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The Tu-144 crash - The Paris Air Show disaster that shattered a Soviet dream
The Tu-144 arrived at the 1973 Paris Air Show as the Soviet Union’s answer to Concorde and a symbol of Cold War prestige.
AFTER WEEKS OF rain and fog at Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airfield, site of the Soviet Union’s top flight test center, New Year’s Eve 1968 dawned with more of the same. This was immensely discouraging for ...
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 ...
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Why the Soviet Union won the supersonic airliner race and still lost
The Tu-144 beat Concorde into the air, but that early victory hid a deeper problem. Britannica notes that the Soviet jet ...
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