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Tupolev Tu-144 (Koncordski)

Location: Tatarstan, Russian Federation
Latitude & Longitude: 55.854427, 49.098537
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bmeyer2 (04/05/2008)

"The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO reporting name: Charger) was the first supersonic transport aircraft (SST), constructed under the direction of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau headed by Alexei Tupolev (1925 ? 2001).

Western observers nicknamed the plane Concordski (sometimes Konkordski), sounding Russian yet still very close to the Concorde, to which the Tu-144 was visually similar. A prototype first flew on 31 December 1968 near Moscow, two months before Concorde. The Tu-144 first broke the sound barrier on 5 June 1969, and on 15 July 1969 it became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2, and the fastest commercial airliner ever."
-Wikipedia
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkordski

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