Tupolev Tu-114 Turboprop airliner: Short documentary
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- This piece explores the inception, groundbreaking design, operational feats, criticisms, and eventual retirement of the Tupolev Tu-114, the largest and fastest airliner of its time, serving as a symbol of Soviet ambition and a cautionary tale of overengineering.
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Amazing airplane. The big engines contra-rotating propellers broke the sound barrier at the tips, causing enormous noise, noisy even for those on the ground while the plane cruised 30,000 ft. above!
Wow I wish I was on the ground.
I'll take the TU 144 over noisy motorcycles and barking dogs any day of the week.
Some noises are relaxing. This must have been one of them.
The comment I read on the TU-114 said it was not relaxing. It was very loud with serious vibration. Otherwise it was quite an airplane. Separately, I think US tested a turboprop/jet fighter which, while on the ground, made the ground staff quite ill from the vibration/noise. @@antman5474
Yes, you are right
Once again, great video, excellent commentary and nice historical videos. Keep it up.
Thank you very much!
My favorite airplane ✈️!
t’s great to hear from someone who has a favorite aircraft, especially one as historically significant as the Tupolev Tu-114.
Love this plane. Like a giant grasshopper. My favorite Soviet airplane of all...
I’m making a small one out of paper and cardboard it’s my favorite propeller plane
That sounds like an awesome project! It’s great to see your passion for aircraft, and making a model out of paper and cardboard is a creative way to express it. Do you have a photo of your model? Would love to see it!
Amazing short documentary.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You mention that it was adapted from the TU-95 strategic bomber. Many will know that still contemporary Russian military aircraft as the "BEAR".
These were the only swept wing propeller driven aircraft built in any significant numbers.
The TU-115 has held the maximum speed record for propeller driven aircraft since 1960.
While only 32 TU-115s were built between 1958 until 1963 and they ceased civilian passenger service with Aeroflot during the mid-70s, the Soviet/Russian Air force didn't retire that type until 1991.
Krushchev's round-trip flights to the US during 1959 were essentially two of the early long-range test flights, which the Soviet leader embarked upon against the advice of his political and military advisors!
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Ferdinand Brandner (17 November 1903 - 20 December 1986) was an Austrian aerospace designer and an SS Standartenführer in Nazi Germany. While interned in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim following World War II, he played a major role in designing the Kuznetsov NK-12, the most powerful turboprop engine ever built.
The design that eventually became the NK-12 turboprop was developed after World War II by a team jf deported German engineers under Ferdinand Brandner, who had worked for Junkers previously
see "Operation Osoaviakhim" and "Ferdinand Brandner" on the WIKI or elsewhere
Please do one on tu-154!!
A documentary on the Tupolev Tu-154 would cover an important piece of aviation history. As a workhorse of Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War, its robust design and service record make it a fascinating subject.
Nobody will ever accuse the Russians copying this thing from anybody. Truly one of the coolest planes of all time and still one of the fastest propeller driven planes ever built. Also one of the noisiest, with propellers who's tip speed exceeded the speed of sound. Must have been torture to fly in one as a passenger.
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It's an interesting premise, but you have too much flowery language and not enough specifics. You state again and again how large the aircraft was, but it takes you 3 minutes to state that the tail was 50 ft high and to show pictures of the interior 3x3 layout. I still don't really have an idea for how big it is. You mention engineering and technical challenges, what were they?
I believe the sheer size presented problems for maintenance, the engines were close to 50 ft. high.
"Silent Jetairliners"!! What!? You´re kidding!!? Jetairliners back then were at least as loud if not much louder than turbo props (outside). In fact they were banned in some urban regions. Nowadays jetengines achieved to be a lot more quiet by becoming more and more simular to a turbo prop.
You're absolutely correct in pointing out the noise levels of early jet airliners. Technological advancements have indeed made modern jet engines quieter, resembling the noise profiles of turbo props. It's an important clarification, and we appreciate your input on the matter.
I'm not sure you realise how loud these early contraprops were. They were deafening even compared to early low or no bypass jets like the JT8Ds etc.
@@Flying_GC Do you have a direct comparison? In the 60s I heard airplanes starting ( Boeing 707/727/37/ DC 8, DC 9, Caravelle, Convair Coronado, Bac One-Eleven Vickers Viscount ,HS 748, Lockheed Superconstellation, DC7) and the jets were by far the loudest.
Great documentary.... I note all USSR Passenger planes!! Were fitted with bomb aiming positions...Roger, Pembrokeshire UK
Interesting how he covers the noise issue.
But just saying it wasn't a converted bomber doesn't make it so. There's nothing wrong with it, there were attempts to transform the b-29 into an airliner. Dc-3s were turned into c-47s which were then turned back into DC 3's.
