Image by Creative Commons license The Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation Museum is currently restoring its Tupolev Tu-144, the world’s first supersonic passenger jet. The project coincides with the 90th anniversary of […]
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Tupolev is ready to restore one of the Tu-144 for use as a flying laboratory
Photo by © Russian Aviation Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev, as part of the educational marathon “Knowledge. Firsts” noted on November 6 that a return to the development of passenger […]
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Tu-144D – history and development of supersonic aviation
Photo by Creative Commons license On 30 November 1974, the modernised supersonic passenger aircraft Tu-144D made its maiden flight. The machine was lifted into the sky by the crew of […]
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To the anniversary of the first flight of the Tu-144 flying laboratory
Photo by Creative Commons license On November 29, 1996, the Tu-144LL flying laboratory, which was created within the framework of the Russian Second Generation Supersonic Passenger Aircraft (SPA-2) programme and […]
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