This Plane Beat the Concorde - Tupolev TU-144

The Tupolev TU-144 was the Soviet Union’s wild attempt to beat Concorde to the skies, and it actually did. The first passenger jet to fly faster than Mach 2, the TU-144 looked like the future. But behind the polished titanium and propaganda, it was a nightmare to fly, loud, unstable, and rushed into service by politics, not physics. It crashed in front of the world, burned millions of rubles, and vanished just as fast as it came. This is the story of the plane that tried to outrun the West, and destroyed itself trying.

From Cold War espionage to catastrophic design flaws, from Soviet secrecy to desperate showmanship, the TU-144 wasn’t just a failure, it was a symbol of a superpower’s obsession with prestige over practicality.

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