(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