The 1960s were a period of change, transition and unstoppable optimism. It was the age when propeller driven aircraft had all but been phased out by jets, man had successfully gone to space and ...

Its maiden flight lasted for a little over half an hour and failed to reach the Mach speed it was engineered for. But when the Tupolev Tu-144 successfully took to the air on December 31, 1968, it gave ...

The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

In the early 1970s the Anglo-French Concorde and the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, dubbed Concordski, were vying to become the world's first supersonic airliner. Both planes were nearly ready for ...

May 26: The Soviet supersonic jet dubbed Concordski became the first passenger plane to fly at twice the speed of sound on this day in 1970. The Tupolev Tu-144 is believed to have been developed using ...

THE Concorde will go down in history for being an icon of supersonic passenger travel – but it was actually beaten to the skies by a lesser-known jet created by the Russians. The USSR’s Tupolev Tu-144 ...

But you may not know the Soviets had their own version of the Concorde called the Tupolev-144. It was nicknamed the “Communist Concordski,” and it actually flew before the Anglo-French Concorde. But ...

It was the world’s first supersonic airliner—but it couldn’t compete. The Tu-144 promised to outpace Concorde, yet its afterburners burned out in 50 hours, landings needed parachutes, and passengers ...

It's not often that we get to write about an airplane, but very few modern birds have an interesting story to tell. The Tupolev Tu-144 is one amazing machine, built, like so many cool things, during ...

May 26: The Soviet supersonic jet dubbed Concordski became the first passenger plane to fly at twice the speed of sound on this day in 1970. The Tupolev Tu-144 is believed to have been developed using ...