The Last of TU-144 Planes

[AviationCV]

The Tu-144 is a supersonic Soviet transport aircraft. There were sixteen Tu-144′s built.

Tu-144D USSR-77115 is the last Tu-144 still flying, and right now we have chance to have a close look at it and to even get inside.

Full album is here: http://www.aviationcv.com/pilot-forum/T ... 144-Planes

[YYZ727]

great pics ! Thanks !

[convair]

It was dubbed the "Concordski".

[teddybAIR]

didn't know they actually still flew...I thought it was entirely abandoned after that demo crash

[hvs89]

Same as me teddybAIR, I thought they were definitively withdrawn from service in 1999 after a collaboration with the NASA.

Do you have more info about the last flying Tu-144 AviationCV?

[sn26567]

The programme was put on hold after a fatal crash during a demonstration flight in Le Bourget in 1973 (flying right after the Concorde). Nevertheless it entered into commercial service between 1977 and 1978, when a second accident took place. Afterwards it was used only for freight until 1983. It re-entered into service in cooperation with NASA from 1996 to 1999 when it was definitively retired.