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    The Tupolev Tu-144 (Russian: Tyполев Ту-144; NATO reporting name: Charger) is a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner designed by Tupolev in operation from...
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    The 1978 Yegoryevsk Tu-144 crash occurred during a test flight of a Tupolev Tu-144 on 23 May 1978. The aircraft suffered a fuel leak, which led to an in-flight...
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    1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash of Sunday 3 June 1973 destroyed the second production model of the Russian supersonic Tupolev Tu-144. The aircraft disintegrated...
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    in Basmanny District, Moscow. Tupolev is successor to the Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau (OKB-156, design office prefix Tu) founded in 1922 by aerospace...
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    The Tupolev Tu-244 was a proposed supersonic transport (SST) aircraft, developed from the Tu-144. It implemented novel features such as cryogenic fuel...
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    world records. Tupolev produced many notable designs such as the Tu-2, Tu-16, Tu-95, and Tu-104, and the reverse engineered Tu-4. Tupolev was highly honoured...
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  • supersonic passenger jet, the Tupolev Tu-144. He also helped design the Buran space shuttle and the long-range heavy bomber Tu-2000, both of which were suspended...
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    The Tupolev Tu-160 (Russian: Туполев Ту-160 «Белый лебедь», romanized: Bely Lebed, lit. 'White Swan'; NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a supersonic,...
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    Concorde (section Tu-144)
    limited it to transoceanic flights only. Its only competitor was the Tupolev Tu-144, carrying passengers from November 1977 until a May 1978 crash, while...
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    The Tupolev Tu-334 (Russian: Туполев Ту-334) was a Russian short-to-medium range airliner project that was developed to replace the aging Tu-134s and Yak-42s...
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    research and military purposes, but only two supersonic aircraft, the Tupolev Tu-144 (first flown on December 31, 1968) and the Concorde (first flown on...
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    see regular service have been Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144. The last passenger flight of the Tu-144 was in June 1978 and it was last flown in 1999...
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    The Tupolev Tu-154 (Russian: Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s...
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    Kuznetsov NK-144 is an afterburning turbofan engine made by the Soviet Kuznetsov Design Bureau. Used on the early models of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic...
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  • delivered to Aeroflot in 1984. The carrier started flying the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 on freighter services in 1975. On 1 November 1977 (1977-11-01), the...
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    typically been installed on supersonic airliners such as Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144; and high-speed experimental aircraft, such as the record-breaking Fairey...
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    entered service: the Aérospatiale/British Aerospace Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144. Both were designed with government subsidies and did not recoup development...
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    decided to end servicing arrangements. Its Soviet counterpart, the Tupolev Tu-144, was less successful, operating for only 55 passenger flights before...
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  • configuration, and era Bristol Type 223 Boeing 2707 Lockheed L-2000 Tupolev Tu-144 Related lists List of airliners Operators’ reference drawing [1], [2]...
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    Tupolev interceptors " Tupolev Tu-144, Gordon, Komissarov and Rigmant 2015,Schiffer Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-0-7643-4894-5, p.248 PSC «Tupolev» - TU-144...
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  • Boeing B-29 Tupolev Tu-6 Tupolev Tu-8 Tupolev Tu-12 Tupolev Tu-14 Tupolev Tu-16 "88" Tupolev Tu-22 "105" Tupolev Tu-22M "145" Tupolev Tu-70 prototype...
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    successes and failures of the British/French Concorde and the Russian Tupolev Tu-144, as well as a previous NASA Supersonic Transport (SST) program from...
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    mechanical pressing, and others. In 1968, Serial production of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic plane was established at the Voronezh Aviation factory. In...
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  • As the co-pilot on the maiden flight of the Tu-144, he was one of very few pilots to fly the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner, and was given the honor...
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  • HyperMach SonicStar SAI Quiet Supersonic Transport Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 Tupolev Tu-444 Related lists List of civil aircraft "Spike Aerospace". Spike Aerospace...
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    comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing 2707 Lockheed L-2000 Tupolev Tu-144 Anderson, John D. (2011). Introduction to Flight (PDF). McGraw-Hill...
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    program to have been successful. NASA briefly investigated using a Tupolev Tu-144 which would more closely resemble the high-speed civil transport aircraft...
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    Anglo-French Concorde and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144, the Tupolev first flying in 1968. While both Concorde and the Tu-144 prototype featured an ogival delta...
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    Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing 2707 Concorde Tupolev Tu-144 Related lists List of Lockheed aircraft Boyne, Walter J, Beyond the...
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    reheat) used on supersonic jetliners (SSTs) such as Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144, have been superseded. The 1970s jet airliners introduced wide-body...
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