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T he first aircraft, built by Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev.
A.N.Tupolev started to work on this project in
1911, but started construction only in
1922. At that time he was a member of
TsAGI task force, which was concentrated on all-metal aircraft designs. ANT-1 was of a
mixed design, but it was the first Soviet-built aircraft including home-made metal elements (fuselage frame). Small aircraft
became also a testbed for cantilever wing.
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Flights started October 20, 1923 (E.I.Pogosskij, N.I.Petrov), performance was
good. But after few flights old worn engine started losing power and was found unrepairable.
Aircraft was on exposition for a while in a museum, vanished during the Great Patriotic War, probably in
1941, when many organizations were evacuated from endangered capital.
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