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

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 ...

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.

When the first Tupolev Tu-144 thundered its way into aeronautical history 50 years ago, lifting off from Zhukovksy airfield on the last day of 1968, much of the supersonic programme remained cloaked ...

The United States may yet emerge as the world leader in supersonic passenger jets, but the early days of SST technology belonged to the former Soviet Union and a consortium of British and French ...

Everyone knows about the Concorde, which shot across the Atlantic at over twice the speed of sound for decades. But it wasn't the only supersonic airliner. For a little while there was one more, and ...

Coronavirus vaccine, manned space flight. Russia has been first a a lot of things. But that holds less signifficance than they would like. by Caleb Larson Follow @calebmlarson on Twitter L Here's What ...

SITTING in a garden surrounded by rusting bits of metal lies the abandoned remains of Russia’s answer to Concorde. The Tupolev Tu-144 inevitably dubbed ‘Concordski’ was once the pride of its nation ...

A SOVIET Concorde that once soared through the sky at blistering speeds now sits in a graveyard after it met a tragic end. Following a fireball crash the plane has now been left to rot – surrounded by ...