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Across the world, forgotten airfields, jungles, and deserts hide some of aviation’s most captivating relics,abandoned planes ...
I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...
The 1973 ban effectively put a full-stop on SST (supersonic transport) innovation and commercial development, including the promising Boeing 2707 prototype, Tupolev Tu-144, and of course, the ...
1839 In Humen, Chinese official Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a reason to start the First Opium War. 1899 The great WG ...
Also in an adjacent hanger, but covered in dust is a Russian Concordski (officially a Tupolev Tu-144) and arguably the world’s biggest aviation failures which managed just 55 completed flights and ...
The Tupolev Tu-144, a product of the Soviet Union, never had the pretense of private development. The Council of Ministers approved its development in 1963 to fly no later than 1968.
A catastrophic 1973 Paris air show crash of the competing Russian airliner, Tupolev Tu-144, also shifted public perception on supersonic flight safety at a time when many airlines were considering ...
More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...
Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to ...
The Tu-144. Photo: NASA The TU-144LL Test-bed And so, in the fall of 1996, NASA, a team of US aircraft and engine manufacturers, and Russia's ANTK n.a. A. N. Tupolev began using the Russian TU-144 D ...
The Tupolev Tu-144S, brimming with a nation’s hopes of supremacy in the skies, embarked on a display to dazzle onlookers and outshine its Anglo-French counterpart. But on June 3, 1973, the ...
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