The TU 144 was meant to be the Soviet Union’s answer to the Concorde, but the rush to beat the West came at a cost. Engineers ...
Since the last Concorde touched down for the final time in 2003, commercial aviation has operated at a curious standstill.
This documentary tells the story of the Tupolev Tu-144, the Soviet Union’s answer to the Concorde. Developed amid intense ...
Boom Technologies, on the other hand, founded in 2014, continues to market the development of a Concorde-like supersonic ...
The Avro Vulcan, a thunderous and charismatic Cold War bomber, is the most well-known British bomber after the wartime ...
BA and Air France both operated one more Concorde than they had intended due to aircraft being built for other customers, but not delivered.
Concorde and Tupolev are acknowledged as some of the first planes to break the sound barrier, but this aircraft did it first, almost a decade before.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...