The Ilyushin Il-62, developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau in the early 1960s, was the Soviet Union's first long-haul jet ...

MOSCOW — Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that Soviet-built planes similar to the one that crashed this week should be taken out of s ...

It’s the 1950s, and you’re the Soviet Union. Your deepest rivals, the Americans and their corporations, are all preparing the latest and greatest jet airliners to fly them all over the world.

It didn’t have a happy ending, though. The Tu-144 was a troubled aircraft. Marred by an accident at the 1973 Paris Air Show, and severe mechanical problems that kept many of these airliners ...

That didn't mean the Soviet Navy wasn't tracking the plane like a hawk as it made its way across the North Atlantic. Khrushchev never stepped foot inside the Tu-116 to anyone's knowledge.

So, too, does the frightening story of the Soviet Union's Tupolev TU-104, the jet airliner that could be truly terrifying to ride. Here's the frightening lowdown on this unique yet dangerous aircraft.