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The Tupolev Tu-144 is a Soviet supersonic airliner developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1960s. Making its maiden flight on December 1968, the Tu-144.
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The Tupolev Tu-144, taking off. The Tupolev Tu-144 was the first commercial aeroplane that flew faster than the speed of sound. Built in RUSSKIYAS by Tupolev, it is similar to the Concorde. The Tupolev Tu-144 only flew for Aeroflot, the national soviet airline. Only sixteen examples were built. Its maiden flight was on December 31, 1968.
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The epic journey of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner encapsulated the Soviet Union's ambition to conquer the skies and push the limits of technology du.
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A model of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic passenger aircraft being prepared for structural testing at a facility near Moscow in 1971. In the Soviet Union, with the space race ongoing, the quest for.
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The centerpiece of the project was the Tu-144LL, a former first-generation Russian supersonic jetliner that was modified by its developer, Tupolev ANTK, into a flying laboratory for supersonic research. Using the Tu-144LL to conduct flight experiments allowed researchers to compare full-scale supersonic aircraft flight data with results from.
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The Tupolev Tu-144 was designed by Tupolev as a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner and was the first commercial supersonic transport in the world. The aircraft performed its first flight in December 1968 and was operated from 1968 until 1999.
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Subscribe to Dark Docs: http://bitly.com/DarkDocsPictured: The aggressive take-off profile of the Soviet TU-144 supersonic passenger airplane (right) vs. the.
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The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash was the destruction of the second production Tupolev Tu-144 at Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, which killed all six crew members and eight people on the ground. The crash, at the Paris Air Show on Sunday, 3 June 1973, damaged the development program of the Tupolev Tu-144.. One theory is that a French Mirage jet sent to photograph the aircraft without the.
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The beginning of the end of the Tu-144 project came in 1973, when both supersonic aircraft were set to wow the crowds at the Paris Air Show. In front of 200,000 spectators, Concorde took off and flew a flawless demonstration in the Parisian skies above Le Bourget. After this, it was the turn of the Tupolev Tu-144.
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In fact, it was the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144. An aircraft dubbed "Konkordski" by the West as it looked so similar to the Concorde. However, this aircraft did beat its Western counterpart to the.
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The Tupolev Tu-144 (Russian: Tyполев Ту-144; NATO reporting name: Charger) is a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner designed by Tupolev in operation from 1968 to 1999.. The Tu-144 was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft with its prototype's maiden flight from Zhukovsky Airport on 31 December 1968, two months before the British-French Concorde.
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It is the Tupolev Tu-144, the communist Concorde, and the first passenger aircraft to fly more than twice the speed of sound. Its first flight comes three months before Concorde takes to the air.
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The Tupolev Tu-144 embarked on its inaugural flight on December 31, 1968, and upon its unveiling to the West, many noticed similarities between the Tu-144 and the actual Concorde. This similarity in looks and design of the Tu-144 was a direct result of stolen Western documents, which the Soviets used in designing their supersonic passenger.
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The Tu-144 was a huge aircraft, with a maximum take-off weight of 220 tons - 22 tons more than the Concorde. Its wings were 30 percent larger in surface area, and the fuselage was 4 metres longer. The Tu-144 is an enormous aircraft . Due to the extra weight, the Tu-144 needed more muscle.
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The Tu-144 conducted its first flight on December 31st, 1968, which was notably two months before the legendary Concorde. It departed Zhukovsky Airport to make history that day, which was the location where I toured inside a unit of the type - 53 years later! Aeroflot briefly operated the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144.
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Tupolev Tu-144, world's first supersonic transport aircraft, designed by the veteran Soviet aircraft designer Andrey N. Tupolev and his son Alexey.It was test-flown in December 1968, exceeded the speed of sound in June 1969, and was first publicly shown in Moscow in May 1970. In its production model the Tu-144 was 65.7 metres (215.6 feet) in length, with a wingspan of 28.8 metres (94.5 feet).
