Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Tu-144 reportedly flew a paltry 102 flights, only 55 of which actually carried any passengers. Compared to its arch-rival Concorde, the Tu-144 was a fiasco, ...

To many, when they think of supersonic airliners, they instantly think of Concorde. The joint Anglo-French aircraft that served for nearly 30 years, ferrying people across the Atlantic at Mach 2.

It's not often that we get to write about an airplane, but very few modern birds have an interesting story to tell. The Tupolev Tu-144 is one amazing machine, built, like so many cool things, during ...

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 ...

THE Concorde will go down in history for being an icon of supersonic passenger travel – but it was actually beaten to the skies by a lesser-known jet created by the Russians. The USSR’s Tupolev Tu-144 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Tu-144 reportedly flew a paltry 102 flights, only 55 of which actually carried any passengers. Compared to its arch-rival Concorde, the Tu-144 was a fiasco, ...