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By Yefim Gordon

The Tupolev Tu-104 Camel was once a twin-engined, medium-range, turbojet-powered airliner. Following the British-built Comet and Canadian Avro Jetliner, the Tu-104 grew to become the realm s 3rd jet airliner to take to the skies whilst it made its maiden flight in June 1956. Produced through the Tupolev layout bureau, the Tu-104 was once a civilian model in their jet bomber, the Tu-16 Badger . the 1st airplane may well hold 50 passengers, yet next variations observed this capability elevated to a hundred. a few two hundred plane have been synthetic by the point creation ceased in 1960. It used to be additionally flown by means of the Czech airline, CSA. Aeroflot s ultimate examples have been withdrawn within the early Nineteen Eighties, even though a host have been nonetheless utilized by the Soviet army professionals for education cosmonauts.
This quantity examines the advance and operational list of the Tu-104 from the early Fifties to the top of its occupation with the Soviet forces. The ebook makes a speciality of the kind s civilian occupation and examines all editions of the
Tu-104 produced, together with the prototype Tu-110 four-engined shipping airplane derived from the kind.

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J. Stone Cutting School, Chicago, Illinois Breast Bust Waist Neck 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 24 25 26 27 28–14 29 –12 30 –43 32 33–14 34 –12 35 –43 37 38 39 40 41 42 42–14 43 –12 44 –12 45 –12 20 20–14 20 –12 20 –43 21 21–14 21–12 22 22–12 23–14 24 24 –43 25 –12 26–14 27 27–43 28 –12 29–14 30 30 –43 31–14 11 11–14 11–12 11–43 12–12 12 –43 13 –18 13 –12 13–87 14–14 14 –58 15 15 –38 15 –43 16 –18 16 –12 16 –87 17–14 17 –58 18 18 –38 0 2 4 6 8 10 0 1 2 3 4 4 –12 5 5 –12 6 6 –12 7 7–14 7–12 7–43 8 Circumference (inches) Inside length of arm to elbow Full length sleeve Side length Depth of scye Blade Scye Natural waist length 11 11–12 12 12–12 13 13 –12 14 14 –12 15 15 –12 16 16 –12 17 17–12 18 18 –12 19 19–14 19 –12 19 –43 20 12 12–12 13 13 –12 14 14 –12 15 15–14 15 –12 15 –43 16 16 –18 16–14 16 –38 16 –12 16 –58 16 –43 – 1613 16 16 –87 – 1615 16 17 6–14 6 –12 6 –43 7 7–14 7–12 7–43 7–87 8 8 –18 8–14 –5 816 8 –38 –7 816 8 –12 –9 816 8 –58 11 – 816 8 –43 – 813 16 8–87 12–12 13 13 –12 14 14 –12 15 15 –12 15 –43 16 –1 1624 16 –12 16 –58 16 –43 16 –87 17 17–18 17–14 17–38 17–12 17 –58 17–43 6 –12 6 –43 7 7–14 7–12 7–43 8 –1 816 8 –18 –3 816 8–14 8–14 –1 816 –1 816 –1 816 –1 816 8 – 715 16 7–87 – 713 16 7–43 5 –12 5 –43 6 6–14 6 –12 6 –43 7 –3 716 7–38 –9 716 7–43 7–87 –3 816 –5 816 –7 816 –2 818 8 –43 –7 816 9 9–18 9–14 7–32 8 8 –13 8 –32 9 9 –13 9 –32 10 10 –13 10 –32 11 11 –13 11–32 12 12 –13 12 –32 13 12 –32 13 –12 14 14–14 Sizing in clothing Height (feet inches) History of sizing systems and ready-to-wear garments 33 measurements and were therefore an approximate fit.

3 Sizing for men’s garments A large number of size charts for men were published by the bespoke tailors; these charts correlated far better than those provided for women. 97 The 1914–1918 war not only gave a boost to the factory manufacture of clothing but also was a means of obtaining large quantities of men’s body measurements, as youths to middle-aged men were called up to fi ll the gaps left by the huge casualty rate. Different methods have been developed for using the body measurements from surveys to create ready-to-wear sizing.

75 Some manufacturers survived without this level of expertise; in these fi rms it was an accepted practice to buy a good jacket and to rip it apart to obtain a basic model pattern that could be graded and altered to fit. 3 Ready-to-wear tailoring in America Whist some ready-to-wear factory-made garments were produced in Britain, it was American manufacturers who began to apply standard sizing techniques to produce higher-quality ready-made garments. Some of the foundations for this were set in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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