Soviet Supersonic: A Tu-one-forty-four Gets a Second Life at Zhukovsky
Russian volunteers are actively restoring a Tu-144D supersonic jet at Zhukovsky airport near Moscow, ahead of an anticipated return of the MAKS airshow.
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Valery Chkalov and the ANT-25, the transpolar flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington that began June eighteenth, nineteen thirty-seven
How Valery Chkalov and the ANT-25 flew nonstop over the North Pole from Moscow to Washington State in June 1937.
TaildraggerThe Tupolev Tu one forty-four and the Soviet supersonic transport that hit Mach two on May twenty-sixth, nineteen seventy
On May 26, 1970, the Tupolev Tu-144 became the first commercial transport aircraft to reach Mach 2, a milestone in the Cold War supersonic race.
TaildraggerThe Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik pulled from a Russian lake and the quest to fly the most-produced warplane in history
The story of how the most-produced military aircraft in history was pulled from a Russian lake and restored to flight.
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