The Tupolev Tu-144 is one amazing machine, built, like so many cool things, during the Cold War. While the British and French were busy with their delta-winged Concorde supersonic airliner ...

The Tu-144’s extra weight stemmed from the extra wheels it had to carry under its wings. Unlike the French-Anglo Concorde, the Soviet Tu-144’ landing gear had a whopping 12 wheels.

Allocated a display slot to fly after Concorde on 3 June, the Tu-144 was supposed to perform an 11min sequence, taking off from runway 03 and accelerating for a return pass, before a slower second ...

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 ...

Not to be outdone by their aviation rivals in the west, the Soviet Union built and briefly flew its own supersonic commercial jet, the Tupolev Tu-144. Sixteen were built and a handful remain.

The USSR’s Tupolev Tu-144 looked remarkably similar to its Concorde competitor, when it was unveiled at the Paris Air Show in 1971, earning it the nickname of "Concordski". Compared to its Anglo ...

The Tupolev Tu-144 inevitably dubbed ‘Concordski’ was once the pride of its nation but incredible pictures show one of the 1400mph planes in a semi-dilapidated state. But the rivalry between ...

The Tupolev Tu-144 Charger supersonic transport aircraft crashed during the Paris Air Show near Le Bourget airport 40 years ago, on June 3, 1973. Watch this archive video showing how the famous ...

At the time that the Concorde was being developed, there wasn’t just the competition from the Tu-144 team, but also the Boeing 2702 (pictured) and Lockheed L-2000, with the latter two ultimately ...

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