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 ...

A Paris Air Show tragedy 50 years ago marked the beginning of the end for supersonic travel. As aircraft roared overhead during the Paris Air Show on June 3, 1973, 12-year-old Marianne was playing ...

Early in the afternoon of July 25, 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed upon takeoff at the Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris. All 100 passengers and nine crew members on board, as well as four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...