After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...

The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

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.

When the first Tupolev Tu-144 thundered its way into aeronautical history 50 years ago, lifting off from Zhukovksy airfield on the last day of 1968, much of the supersonic programme remained cloaked ...

THE Concorde will go down in history for being an icon of supersonic passenger travel – but it was actually beaten to the skies by a lesser-known jet created by the Russians. The USSR’s Tupolev Tu-144 ...

If you boil it down to the basic facts, the era of commercial supersonic flight was a European phenomenon. Concorde, its ...

Everyone knows about the Concorde, which shot across the Atlantic at over twice the speed of sound for decades. But it wasn't the only supersonic airliner. For a little while there was one more, and ...

SITTING in a garden surrounded by rusting bits of metal lies the abandoned remains of Russia’s answer to Concorde. The Tupolev Tu-144 inevitably dubbed ‘Concordski’ was once the pride of its nation ...

THE Concorde will go down in history for being an icon of supersonic passenger travel – but it was actually beaten to the skies by a lesser-known jet created by the Russians. The USSR’s Tupolev Tu-144 ...