The Tupolev Tu-144 is one amazing machine ... solution found by the French and installed pop-out canard wings on the nose. Speaking of the nose, this hinges down when landing because otherwise ...

The first thing you noticed about the Tu-144 was its lower nose that could be raised and lowered. This allowed the pilot and co-pilot to see their surroundings better on take-off and landing.

But during the approach the Tu-144 crew – perhaps emboldened to end the tame sequence with a flourish, and steal some of Concorde’s spotlight – cleaned the configuration, powered up the ...

At 3:39 that afternoon a Soviet Tu-144 supersonic passenger jet nose-dived above the children and then broke apart. "I saw absolutely everything," Marianne later recounted to a French journalist ...

Differences included the drooping nose (absent on Boeing 2707-300) and use of canards (present on Tu-144 and 2707-200), and wildly different engines, with the production Tu-144S requiring an ...

Both aircraft had ogival delta wings, yet the Tu-144 lacked the Concorde’s conical ... The aircraft broke up in midair, burst into flames and crashed into a nearby village, killing all six ...

During the dive, the Tu-144 broke up towards the bottom as pilot Mikhail Kozlov attempted to recover the aircraft. The ensuing accident killed all six Soviet crew members and two people on the ...