Talk:Tupolev Tu-95

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Contents 1 Images on the Portuguese wikipedia 2 Expand, please... 3 Mischief in the Air Bias tag 4 "Only turboprop-powered bomber"?

[edit] Images on the Portuguese wikipedia

On the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear page on the Portuguese wikipedia, there are 3 images that are much better than those here. pt:Image:Tu-95h 1.jpg, pt:Image:Tu-95-2.jpg & pt:Image:Tu95ms001.jpg. I am not sure how to get them here and not get in trouble with the "no source" police. --rogerd 03:35, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expand, please...

While an interesting article, it's a little spare on hard data. When did the Bear first fly? How many were built? Stuff like that. - Aerobird 16:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Will do. Give me a couple of days. - Emt147 ^Burninate! 17:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Added first flight, couldn't find how many were built. - Dammit 13:03, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mischief in the Air Bias tag

I'm getting ticked at finding these NPOV and other related tags littered all over Wikipedia without an explanation as to why their there in the first place. Anyone wish to list the reasons why the tags are up there?? --293.xx.xxx.xx 09:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I've added a citation for the quote and removed the tag. Polpo 22:40, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this is true, whom instead thay will put a "KGB guy"? If there are free places in the airplane? Free ejection seats or oxygen masks that he can take? Plus to this there is no need to move from another ane of tha airplane to another, as there is comunication system - it is better to use it, then waste hours crawling back & forth. For me it's souns more like boasting "Should we only move our finger & Russian poor idiot will crawl just like we want it". Such storys are good to tell to girls in a pub to get them to bed. "As far as the Soviets went, this got a little out of hand, for they started putting a KGB officer on board to stop the crew waving at us." We soon worked out that by moving our jet forwards and backwards we could get this poor idiot to spend hours crawling back and forth down this tunnel, just to stop the crew from waving at us."

May be it's better to remove this? It depicts American pilots as a complete morons, so removing depends on how much common it is... On the American side, the stories sometimes involved American pilots using offensive signs and gestures in reply to the Russians waving. Some US Navy pilots claim that they would fly alongside the Russian planes and hold up the latest issue of Playboy." --Oleg Str 08:52, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

The star was a symbol of the Soviet Union. The Union no longer exists. Simple. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.240.136.81 (talk) 15:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] "Only turboprop-powered bomber"?

"To date it remains the only turboprop-powered bomber to have been deployed."

I'm not deleting that passage, but I think it needs clarification. The Bear probably is the only turboprop-powered strategic bomber ever deployed, but I would argue that the US Navy's Lockheed P-3 Orion antisubmarine aircraft qualifies as a bomber.

Lyle F. Padilla (lpadilla@voicenet.com) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.103.47.158 (talk) 05:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC).