It was faster than Concorde and carried more passengers - but behind the speed and prestige, the Tu-144 was plagued with danger. From a shocking crash at the 1973 Paris Air Show to an unreliable and ...

31 December 1968 Concorde’s Soviet rival, the Tupolev Tu-144, took off for the first time from a runway to the side of the factory where it was built in Zhukovski, southeast of Moscow. The plane was ...

Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience with active duty experience in the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed ...

15:15, Tue, Oct 21, 2025 Updated: 15:31, Tue, Oct 21, 2025 In recent years there’s been a lot of fuss about Boom Supersonic, the American aircraft company currently developing its successor to ...

In the annals of aviation history, the Tupolev Tu-144 holds a unique place as Russia’s ambitious entry into supersonic commercial flight. Its development began in the 1960s, mirroring the efforts of ...

It was the Cold War’s battle for the skies: the sleek British-French Concorde versus the USSR’s bold Tu-144. Who really won the supersonic race—and why did both disappear from the skies? Gavin Newsom ...

The Concorde may have been a game-changing jet when it entered service in 1976, but a rival Russian jet—the Tupolev Tu-144—happened to be in the air one year earlier. The earlier service, however, was ...

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Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first supersonic flight last month was a success, breaking the sound barrier above the ...