I Wish For The TU-4 BUll

[casey jones]

I wish that a flight model of the TU-4 Bull would be made along with the Chinese Air Force version. The TU-4 was a copy of the B-29, The Russians used I think three AAF B-29s that made forced landings in 1944 in Soviet Territory to reverse engineer it. The TU-4 used differant engines and a differant bombsight...it was a very long and difficult process, but by the time they were in production, the USAF B-47 was in the air.


Cheers

Casey

 

[SteveB]

I wish that a flight model of the TU-4 Bull would be made along with the Chinese Air Force version. The TU-4 was a copy of the B-29, The Russians used I think three AAF B-29s that made forced landings in 1944 in Soviet Territory to reverse engineer it. The TU-4 used differant engines and a differant bombsight...it was a very long and difficult process, but by the time they were in production, the USAF B-47 was in the air.


Cheers

Casey

Gnoopey was building one as part of his fortress mania but that was a few years back. No idea what happened too it.
So I would second the request.

Steve aka stalin