A nice short article by Walter Boyne for the June 2009 Air Force Magazine on the Tupolev Tu-4 “Bull” Bomber.

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F-4 Photos Taken from Tupolev Tu-95M Bear-A

Some unusual photos (In the West) of f-4 aircraft photographed from inside a Tupolev Tu-95M  Bear-A bomber during the cold war. From 1986. Credit: Strelbitsky Konstantin

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