Updating is concerning advanced development in technology. Russian aircraft producers were traditionally abbreviated like that: Tupolev = Tu. Only later some literature changed to TU, but renowned R.E.G. Davies kept Tu. Select:

Jet Development     Military Precursors | Whittle, Ohain, Heinkel, Leduc, WWII, aftermath     Comet + Tupolev | Comet, Vickers, C-102, 152, Tu-104, Tu-124     Boeing + Competitors | B.707, B.720, DC-8, Convair, VC-10, IL-62     Short-to-Medium | Caravelle, B.727, Trident, DC-9, Tu-134, Tu-154, Mercure, B.737, BAC 111, Regional Jets     B.747 | Boeing 747     DC-10 + TriStar | DC-10, MD-11, TriStar, no Russians     Supersonic Pioneering | XS-1, B-58, XB-70A, SR-71, USSR     Concorde | Concorde (plus stories)     Tu-144 | Tupolev Tu-144     SST Ambitions | B.2707, L-2000, NAC-60, ESRP, JADC, Tu-244     Airbus + Boeing | A300, A310, IL-86, IL-96, B.757, B.767, B.777, A320, A330, A340, MD-12     A380 | A380     Dreamliner + A350 | Sonic Cruiser, B.787, A350, CR929     Narrowbodies | CRJ, A220, MC-21, C119, EMB, ARJ21, SSJ100, MRJ     Flying Wings | BWB, OFW     Studies + Ambitions | Studies versus Reality     Data | Jetliners’ Specifications     Fleet | Leading airlines’ jet fleet

Flying over Tyrol (WS)

With Hitler’s incendiary bomb raid on the civilian population of Guernica during the Spanish civil war, aircraft has become the tool of the evil. The story continued with bombing Coventry, Hamburg, Piraeus, Belgrade, Dresden, Hiroshima, Cambodia, Aleppo… Finally the Cold War brought civilization on the brink of self-destruction. Mankind has done the work of the devil – and opened up the skies.


Airbus A330-300 of Lufthansa, Munich 2015 (WS)


Boeing 777, Japan Airlines subsidiary, Tokyo Haneda 2005 (WS)