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 Tu-144 reportedly flew a paltry 102 flights, only 55 of which actually carried any passengers. Compared to its arch-rival Concorde, the Tu-144 was a fiasco, ...

After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...

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.

While the French and British were working together to create the Concorde, the Soviets had their own version of the supersonic aircraft, called Tu-144. In total, the Russian made sixteen aircraft, ...

If you boil it down to the basic facts, the era of commercial supersonic flight was a European phenomenon. Concorde, its ...

In an unusual economic collaboration, a leading manufacturer of Russian warplanes has joined forces with the American aerospace industry to carry out research for a supersonic passenger plane for the ...

Developed in the 1960s/1970s, the Tu-144 was the Soviet Union's only practical venture into supersonic commercial aviation. Though its career was all too brief, it was a major technological ...

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 ...