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title: Why You Wouldn&#8217;t Want to Fly On The Soviet Concorde &#8211; The TU-144 Story — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/why-you-wouldnt-want-to-fly-on-the-soviet-concorde-the-tu-144-story/
date: 2017-09-17
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# Why You Wouldn&#8217;t Want to Fly On The Soviet Concorde &#8211; The TU-144 Story

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?