JETLINERS OF THE RED STAR

The introduction of the Tupolev Tu-104 on September 15th, 1956, under the command of Boris Bugayev, Leonid Brezhnev's personal pilot, on the long route from Moscow to Irkutsk via Omsk, put the Soviet Union ahead of every other nation in the world. For the next two years, it was the only jet airliner flying in the world, and the first to do so without interruption. Fully illustrated in color.