Tu-144 Projects

[hesham]

From Aviation magazine 1968.

 

[nuuumannn]

A large scale model of the Tu-144 at the entrance to the hangar at Monino and the real thing outside, looking rather sad on this rainy, bleak day in Moscow many years ago in the age of crappy 35mm film cameras.

 

[sgeorges4]

any drawing related to the tupolev Tu 144DA variant with inresed range? any difference from the standard D externally?

 

[hesham]

From American Aviation 1965/66.

 

[Deino]

Probably doesn't quite fit here, but I didn't want to start a new topic!

At first glance, it seems like a bad joke, but the site is official after all: So, does anyone know what's behind it?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1731976317116068336

View: https://twitter.com/EmbassyofRussia/status/1731976317116068336

 

[flateric]

Russian embassy in South Africa SMM management is well known for brilliant soft power efforts.
This is boxart for 1/144 kit made by Ukrainian ICM.

 

[flateric]

What did they want to show in fact?
This https://t.me/rian_ru/223650

 

[blackkite]

Hi!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP24seK4ROw

 

[yahya]

1972. The first series Ty-144 unveiled, yet without mods.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://collectionerus.ru/collections/nabory-otkrytok-transport/226/

 

[Springtime]

Was there any effort to actually keep the Tu-144 in limited service VIP's ? after the crash as from Yefin Gordon's book about the Tu-144 is was shown being at least used to show the capability of soviet civil aviation to western VIP's including Neill Armstrong who may have gotten a Tu-144 model

 

[hesham]

From this book, Советская авиационная техника

 

[Cjc]

Would there have been any visual difference between the regular tu-144 and the ecm tu-144?

 

[flateric]

144PP would have bulky long antenna fairings below outer engine nacelles and another antenna fairing rear protruding bulge over rudder. Plus missile pylons for pair of tandem placed AAMs in the middle of each wing.

 

[Cjc]

144PP would have bulky long antenna fairings below outer engine nacelles and another antenna fairimg bulge over rudder. Plus missile pylons for pair of tandem placed AAMs in the middle of each wing.

Thank you, shame there doesn't appear to be any art on it.

 

[flateric]

Model photo should be in Gordon's last Tu-144 book.

 

[Antonio]

Model photo should be in Gordon's last Tu-144 book.

That one?

 

[flateric]

Yes. I don't have it but something says me it's just an English version of Russian Rigmant/Zatuchny/Sineokiy Poligon Press Tu-144 book. Last one has 144PP (EW/interceptor) model image

 

[Antonio]

I found the same image on previous Red Star Volume 24 pg 108. Published 2005 by Midland
The latest volume is a luxury expanded version of that soft cover Red Star series

 

[doggedman]

Given the interest I got (number of likes) the last time I posted one of these illustrations, I'll post this one. If the community continues to like them, I will be happy to post more. You have to love this Communist era advertising; "Speed and Comfort". It should have read; "Consider yourself lucky if you get there". This is from one of my Tu-144 brochures.

 

[Adler]

Did not think we had a Tu 144 thread on here. Found these photographs of Tu 144 mockups being tested in wind tunnels (I think the T-101 but can be wrong) at the TsAGI institute.



Wasn't quite the success the communists claim it was, flew passenger routes for only a year, and even then, with a minimal number of flights. Tickets were 80 rubles, while a ticket on a conventional aircraft was around 60. Not such a stark ticket price difference as between the Concorde and regular airliners in the west, but the "Concordski" did have 90-95 decibels of noise in the cabin during flight. Also one of these landed in a field in 1978, even the Concorde can't compare.

 

[blackkite]

Hi!
https://www.airteamimages.com/tupolev-tu-144_cccp-77106_aeroflot-russian-airlines_352560

 

[Adler]

Reconstruction of the Tupolev Tu 144 CCCP-77102 after its crash at the Paris Airshow. Photograph taken in Moscow, date and location unknown. We can speculate this was in Zhukovskiy/Ramenskoe at the TsAGI institute.

 

[Adler]

Additionally, here are some photographs of the Tu 144 Yegorevsk crash in 1978. The event is overshadowed by the Paris Airshow crash from half a decade prior, but it stands to date as the only successful crash landing of a supersonic airliner and the only crash involving a supersonic airliner with survivors.

 

[voodoo1]

I have 2 solid aluminum TU-144s.......here they are, both 17" long.