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The Tu-144 remained in commercial service as a cargo aircraft until the cancellation of the Tu-144 program in 1983. The Tu-144 was later used by the Soviet space program to train pilots of the Buran spacecraft, and by NASA for supersonic research until 1999. The Tu-144 made its final flight on 26 June 1999 and surviving aircraft were put on ...
The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash of Sunday 3 June 1973 destroyed the second production model of the Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144.The aircraft disintegrated in the air while performing extreme manoeuvres and fell on the town of Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, killing all six crew members and eight people on the ground.
The aircraft was a supersonic Tupolev Tu-144D, registered CCCP-77111, built at the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association facility and destined for Soviet flag carrier Aeroflot. It had first flown on 27 April 1978 and completed test flights on 12 May, 16 May, and 18 May, as well as another test flight earlier on the day of the accident.
A front-on view of the Tupolev Tu-144 on the ground. Note the deployed retractable canards and lowered droop nose. The Tupolev Tu-144, a contemporary counterpart to Concorde that was developed by the Soviet Union, also featured a droop nose. Its configuration was not identical to that of Concorde however as the visor of the Tu-144 was fixed to ...
Although the Tu-144 does show great similarities with Concorde, and was designed and developed concurrently, it was not a direct copy, as has often been alleged.But, due to harsh self-imposed constraints of time, there were attempts by Soviet insiders to gain access to technological secrets of the development of Concorde.
Kozlov was chosen to pilot the Tu-144 registered СССР-77102 [5] at the Paris Airshow in 1973. [6] [7] The flight plan for the Tu-144 had been modified at the last minute, leaving the crew less time to complete their demonstration. [8] On 3 June, the last day of the airshow, the Tu-144 flew after Concorde's demonstration flight. [9]
Concorde and the Tu-144 were both constructed of conventional aluminum: Concorde of Hiduminium and Tu-144 of duralumin. Modern, advanced materials were not to come out of development for a few decades. These materials, such as carbon fibre and Kevlar are much stronger for their weight (important to deal with stresses) as well as being more ...
The Tupolev Tu-244 was a proposed supersonic transport (SST) aircraft, developed from the Tu-144. It implemented novel features such as cryogenic fuel to enable flight distances of up to 10,000 km (6,200 mi) and would have carried up to 300 passengers.