![Why You Wouldn't Want to Fly On The Soviet Concorde - The TU-144 Story](https://hight3ch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/why-you-wouldnt-want-to-fly-on-t.jpg)
While the Concorde is hailed as a triumph of modern engineering, the first supersonic transport to ever fly was actually Soviet-built. The Tupolev TU-144 flew even faster than the Concorde and it carried more passengers. What happened to this aircraft and why have so few heard about it?