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 ...
The Concorde jet was one of the crowning achievements in aviation. It was a supersonic passenger jet, meaning that it broke the speed of sound while flying. Your average Boeing 737-800 flying with ...
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The Soviet jet that beat Concorde into the sky
This documentary tells the story of the Tupolev Tu-144, the Soviet Union’s answer to the Concorde. Developed amid intense ...
To many, when they think of supersonic airliners, they instantly think of Concorde. The joint Anglo-French aircraft that served for nearly 30 years, ferrying people across the Atlantic at Mach 2.
Here’s What You Need To Remember: The problems Concorde experienced were due to regulations and market forces, rather than shortcomings inherent to the airframe itself. The Soviet-built Tu-144 ...
Ever since the supersonic Concorde was grounded in 2003, airline passengers — at least, wealthy airline passengers—have yearned for the return of faster-than-sound transit. Today, a trip from New York ...
CONCORDE: THE UNTOLD STORY is a two-episode documentary that goes inside the race to build the first supersonic airliner at the height of the Cold War, with Europe's Concorde racing against the Soviet ...
As 25 July marks the 20-year anniversary of Concorde’s fatal crash, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the famed supersonic jet. November 1956 The Supersonic Transport Aircraft ...
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