No but seriously, for the time? Soviet planes were amazing. Nearly every one of them were designed with solving a real, practical problem in mind, not just for profit.
For a short time, if you were in the USSR, you could even get a ticket on a supersonic plane for not much more than the price of a regular flight!
All of them were extremely reliable too, for example the Tupolev Tu-154 could land on a dirt field in sub-zero weather, something its Western equivalent, the Boeing 727, couldn’t dream of doing.
There are soviet planes in service to this day! Including the largest cargo plane ever built, of which only one was ever completed. That thing is an absolute beast and still flies occasionally when something would literally not fit in any other airplane.
No but seriously, for the time? Soviet planes were amazing. Nearly every one of them were designed with solving a real, practical problem in mind, not just for profit.
For a short time, if you were in the USSR, you could even get a ticket on a supersonic plane for not much more than the price of a regular flight!
All of them were extremely reliable too, for example the Tupolev Tu-154 could land on a dirt field in sub-zero weather, something its Western equivalent, the Boeing 727, couldn’t dream of doing.
There are soviet planes in service to this day! Including the largest cargo plane ever built, of which only one was ever completed. That thing is an absolute beast and still flies occasionally when something would literally not fit in any other airplane.
Sorry for the bad news but it was destroyed in Kiev airport a few weeks ago during fighting.
:(
😭Sad