Which Routes Did The Tupolev Tu-144 Serve During Its Short Career?
The final nail in the coffin for the Tupolev Tu-144 came on Sunday, June 3, 1973, during the Paris Air Show when, while ...
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Tupolev Tu-144: The Story Of The Soviet Supersonic Concorde Competitor
The Russian-built Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger plane ever to fly, but it had some built-in flaws. Bigger, heavier, and less technologically advanced than Concorde, its ...
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NASA's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Fires Up Engine For The First Time Ahead Of First Flight
X-59's engine started for testing for the first time. NASA's Quesst ("Quiet SuperSonic Technology") mission recently reached ...
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Concorde made its final flight over 20 years ago and supersonic air travel has yet to return. Here's a look at its incredible history.
The American Boeing 2707 never made it past the drawing board, while the Soviets' Tupolev TU-144 made it into service but was quickly retired because of performance and safety problems.
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New jets promise to revive supersonic travel
It's the first civilian supersonic aircraft since the Soviet Union's Tupolev TU-144 in 1968. The skinny, sharply-pointed machine will allow Boom to confirm aspects of the design of its proposed ...
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HISTORY of Mechanical ENGINEERING
It is one of only two SSTs to have entered commercial service; the other was the Tupolev Tu-144. Concorde was jointly developed and produced by Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) ...
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Russia’s newly-built Tu-160M strategic bomber named after first woman in space
BANGALORE /India/, February 14. /TASS/. The first Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber built under the resumed production program has been named after the Soviet cosmonaut and the ...
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First newly-built Tupolev Tu-160M bomber to be delivered this year
MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. The first newly-built Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber will be delivered before the end of this year, head of the United Aircraft Corporation Yury ...
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Ukrainian drone destroys Russian supersonic bomber
Images posted on social media and analysed by BBC Verify show a Tupolev Tu-22M on fire at Soltsy-2 airbase, south of St Petersburg. Moscow said that a drone was hit by small-arms fire but managed ...
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China’s Yunxing Jet Completes Test Flight, Eyes Supersonic Commercial Travel by 2027
In a major milestone for the next generation of aviation, Space Transportation, a Beijing-based aerospace company, announced on October 27 that its high-speed jet prototype, Yunxing, completed a ...
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The Politics Of Supersonic Flight: The Concord(e)
Planes such as the De Haviland Comet, Tupolev TU-104, Sud Aviation Caravelle, and Boeing Dash-80 prototype are the visible ancestors of today’s airliners, but just as the future of jet fighter ...
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Ukraine war latest: Russian Tu-134 transport aircraft set ablaze over 1,000 km from Ukraine, military intelligence claims
The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined airliner produced in the Soviet Union from 1966-89. Following the crash of a Tu-134 in 2011, which killed 47 people , it was fully withdrawn from commercial ...