Tupolev Tu 144 Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/tupolev-tu-144/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:17:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://aviospace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/463575282_2477404082464408_3209599391009761950_n-150x150.jpg Tupolev Tu 144 Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/tupolev-tu-144/ 32 32 Tupolev Tu-144 – The Soviet Concorde: Why the Supersonic Jet Failed? https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-144-soviet-concorde-failure-story/ https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-144-soviet-concorde-failure-story/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:37:47 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=9446 The name is Tupolev Tu-144. In Russian, you’d call it Туполев Ту-144. The NATO reporting name for the Tu-144 is “Charger”. You might have other labels thrown at it: Concordski or the communist Concorde. For NASA, it was “a supersonic flying laboratory”. Given that the Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic airliner to take to […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-144-soviet-concorde-failure-story/feed/ 1 Tupolev Tu-104: The Groundbreaking Innovation in Soviet aerospace engineering https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-104-soviet-engineering/ https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-104-soviet-engineering/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:20:15 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=9212 Although the Soviet Union was mired in swashbuckling bureaucracy before its dissolution into Russia, there were a lot of Engineering marvels it produced. The first dog to make it to space was a USSR-ian, and so was the first person, the first spacewalker, and much more*. Despite such a brilliant track record, the Tupolev Tu-104 […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/tupolev-tu-104-soviet-engineering/feed/ 0 From 10 km/h to Mach 2.15: How Commercial Aircraft Speeds Have Changed https://aviospace.org/commercial-aircraft-speed-evolution/ https://aviospace.org/commercial-aircraft-speed-evolution/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:16:28 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=3922 It has been just over a century since passengers have been able to fly commercially. During this time, we have seen giants such as the Airbus A380, which has the capacity to transport more than 850 passengers and set a record for being the biggest commercial aircraft ever. Aircraft like the A380 necessitate a different […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/commercial-aircraft-speed-evolution/feed/ 0 Concorde Flew at Mach 2.04. Are Supersonic Airliners Finally Coming Back? https://aviospace.org/concorde-mach-2-supersonic-airliners-comeback/ https://aviospace.org/concorde-mach-2-supersonic-airliners-comeback/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:37:55 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=1750 Concorde was one aircraft whose sleek, luxury, and speed have not yet found a worthy replacement. Aviation lovers are nostalgic about the times it just glided through the skies at twice the speed of sound. Much like many beauties, it had its rival- the Tupolev Tu-144, which debuted two months before the Concorde and was […]

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