Tupolev Tu-404

The Tupolev Tu-404 was a wide-body superjumbo jet airliner proposed by the Russian aerospace company Tupolev, a blended wing design intended to carry more than 1,200 passengers over 12,000 to 13,000 km. Work began in 1991 in parallel with another wide-body design, the Tu-304. Tupolev studied several configurations. The flying wing would have had six pusher turboprop engines at the tail between two large V-shaped stabilizers, a central fuselage with six passenger compartments for 1,214 passengers and removable outer wings holding most of the fuel, with a span of 110 m and a range of 13,500 km. The conventional design was a two-level airliner for 1,200 people with a cargo deck below, either mixed or all-cargo, powered by four Kuznetsov NK-44 or Rolls-Royce Trent engines. The project did not proceed beyond marketing models.