Tu-144: The Soviet Supersonic Jet That Beat Concorde — Then Fell From the Sky Over Paris
Published May 23, 2026
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It flew two months before Concorde. Then it fell apart at the Paris Air Show in 1973, live, in front of 350,000 people and every television camera in the Western world. The Soviet Union flew it commercially anyway — 55 flights, seven months — and then withdrew it quietly, leaving the aircraft to slowly sink into a fiel…
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