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Airframe heating and the high temperature properties of the primary structural materials, which were aluminum alloys, set the maximum speed at Mach 2.2.A project study, assigned the number Tu-144DA, increased the wing area and the take-off weight, and replaced the engines with the Early configurations of the Tu-144 were based on the unbuilt Over the course of the Tu-144 project, the Tupolev bureau created designs of a number of military versions of Tu-144 but none were ever built.
The aircraft was put into commercial service on the Moscow–Alma Ata route, flying mail (1975) and then passengers (1978), but the planes were pulled from service following another crash in 1978. After takeoff, failures continued to multiply. During 102 flights and 181 hours of freight and passenger flight time, the Tu-144S suffered more than 226 failures, 80 of them in flight. In June 1969 the Tu-144 became the first passenger jet to fly faster than the speed of sound. Concorde used an electronic engine control package from The Tu-144 prototype was a full-scale demonstrator aircraft with the very different production aircraft being developed in parallel.
According to News in Flight, the first stage of restoration of Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport aircraft (SST) has recently been completed.
/Subtype /XML Another proposed navy version was to have a strike capability (two Kh-45 air-to-surface cruise missiles), along with a reconnaissance function.The military was unreceptive to Tupolev's approaches. 3 0 obj Much later than in the West, but since the late 1970s, commercial efficiency was starting to become a factor in aviation development decision-making even in the USSR.In the late 1970s, Soviet insiders were intensely hopeful in conversations with Western counterparts of reintroducing Tu-144 passenger service for the The decision to cease Tu-144D production was issued on 7 January 1982, followed by a USSR government decree dated 1 July 1983 to cease the whole Tu-144 programme and to use produced Tu-144 aircraft as flying laboratories.In retrospect, it is apparent that the Tu-144 suffered from a rush in the design process to the detriment of thoroughness and quality, and this rush to get airborne exacted a heavy penalty later.The introduction of the Tu-144 into passenger service was timed to the 60th anniversary of the Fridlyander points out that in addition to the Tu-144, Tupolev's bureau had to work on other projects, including the The rushed introduction to service of poorly tested aircraft happened previously with another Tupolev project that had high political visibility and prestige: the This politically motivated rush, along with the fact that the project was essentially ideologically motivated rather than driven by intrinsic needs of the Soviet society, and with general technological insufficiencies of Soviet industrial base, contributed to the final undoing of the Tu-144 project. Foto und Copyright: US Air ForceAntonow An-124 von Volga-Dnepr.
%���� Tupolev Tu-144, world’s first supersonic transport aircraft, designed by the veteran Soviet aircraft designer Andrey N. Tupolev and his son Alexey.It was test-flown in December 1968, exceeded the speed of sound in June 1969, and was first publicly shown in Moscow in May 1970. Foto und Copyright: NASADie Antonow 225 kann mit 250 Tonnen mit Abstand die meiste Nutzlast stemmen.
