Tupolev
The Russian company Tupolev (Russian Открытое акционерное общество " Туполев " / Otkrytoje akzionernoje obschtschestwo " Tupolev ", English: Tupolev Public Stock Company, formerly OKB Tupolev ) based in Moscow is one of the oldest and was one of the most important aircraft manufacturers in the world. Since late 2006, Tupolev part of the newly formed Russian aerospace consortium OAK.
History
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, who had founded together with Nikolai Zhukovsky Jegorowitsch the TsAGI, was also the Soviet State Committee prior to study the use of metal in aircraft. On October 22, 1922, he set up his own design office, the OKB Tupolev.
Total so far over 300 aircraft projects from which emerged about 90 prototypes. More than 40 types of aircraft reached series production. 18,000 civilian and military Tupolev aircraft were produced, however, came only a few hundred of them in the export. A technological exceptional position occupied the supersonic airliner Tu- 144.
In 2000 OKB was converted into a public limited company which, in addition to investments in Moscow on a manufacturing plant in Ulyanovsk.
The following civilian types are in production: the medium-range airliner Tu-204/Tu-214, the short- range airliner Tu -334, Tu- 330 transport aircraft, the and the Regional airliner Tu-324/Tu-414. Older models such as the Tu-134 and 154 are still being upgraded or fitted with new engines.
In addition to the civilian series of military long-range supersonic bomber Tupolev Tu -160 is built from the year a machine is eingeflottet in the air forces of the Russian Federation. For older models, such as the swing-wing bomber Tu -22M or the turboprop long-range bombers Tu-95/Tu-142 retrofits and repairs are made; production was stopped, however.
In research by examining ways to use alternative fuels such as hydrogen.
Military and civilian aircraft
The aircraft ANT- 1 to ANT- 6 are not to be confused with six, also built by OKB Tupolev in the years 1922-1924 Aerosledges the same name, which tests for the transition from the performed wood to all metal construction in the Soviet aviation were.