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.

The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

In 1973, the Paris Air Show was more than an aviation expo. It was a global stage for a symbolic East versus West confrontation. The Soviets arrived with their pride and joy, the Tu 144, determined to ...

But during the approach the Tu-144 crew – perhaps emboldened to end the tame sequence with a flourish, and steal some of Concorde’s spotlight – cleaned the configuration, powered up the Kuznetsov ...

15:15, Tue, Oct 21, 2025 Updated: 15:31, Tue, Oct 21, 2025 In recent years there’s been a lot of fuss about Boom Supersonic, the American aircraft company currently developing its successor to ...

But you may not know the Soviets had their own version of the Concorde called the Tupolev-144. It was nicknamed the “Communist Concordski,” and it actually flew before the Anglo-French Concorde. But ...