Howard Sochurek was a photographer for Life magazine. He joined Life in 1950 and worked in many countries including the Soviet Union. His photos of Soviet airplanes taken in 1958 are shown below.
Vnukovo airport.
Passenger airplane.
Passenger salon of the new Soviet Il-18.
The photo was taken in the airport.
Pilot of the Tu-104.
An engine of a new Soviet passenger airplane at the airport.
“Tu”
Inside a Soviet passenger plane.
Pilot is having dinner in the cabin.
Pilot is smoking in the cabin.
Sleeping passengers in the Tu-104.
The stewardess is making a call.
A woman and her dog are inside the plane.
Passengers.
The stewardess is supplying passengers with journals.
Kiev airport.
Tashkent airport.
The photos were taken in the Tashkent airport.
Other passengers are waiting for their flight in Tashkent.
A stewardess.
The passengers are flying from Tashkent to Moscow.
The passengers entertain themselves during their flight to Moscow. Mr. Sochurek was the first photographer who used his computer to color and manipulate photos. He has been working for Life for two decades.
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Some days it’s like reading ‘Jack and Jill’ books
Barrie Davey’s point is well taken.
Barrie Davey is a whiny bitch, and ER has never been ” very informative, historic site, with lots of wonderful, well documented photographs.”
LOL WTF blog has he been reading? The content of ER may have changed some over the years (although LOTS of updates are actually reposts from a few months/years ago), and the website is a little more polished looking then it used to be, but it’s always been a hack job of bad HTML, stolen photos and video without proper attribution or permission to use, with their own made up or embellished BS captions added in for fun.
Excellent photography by Mr. Sochurek. Looking through Life magazine was always a treat. Thanks for posting an outstanding series.
I also agree with Barrie Daviey’s comments, but at least we can still comment on the main ER pages. The forum has collapsed into all spam with the regular members locked out.