Doolittle Raids...

MLenoch wrote:
Did they not build their own version of the B-29, based on the blueprints
they
constructed of the model they had at hand?

I do not believe they had any blueprints. The Tu-4 was completely reverse
engineered.
VL

I think we're saying the same thing. I didn't say that they had any
blueprints....I said that they made them by taking the airplane apart, measuring
and weighing everything, and putting their findings down on their own
blueprints, so that the Tupelov people could build an airplane from them. If
that's reverse engineering, that's undoubtedly what they did.

George Z.

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:21:44 -0500, "George Z. Bush" wrote:

Did they not build their own version of the B-29, based on the blueprints they
constructed of the model they had at hand?

George Z.

Yes, it was the Tupolev TU-4 "Bull". Naturally the Soviets claimed that it
was an original Soviet design.

Al Minyard

Alan Minyard wrote:

Yes, it was the Tupolev TU-4 "Bull". Naturally the Soviets claimed that it
was an original Soviet design.

It was amazing, right down to the fillaments in the radio tubes and every screw
and thread!

-- Charlie Springer

(Regnirps) wrote in message ...
Alan Minyard wrote:

Yes, it was the Tupolev TU-4 "Bull". Naturally the Soviets claimed that it
was an original Soviet design.

It was amazing, right down to the fillaments in the radio tubes and every screw
and thread!

-- Charlie Springer

Great article on that that plane's development:

http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/A...1/FM/TU-4.html

On 05 Nov 2003 07:58:30 GMT, (Regnirps) wrote:

Alan Minyard wrote:

Yes, it was the Tupolev TU-4 "Bull". Naturally the Soviets claimed that it
was an original Soviet design.

It was amazing, right down to the fillaments in the radio tubes and every screw
and thread!

-- Charlie Springer

It certainly was a great exercise in reverse engineering. I think that some of
it was due to fear. If the TU-4s started auguring in they could blame the
"stupid Americanski design", but in order to do that, it had to be an
exact copy.

Al Minyard

"Mike Zaharis" wrote in message
om...
(Regnirps) wrote in message
...
Alan Minyard wrote:

Yes, it was the Tupolev TU-4 "Bull". Naturally the Soviets claimed
that it
was an original Soviet design.

It was amazing, right down to the fillaments in the radio tubes and
every screw
and thread!

-- Charlie Springer

Great article on that that plane's development:

http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/A...1/FM/TU-4.html

Great article indeed!

Didn't know the Sovs were going to bomb Budapest!

John

(Mike Zaharis) writes:

Great article on that that plane's development:

http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/A...1/FM/TU-4.html

Indeed, thanks for posting the link.
--
G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan