Thursday, December 26, 2019

Tupolev supersonic aircraft

On December 26, 1975 TU-144, the first commercial supersonic aircraft, went into service, taking off from Moscow, flying mail from the Soviet capital to Alma-Ata. 

It bagan passenger service in November 1977.

A year later it was withdrawn as a passenger aircraft, retired as a commercial enterprise in 1983 and stopped flying in 1999.

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