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The Tu-144 was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft with its prototype's maiden flight from Zhukovsky Airport on 31 December 1968, two months before the British-French Concorde. [ 1 ] : 76 [ 3 ] The Tu-144 was a product of the Tupolev Design Bureau, an OKB headed by aeronautics pioneer Aleksey Tupolev , and 16 aircraft ...
The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash of Sunday 3 June 1973 destroyed the second production model of the Russian supersonic Tupolev Tu-144.The aircraft disintegrated in the air while performing extreme manoeuvres and fell on the town of Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, killing all six crew members and eight people on the ground.
ANT-1: The first aircraft by A.N.T. and the first Soviet-built aircraft. Mixed materials design. The work started in 1921. Assembly began in 1922. First flight took place in 1923. The tests were cancelled due to engine malfunction. ANT-2: Two passenger aircraft. The first Soviet all-metal aircraft, 1924.
On September 20, 1972, [4] the supersonic Tu-144 aircraft made its first flight on the Moscow-Tashkent-Moscow route. [5] The cruising speed of the airliner reached 2,500 km/h, and it covered the distance from Moscow to Tashkent in 1 hour and 50 minutes. [3] [5]
Its main design elements, like the delta-shaped wings and the thin, long fuselage were replicated by both Concorde and its Soviet clone, the Tupolev Tu-144, which even sported two “canards” or ...
The world ' s first supersonic transport enters service, when the Tupolev Tu-144 makes its first commercial flight for Aeroflot, carrying air mail and freight on a domestic service in the Soviet Union between Moscow and Alma-Ata. [52] The Tu-144 will not begin passenger service until November 1977.
[6] [7] The flight plan for the Tu-144 had been modified at the last minute, leaving the crew less time to complete their demonstration. [8] On 3 June, the last day of the airshow, the Tu-144 flew after Concorde's demonstration flight. [9] During the Tu-144 demonstration, Kozlov flew the plane low along Runway 060. [10]
Two flight engineers were killed in the ensuing crash, but the remaining six crew members survived. The accident prompted a ban on passenger flights of the Tu-144, which had already been beset by numerous problems, leading to a lack of interest that ultimately resulted in the Tu-144 program's cancellation.