来自MSN7 个月
Tupolev Tu-144: The Story Of The Soviet Supersonic Concorde Competitor
The Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger jet. However, it was louder, more uncomfortable, and unpopular compared to Concorde. A crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973 marred the Tu-144's ...
Hackaday1 年
Cold War Spying And The Questionable Use Of Smuggled Blueprints In Developing Supersonic ...
At the time that the Concorde was being developed, there wasn’t just the competition from the Tu-144 team, but also the Boeing 2702 (pictured) and Lockheed L-2000, with the latter two ultimately ...
来自MSN5 个月
How Much Fuel Did Concorde Consume?
Interestingly, Concorde's afterburner use was very different from the other commercial supersonic aircraft, the Tupolev Tu-144. It used afterburners for much more of the flight. It was far from ...
Hackaday1 年
supersonic flight
This is the topic of a documentary that recently aired on Channel 4 in the UK called Concorde: The Race for Supersonic, yet what is the evidence that the Soviet Tu-144 truly was just a Concorde ...