TASS/. A Russian serially produced supersonic passenger jet can be ready by 2030-2031, General Manager of the Russian Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute Kirill Sypalo said on Monday. "It will ...
There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde ... was designed in the 1960s when it seemed like supersonic passenger transport was going to be the next big thing.
MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. Russian Tu-160 supersonic bombers (NATO reporting name of Blackjack) broke the world record for longest non-stop flight for this type of aircraft, Lieutenant-General ...
American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now ...
Reaching speeds of up to 1,510 mph (2,430 km/h), the Tupolev Tu-144 holds the title of one of the fastest commercial planes in history. This Soviet supersonic transport aircraft (SST) was the initial ...
The Russian-built Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger plane ever to fly, but it had some built-in flaws. Bigger, heavier, and less technologically advanced than Concorde, its ...
and by the 1970s we had supersonic passenger flight. There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British supersonic airliner operated by British Airways and Air France ...
This is the topic of a documentary that recently aired on Channel 4 in the UK called Concorde: The Race for Supersonic, yet what is the evidence that the Soviet Tu-144 truly was just a Concorde ...
The Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144 was the first one to conduct test flights in 1968. Engineers in the US also tried to develop a supersonic plane, but government funding was withdrawn in 1971 ...