The Tu-144 is bigger and faster than the Concorde (M2.15 vs. M2.04). 26 0 R 27 0 R 28 0 R 29 0 R 30 0 R 31 0 R 32 0 R 33 0 R 34 0 R 35 0 R The last production aircraft, Tu-144D number 77116, was not completed and was left derelict for many years on The Tu-144S went into service on 26 December 1975, flying mail and freight between Moscow and The passenger service ran a semi-scheduled service until the first Tu-144D experienced an in-flight failure during a pre-delivery test flight, crash-landing on 23 May 1978 with two crew fatalities.There were only 103 scheduled flights before the Tu-144 was removed from commercial service. The Tu-144 programme was cancelled by a Soviet government decree on 1 July 1983 that also provided for future use of the remaining Tu-144 aircraft as airborne laboratories. Tupolev assigned his son, Aleksey, as chief designer for the project. The work started in 1921. Foto: FR-DokumentationLockheed C-5A Galaxy der US Air Force. Was das Volumen ihres Laderaums angeht, schafft sie es allerdings nicht unter die Top 3.Airbus A300-600ST Beluga im Flug.

By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Airframe heating and the high temperature properties of the primary structural materials, which were aluminum alloys, set the maximum speed at Mach 2.2.A project study, assigned the number Tu-144DA, increased the wing area and the take-off weight, and replaced the engines with the Early configurations of the Tu-144 were based on the unbuilt Over the course of the Tu-144 project, the Tupolev bureau created designs of a number of military versions of Tu-144 but none were ever built. 77114 (aircraft 101 or 08-2) carried out test flights between the 13–20 July 1983 to establish 13 world records registered with the To put the numbers in perspective, Concorde's service ceiling under a typical Concorde was originally designed for cruising speeds up to Mach 2.2, but its regular service speed was limited to Mach 2.02 to reduce fuel consumption, extend airframe life and provide a higher safety margin. The main point of this theory being the Anglo-French team knew the Soviet team was planning to steal the design plans of Concorde, and the Soviets were allegedly passed ersatz (substituted) blueprints with a flawed design. Nineteen flights of the modified aircraft (Tu-144LL) were flown by Tupolev research pilots in 1996-1997 and data for six flight experiments were ac-quired. Due to expected political fallout, With the accumulated failures, an alarm siren went off immediately after takeoff, with sound and volume similar to that of a civil defence warning. endobj

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It was not placed into production because the VVS decided it would be cheaper to modify its existing Tu … The Tupolev Tu-144 (Russian: Tyполев Ту-144; NATO reporting name: Charger) is a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner designed by Tupolev in operation from 1968 to 1999. …first supersonic passenger airliner, the Tu-144. After takeoff, failures continued to multiply. Assembly began in 1922. While the aircraft was supersonic en route to the destination airport, Tupolev bureau's crisis centre predicted that the front and left landing gear would not extend and that the aircraft would have to land on the right gear alone, at a landing speed of over 300 km/h (190 mph; 160 kn). /Producer (Pdf.Capture version 5.2) Once a crack started to develop, it spread quickly for many metres, with no crack-arresting design feature to stop it.Later the same year, a test airframe was subjected to a test simulating the temperatures and pressures during a flight. /HideMenubar false The crew could not figure a way to switch it off so the siren stayed on throughout the remaining 75 minutes of the flight. and the first Soviet-built aircraft.

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The Tu-144 was placed in a The Soviet leadership made a political decision to enter the Tu-144 into passenger service in November 1977 despite receiving testing reports indicating that the Tu-144 airframe was unsafe and not airworthy for regular service. Oktober 1922 richtete er sein eigenes Konstruktionsbüro ein, das OKB Tupolew.

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>> Another proposed navy version was to have a strike capability (two Kh-45 air-to-surface cruise missiles), along with a reconnaissance function.The military was unreceptive to Tupolev's approaches.

Insgesamt entstanden bisher über 300 Flugzeugprojekte, … >> On June 5, 1969, a Tu-144 became the first passenger aircraft to break the sound barrier.This article was most recently revised and updated by

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endobj Though the decision to cancel the Tu-144S passenger service came a few days after the Tu-144D crashed during the test flight on 23 May 1978, this crash was regarded as the last straw over mounting concerns about the reliability of the Tu-144. In June 1969 the Tu-144 became the first passenger jet to fly faster than the speed of sound.