Questions tagged [tu-204]
A medium-range twinjet airliner produced very slowly by Tupolev since 1989.
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Why is the Tu-204 virtually immune to wing and tail icing?
Atmospheric icing is extremely hazardous to heavier-than-air aircraft, as it badly disrupts their ability to generate aerodynamic lift (the inherent roughness of accreted ice encourages the airflow to ...
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What kind of flight-control redundancy does the Tu-204 have?
The Russian Tupolev Tu-204 and variants are reported to be digital fly-by-wire. Are they quadruplex redundant? Do they have manual or analog back-up systems?