Tu-144 Archives

27th December 2024

Tupolev Tu-144D / Ту-144Д

25th November 2020 Jacek Domański

Face-to-face with Tupolev Tu-144D / Ту-144Д (CCCP-77115), a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner (SST), exhibited at XIII International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017, July 2017. On 31st December 1968, the first prototype of Tu-144 performed its […]

5 June 1969 – Tupolev Tu-144 went supersonic for the first time

5th June 2020 Jacek Domański

A prototype of Tupolev Tu-144 passenger jet went supersonic for the first time, becoming the first passenger jet to break the sound barrier. Tupolev´s jet did this a four months before its only competitor – […]

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