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Tupolev Tu-144D

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Nato Codename: Charger Tupolev Tu-144 (Ty-144)

Wikipedia:The Tu-144 was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft with its prototype's maiden flight from Zhukovsky Airport on 31 December 1968, two months before the British-French Concorde.[1]:?76?[3] The Tu-144 was a product of the Tupolev Design Bureau, an OKB headed by aeronautics pioneer Aleksey Tupolev, and 16 aircraft were manufactured by the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association in Voronezh.[1][page needed] The Tu-144 conducted 102 commercial flights, of which only 55 carried passengers, at an average service altitude of 16,000 metres (52,000 ft) and cruised at a speed of around 2,200 kilometres per hour (1,400 mph) (Mach 2).[4][5] The Tu-144 first went supersonic on 5 June 1969, four months before Concorde, and on 26 May 1970 became the world's first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.[5]

Controls:
AG1: nose visor
AG2: snoop droop(VTOL down first same as nose visor)
AG7: parachute

Thanks to this blueprint I used for the aircraft

The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash was the destruction of the second production Tupolev Tu-144 at Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, which killed all six crew members and eight people on the ground. The crash, at the Paris Air Show on Sunday, 3 June 1973,damaged the development program of the Tupolev Tu-144.

????-77102, the Tu-144S involved in the accident, seen at the 1973 Paris Air Show, the day before the accident

Fun fact#1 tu-144 made it's first flight earlier than the concorde 3 months before concorde took it's first flight

Fun fact #2 CCCP-68001 was the first Tupolev Tu-144 to be ever made

Funfact#3 The Tupolev Ty-144 Is the current world's Fastest Civilian Airliner ever

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 56.8ft (17.3m)
  • Length 134.5ft (41.0m)
  • Height 27.7ft (8.4m)
  • Empty Weight 18,558lbs (8,418kg)
  • Loaded Weight 163,001lbs (73,936kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 3.033
  • Wing Loading 74.6lbs/ft2 (364.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 2,184.7ft2 (203.0m2)
  • Drag Points 21296

Parts

  • Number of Parts 313
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 1,775