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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft. It’s now ...

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 ...

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.

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 Engineers in the US also tried to develop a supersonic plane, but government funding was withdrawn in 1971 ...