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.

When the first Tupolev Tu-144 thundered its way into aeronautical history 50 years ago, lifting off from Zhukovksy airfield on the last day of 1968, much of the supersonic programme remained cloaked ...

The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

Everyone knows about the Concorde, which shot across the Atlantic at over twice the speed of sound for decades. But it wasn't the only supersonic airliner. For a little while there was one more, and ...

Developed in the 1960s/1970s, the Tu-144 was the Soviet Union's only practical venture into supersonic commercial aviation. Though its career was all too brief, it was a major technological ...

SITTING in a garden surrounded by rusting bits of metal lies the abandoned remains of Russia’s answer to Concorde. The Tupolev Tu-144 inevitably dubbed ‘Concordski’ was once the pride of its nation ...

When you think of super sonic flight, you probably first think of the Concorde. But that wasn’t the first super sonic transporter and it certainly wasn’t the first commercial plane break the sound ...