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The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO reporting name "Charger") is a retired jet airliner, which was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft (SST). It is one of only two SSTs to enter commercial service, the other being the Anglo-French Concorde. The design was constructed in the Soviet Union under the direction of the Tupolev design bureau, headed by Alexei Tupolev. Throughout its 55-flight operational history, the Tu-144 flew at an average service altitude of 16,000 metres (52,000 ft) and cruised at a speed of around 2,000 kilometres per hour (1,200 mph).
The prototype first flew on 31 December 1968 near Moscow, two months before the first flight of Concorde. The Tu-144 first went supersonic on 5 June 1969, and on 26 May 1970 became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. A Tu-144 crashed in 1973 at the Paris Air Show, delaying its further development. The aircraft was introduced into passenger service on 1 November 1977, almost two years after Concorde, because of budget restrictions. In May 1978, another Tu-144 (an improved version, named Tu-144D) crashed in a test flight while being delivered, and the passenger fleet was permanently grounded after only 55 scheduled flights. The aircraft remained in use as a cargo aircraft until 1983, by which point a total of 102 commercial flights had been completed. The Tu-144 was later used by the Soviet space program to train pilots of the Buran spacecraft, and by NASA for supersonic research.
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Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 at the Paris airshow 1973 on the third day of the show on the 03/03/73, The Concorde prototype flew faultlessly however the Tu-144's flight didn't go quite as planned.
http://golfcharlie232.blogspot.com/ The Tupolev Tu-144 (Туполев Ту-144) was the world's first supersonic transport aircraft, built in USSR, and first flew in 1968, one year before the Anglo-French Concorde. She broke the sound barrier for the first time in june 1969.
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Bereits im Januarheft 1962 der Zeitschrift „Technik der Luftflotte" hatten Seljakow, Oscherow, Istomin und Dobrowski den Beitrag „Erforschung der Parameter eines Überschallverkehrsflugzeuges" veröffentlicht. Der Grundstein zur Entwicklung der Tu-144 wurde später, am 26. Juli 1963, per Befehl des Ministers für Luftfahrtindustrie Nr. 276ss gelegt. Vorausgegangen war die Festlegung Nr. 768-271 des Ministerrates der UdSSR vom 16. Juli 1963, wonach das Konstruktionsbüro Tupolew verpflichtet wurde, fünf flugtaugliche Exemplare in nur viereinhalb Jahren zu bauen. Die erste Maschine sollte schon 1966 fertig sein. Das Konstruktionsbüro Tupolew war zu diesem Zeitpunkt das einzige der Sowjetunion (und eines der wenigen weltweit), welches sowohl über Erfahrungen im Bau von Überschallflugzeugen (Tu-...
http://www.facebook.com/groups/savetu144group/ The 1973 Paris Air Show crash was the crash of the second production Tupolev Tu-144 at Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, which killed all six crew and a further eight people on the ground. The crash at the Paris Air Show on 3 June 1973 damaged the development program of the Tupolev Tu-144.It is possible that a French Mirage jet sent to photograph the aircraft without the knowledge of the Russian crew caused the pilots to take evasive maneuvers, resulting in the crash. Another theory is that in a rivalry with the Anglo-French Concorde, the pilots attempted a maneuver that was beyond the capabilities of the aircraft.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/savetu144group/ Part of the movie Les ailes du futur - 2l3 - Géants et supersoniques civils Hero of the Russian Federation, the test pilot 1st class captain Sergey Borisov talks about Tupolev Tu-144 LL flight testing. In July, 1983 this aircraft was designated as "101" and established 14 world records. These records were including a height of flight of 18,200 m with payload from 10 to 30 tons, average speed of 2,031.55 km/h on a closed circuit of 1,000 km and 2,012.26 km/h on a closed circuit of 2,000 km. When the TU-144 program was cancelled, CCCP-77114 was used as research aircraft in experiments about the radiation in top layers of the atmosphere, ozone layer, thermal influence in different materials and studies on aerodynamics. In 1990 was placed in ...
Russian documentary with English commentary about the 1960's Soviet supersonic jet plane, the Aeroflot Tupolev TU-144. The film shows design and construction of the TU-144 as well as early flight tests including takeoff and landing sequences. . . Ella73TV - https://www.youtube.com/user/Ella73TV2 - A curated collection of old films, newsreels & archive footage spanning the 20th century.
3. Juni 1973: Der Flugplatz von Le Bourget wird zum Schauplatz des Kalten Kriegs. Ost und West wollen ihre technische Leistungsfähigkeit unter Beweis stellen. Das Kräftemessen endet in einer Katastrophe. Die Sowjetunion präsentiert ihr Überschallflugzeug, die Tupolev TU-144, Frankreich wartet mit der Concorde auf. Während eines Sinkflugs explodiert die TU-144 vor laufenden Kameras -- unter Umständen, die bis heute nicht vollständig geklärt sind. Es war der spektakuläre Höhepunkt eines erbitterten Zweikampfs. Mitte der 1960er Jahre arbeiteten Wissenschaftler auf beiden Seiten des Eisernen Vorhangs an einer Revolution der zivilen Luftfahrt: 1962 legten Franzosen und Briten den Grundstein für das Concorde-Projekt. Nur wenige Jahre später begann der sowjetische Chefingenieur Andrei Tupolev mit...