The Concorde jet was one of the crowning achievements in aviation. It was a supersonic passenger jet, meaning that it broke the speed of sound while flying. Your average Boeing 737-800 flying with ...

The Tupolev Tu-144 became the world’s first supersonic passenger jet to fly, beating the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde into the ...

The Tupolev Tu-144 became the first supersonic passenger jet to fly, beating the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde into the air during the Cold War race for prestige. But behind the achievement were serious ...

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. Only one ...

The Soviet-built Tu-144 actually flew before its supersonic rival Concorde, though it had a number of flaws inherent to the design that severely limited its usefulness. Part of the problem with the Tu ...

A Paris Air Show tragedy 50 years ago marked the beginning of the end for supersonic travel. As aircraft roared overhead during the Paris Air Show on June 3, 1973, 12-year-old Marianne was playing ...

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.

AFTER WEEKS OF rain and fog at Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airfield, site of the Soviet Union’s top flight test center, New Year’s Eve 1968 dawned with more of the same. This was immensely discouraging for ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Tu-144 was impressive, but ended in failure. The Soviet-built Tu-144 actually flew before its supersonic rival Concorde, though it had a number of flaws inherent to ...