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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.


Tupolev Tu144 Technik Museum Sinsheim Germany

On 31 December 1968 the first prototype of the Tupolev 144 was rising into the skies. The "Concorde" did not follow until 2 March 1969. The immense likeness of the Tu-144 to the "Concorde" naturally gave rise to the suspicion of industrial espionage, but ultimately it was impossible to prove this conjecture. The roll-out of the nearly.


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Join me in this guided tour of a Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic passenger airliner on display at the Technik Museum Sinsheim. It includes a tour around the cockpi.


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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.


The Tupolev Tu144 first flew 50 years ago International Flight Network

The Tupolev Tu-144 was the Soviet rival to the Anglo-French Concorde, but its rushed development made it notoriously unreliable and unpleasant to fly. The plane's engines did not have a reverse.


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On Sunday, June 3, 1973, the sky was bright with scattered clouds over the grounds of the Paris Air Show in Val-d'Oise. The stars of the show that year were two supersonic transport (SST) aircraft: the Anglo-French Con­corde and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144. Supersonic travel for civilians was a novel and exciting concept, and interest in the two SSTs was high.


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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 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.


Tupolev Tu144 İstenci

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 didn't fly for long. However, being the first supersonic commercial plane to hit the skies, there were several factors to consider when designing the aircraft before it was introduced in 1975. The first to the post . British-French turbojet Concorde flew for the first time on March 2nd, 1969.


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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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Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger aircraft developed by Tupolev Design Bureau in the 60s in the Soviet Union. Often compared to its Western counterpart, Aerospatiale / BAC Concorde, Tu- 144 was the largest and heaviest transport aircraft in aviation history that reached Mach 2. Concorde vs Tu-144 The race for creating the first supersonic


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The Tu-144 carried 140 passengers onboard, with 11 in first class and 129 in economy. It would fly at a stunning Mach 2.15 (2,300 km/h or 1,429 mph). But it only had a range of 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km), 400 nautical miles shorter than the Concorde. The Tu-144 only ever flew one route, Moscow to Almaty once a week with just 14 production.


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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 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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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).

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