The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

In 1973, the Paris Air Show was more than an aviation expo. It was a global stage for a symbolic East versus West confrontation. The Soviets arrived with their pride and joy, the Tu 144, determined to ...

But during the approach the Tu-144 crew – perhaps emboldened to end the tame sequence with a flourish, and steal some of Concorde’s spotlight – cleaned the configuration, powered up the Kuznetsov ...

Although spying is a time-honored tradition, the sheer scope of it reached a fever pitch during the Cold War, when everyone was spying on everyone, and conceivably for both sides at the same time. In ...

15:15, Tue, Oct 21, 2025 Updated: 15:31, Tue, Oct 21, 2025 In recent years there’s been a lot of fuss about Boom Supersonic, the American aircraft company currently developing its successor to ...