Though these were not converted bombers, they were purpose-built using design elements from military designs from the same stable. Hardly a new idea, a Sabreliner wasn't a converted F-86, despite sharing wings/tail, similar to the Tu-114 sharing similar Tu-95 elements. The DC-3 to C-47 conversions were really not the same thing.
9:37 what is that photographer doing with his free hand???
Lol
Can you do TU154 please Sur ❤
немецкий двигатель
Фердинанд Бранднер (17 ноября 1903 - 20 декабря 1986 г.) был австрийским аэрокосмическим конструктором, SS штандартенфюрером в нацистской Германии и в CCCР вместе с другими германскими инженерами создал самый мощный турбовинтовой двигатель из когда-либо построенных, названный Кузнецов НК-12. Впервые этот двигатель был испытан в 1953 году и успешно зарекомендовал себя. Первоначально он был установлен на Ту-95.
Фердинанд Бранднер и его немецкие сотрудники были депортированы в Советский Союзе в рамках Операции Осоавиахим после Второй мировой войны.
см Операция Осоавиахим в ВИКИ
Wtf technology superiority, when this happened
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Are the performance numbers backed up by anyone other than the Soviets? However loud it was I can’t imagine it being worse than the Lockheed turboprop Electra, introduced about the same time. If you sat in the wrong seat, it could could jar the fillings out or your teeth. Which was actually an ok distraction from wondering if a wing was going to fall off. Of course this was within a month of the Electra that crashed near Dawson, TX in 1968. Never flew Braniff or Electra again.
It was far worse than an Electra - FAR more horsepower and the contra-rotating props cause a distinctive and deafening square-wave acoustic effect that is very unique to those designs.
The Electra is fairly conventional by comparison, the engines and props are similar to many turboprops of the era (especially the C130.)
It’s not a too 114 it’s a TU 114
Actually, in Russian it is
A great aeroplane except there are a lot of superlatives here that sound like Soviet propaganda. The first flight of the TU114 was 15 Nov 1957 while the Boeing 707 was Dec 20 1957 and the DH Comet flew 10 years before on 27 July 1947. The TU114 top speed was 540 mph while the 707 was 600 mph.
This traveled faster than a 747?
No; not faster than any turbojet or turbofan passenger aircraft!
It still holds the record however, as the fastest PROPELLER- DRIVEN aircraft!
@@markpimlott2879 I must have misheard how many knots he said it went. Wiki has it at 451mph or 470 knots.
Plus, until the 747, this was the largest passenger aircraft in commercial service.
Soviet aircrafts did't compete for their markets. It was governments that ordered them. So the International aircraft industry & its logic & judgement to the Tu 144 don't apply. Not do their shortcomings matter that much. Part of its demise was the impression it gave propeller planes, however impressive their performance looked antiquated in the jet age. It was this that provoked Khrushchev to order the development of Soviet passenger jet aircrafts.
That’s why so many western companies bought them up😂😂😂. They were POS’s that were so loud you had to pass notes. Very ground breaking. Sound like someone knows how salty Putin’s little Putin is?
It's the largest passenger turboprop, but not the largest turboprop.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-22
...is the largest turboprop aircraft ever to enter service and the first 'wide body' turboprop.
The TU-115 is the largest swept wing ever built as well as the largest passenger turboprop ever to have entered service.
Ferdinand Brandner (17 November 1903 - 20 December 1986) was an Austrian aerospace designer and an SS Standartenführer in Nazi Germany. While interned in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim following World War II, he played a major role in designing the Kuznetsov NK-12, the most powerful turboprop engine ever built.
The design that eventually became the NK-12 turboprop was developed after World War II by a team of deported German engineers under Ferdinand Brandner, who had worked for Junkers previously
see "Operation Osoaviakhim" and "Ferdinand Brandner" on the WIKI or elswhere
No, that was the An-22, which also shared Tu-95 design elements with this too.
I like your scripts but can you tweak the narration so that it is T. U. not Two. it's quite annoying.
Two is the correct pronunciation in Russian.
I agree!
In English we state Soviet and Russian aircraft types other than Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG) as two letters. T (&) U for Tupelev; S (&) U for Suhoi; A (&) N for Antonov; I (&) L for Ilyushin; B (&) E for Beriev; K (&) A for Kamov; and M (&) I for Mil; etc.
Over and over, the same thing being said for 10.minutes...
Thank you for the honest feedback. Keeping content engaging without being repetitive is a challenge I am continually navigating. If you could suggest one aspect of the Tu-114’s story that deserves a deeper exploration, what would it be?
Tu-95🐻 AN-22🐷
the Tu-95’s influence on the Tu-114 is unmistakable, from those mighty engines to its general design. It’s like a family resemblance in aircraft form! Thanks for your observation, and keep flying high with those comments!