Tupolev Tu-114

JAL service

For operating the Moscow - Tokyo route, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] made an agreement with Aeroflot to use the Tu-114 on that route.

For these flights, the flight crew included one JAL member, and the cabin crew consisted of five each from Aeroflot and JAL.

The seating arrangement was changed to a two-class layout with 105 seats, and the aircraft livery included a small JAL logo and lettering on the forward fuselage.

In 1969 the Moscow - Tokyo Tu-114 flights were stopped, and the four involved planes converted back to the 200 seat domestic layout.

World Records


The Tu-114 holds a number of aviation records. In June 1959 the Aviation Sports committee of the Central Air Club named after Valeriy P. Chkalov approached the Tupolev OKB suggesting that various aviation records could be taken by Tupolev designed aircraft.

The Tupolev OKB prepared a detailed plan for record attempts on the Tu-16, Tu-104, Tu-104B, Tu-95M and Tu-114.

The second pre-production Tu-114 (CCCP-76459) was prepared and clearance obtained to fly with the 60 tonne payload required for some of the record attempts.

In a series of flight beginning on 24 March 1960 the Tu-114 achieved the following records in Sub-class : C-1 (Landplanes) Group 2 : turboprop :-

24 March 1960

Maximum speed on a 1,000 km (620 mi) closed circuit with payloads of 0 to 25,000 kg (0 to 55,000 lb)Pilot : Ivan Sukhomlin (USSR)Captain : B. Timochuk + 4 other crewCourse/place : Sternberg-Point Observatory (USSR)

• 871.38 km/h (541.45 mph)
  

1 April 1960

Maximum speed on a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) closed circuit with payloads of 0 to 25,000 kg (0 to 55,000 lb)Pilot : Ivan Sukhomlin (USSR)2nd pilot : N. Kharitonov + 3 other crewCourse/place : Sternberg-Point Observatory (USSR)Tu-114 '76459'

• 857.277 km/h (532.687 mph)
  

9 April 1960

Maximum speed on a 5,000 km (3,100 mi) closed circuit with payloads of 0 to 25,000 kg (0 to 55,000 lb)Pilot : Ivan Sukhomlin (USSR)2nd pilot : Konstantin Sapelkin (2nd pilot)Course/place : Sternberg-Point Observatory (USSR)Tu-114 '76459'

• 857.212 km/h (532.647 mph)
  

12 July 1961

Altitude with payloads of 25,000 to 30,000 kg (55,000 to 66,000 lb)Pilot : Ivan Sukhomlin (USSR)2nd pilot : Piotr SoldatovCourse/place : Vnukovo (USSR)

• 12,073 m (39,610 ft)
  

21 April 1962

Maximum speed on a 10,000 km (6,200 mi) with payload of 1,000 to 10,000 kg (2,200 to 22,000 lb) Pilot : Ivan Sukhomlin (USSR)2nd pilot : P. SoldatovCourse/place : Sternberg-Point Observatory (USSR) Tu-114 '76467'

• 737.352 km/h (458.169 mph)
  

All these records stand but the category was discontinued when the category was split into take-off weight sub groups. Similar records have been set in the new sub-groups by Tu-95 and Tu-142 aircraft at faster speeds.

Variants

Tu-114A Prototype

The first produced Tu-114, registration SSSR-L5611 was first shown to the west in 1958 at the Brussels World Exhibition.

It later carried [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] to on his first trip to the United States, and the first visit to the U.S. by any Soviet leader.

The last flight of this plane was in 1968, and it is now on display at the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

Donc, le prototype 01 préservé à Monino

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Tu-114D variant

Long range version of the Tu-114, specially adapted for non-stop flights to [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

After US policy helped dissuade West African countries like [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] from granting refueling rights to Aeroflot, the Cuba flights had to be operated non-stop from the Soviet Union.

To make these flights possible, the seating of the plane was reduced from 170 to 60, and 15 extra fuel tanks were added.

The flights operated from Moscow through Murmansk, in the far north of the Soviet Union, and then entirely across the ocean to Havana.

The flights stopped at Murmansk in the reverse direction as well.

In most cases, this fuel load was enough to make it to the intended destinations, but in case of strong headwinds, a refuelling stop in [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] on the Bahamas was necessary.

All planes operating this route were converted back to the normal specifications after the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] began flying the Moscow - [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] route.