“Ah, I see the capitalists are developing a ‘jetliner’, how do you propose we catch up Ivan?”
“Make exact copy?”
“No, I like your thinking though. You’ll go far comrade!”
“How about we stick more seats in existing jet powered bomber?”
“I’ll drink to that!”
Hence I reconfigured my Tu-16 into a Tu-104 so the proletariat can traverse their workers paradise at speed (prior authorisation to travel being approved of course!) She’s a little slow at low level but I wanted realistic cruising speed at altitude without going stupidly fast. VTOL for flaps and that’s about all.... we don’t have working gadgets here comrade!
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Successors 1 airplane(s) +112 bonus
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 102.4ft (31.2m)
- Length 106.1ft (32.3m)
- Height 30.2ft (9.2m)
- Empty Weight 41,088lbs (18,637kg)
- Loaded Weight 51,484lbs (23,352kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 0.916
- Wing Loading 24.6lbs/ft2 (120.3kg/m2)
- Wing Area 2,089.6ft2 (194.1m2)
- Drag Points 25743
Parts
- Number of Parts 239
- Control Surfaces 9
- Performance Cost 1,021
Thanks all much appreciated, I do like dabbling in the old soviet hardware and I’m glad you enjoyed this!
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@Tang0five Just did some quick research, yup, those Russians have a different design philosophy than pretty much everyone else on cockpit layout. At least according to a page on Quora about a similar design on Il-76, the glass nose was built for navigation and map-reading.
Supposedly for navigation purposes. I like to think they retained the ‘bomb aimer’ position so they could be transitioned back into a military role should the motherland be threatened..... @ThomasRoderick
Идеально
Did the Russians just forgot to remove the glass nose of their bombers when converting them to jetliners? I mean the Tu-104 have a glass nose, the Tu-114 (based on the Tu-95 airframe) have a glass nose, and the Tu-116 also have a glass nose (also based on the Tu-95)...
@Tang0five Badgers, Bisons and Bears. Bloody hell, that sounds like a song from the Wizard of Oz...
By all means, I look forward to your input! @Trainzo
It has been quite a while but I’m glad to see you back again! I’m sure you’ve been close enough to a badger to count those rivet-heads on not too friendly circumstances! @Alien
Vhere are all the exposed rived-heads, comrade? I will have to dock marks for being unrealistic. Just kidding. Good job as always, you imperialist swine, you.
@Tang0five , Hello how are you ? I would like to ask you .
if I can change the flight of your beautiful Tupolev 104.
The construction is very well done, but for me, the
flight area is not respected. I'm waiting for your answer .
It is obvious that it will be published with your name as creator.
Use a site like imgur and copy the direct link of the image (.jpg etc) into the description like so
! [ ] (link)
you need to remove all the spaces I’ve put in otherwise you wouldn’t be able to read it.
Good luck!
@Charlie2613
Nice build! How do you upload pictures on IOS? @Tang0five
@Tang0five no problem my fellow comrade
I like both your plane and write-up, comrade!
@Tang0five Nyet problema, comrade.
@WarHawk95, merci pour ton message.
Waouh 🤩, just magic. A Great job for a Great plane.
Thank you comrades!! @toxicgamer88 @SledDriver @THEAIRCRAFTCRAFTER @WarHawk95 @DPSAircraftManufacturer @otayahiromo8211 @MethaManAircraft
@Trainzo
Mobile user:Scream because it's mobile friendly
I genuinely laughed out to myself at that comment! And thank you! @asteroidbook345