Mothballed Tu-144D, the first supersonic airliner to fly, outside a hanger at the Zhukovsky airfield near Moscow, Russia

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Mothballed Supersonic Russian airliner, Tu-144D, sits outside a hanger at the Zhukovsky airfield near Moscow. The Tupolev 144 was the first Supersonic passenger aircraft to fly on December 31, 1968, two months before the British / French Concorde. 17 of the 100 passenger Tu-144s were built and used within the Soviet Union from 1977 until 1978. The Tu-144 pictured (tail number 77114) became the Tu-144LL after it was modified by Tupolev, Boeing and The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1998 to be used as a flying laboratory to study development of a second-generation supersonic commercial airliners. Photo by Chuck Nacke

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Size: 5368px × 3730px
Location: Zhukovsky, Air Development Center, Moscow, Russia
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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