The TU 144 was meant to be the Soviet Union’s answer to the Concorde, but the rush to beat the West came at a cost. Engineers ...

It sounds like a description of the Anglo-French Concorde, the plane that will cross the Atlantic in little more than three hours – but it’s not. The spaceship-styled jet sports the hammer and sickle ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The problems Concorde experienced were due to regulations and market forces, rather than shortcomings inherent to the airframe itself. The Soviet-built Tu-144 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The legendary Concorde and the Soviet Tu‑144 were both capable of cruising at roughly twice the speed of sound, making for dramatically fast flight times. Boom’s Overture is designed for a slower ...