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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. [ 2 ] 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 ...
The Tu-144 and Concorde were structurally different aircraft designs. Differences between the two supersonic aircraft. The Tu-144 did not have vortices over its wing to provide extra lift at low speed. There were no overseas demonstration sales flights, which Concorde had attempted. The engines were not flight tested before the Tu-144 had first ...
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.
Its main design elements, like the delta-shaped wings and the thin, long fuselage were replicated by both Concorde and its Soviet clone, the Tupolev Tu-144, which even sported two “canards” or ...
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000
After removal of its wings and tail fin, it traveled by barge and road, to join a Tupolev Tu-144 already exhibited at Sinsheim. It had flown 14,771 hours. [32] [33] [34] This is the only instance of both supersonic passenger aircraft on display together. [35] F-BVFC (209) first flew on 9 July 1976 from Toulouse.
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 ...
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