To: darkwing104
The reversed engineered B-29 Superfortress was the TU-4 Bull. The TU-95 Bears were the Russian response to the B-52s and I don't belive it was a copy of anything.You are 100% correct. The Tu-4 Bull was the reverse engineered Superfortress, copied from a plane forced to land in the Soviet Far East in WW2.
27 posted on
08/09/2007 9:55:22 AM PDT by
FormerACLUmember
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To: FormerACLUmember
I build model airplanes as a hobby and I get paid to work on the real things. It's cool when you can get paid for something you like to do.
31 posted on
08/09/2007 10:01:43 AM PDT by
darkwing104
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To: FormerACLUmember; darkwing104
From what I remember reading, they even copied a poorly designed motor or pump, even to the point of carrying a spare or two.
The US eventually fixed that shortcoming, but obviously not on the one that the Soviets declined to return.
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