Jetliners of the Red Star

The first aircraft i ever flew on was a Tupolev Tu-154 from London to Leningrad when i went to the Soviet Union in the late 1980s for political indoctrination a school trip. Thus, my love of Soviet era airliners was born, and this book by Charles Kennedy on Soviet era airliners is right up my street... or flight path.

A very well illustrated and written book covering Soviet jet airliners from the Tu-104 to the 204 and the other Tupolev, Ilyushin (my return flight was on an Il-62, nice but the Tu-154 was cooler) and Yakovlev types in between. 

Many of these aircraft are no longer in service, especially in Western skies which is a shame as the Airbus-Boeing duopoly can be a bit tedious at times. I did enjoy seeing the regular Bulgarian Tu-154 flight into Birmingham Airport up until a few years ago, and regular Sukhoi Superjet flights in as well (not since the Ukraine War began of course).

Highly recommended.