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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Tupolev aircraft, Tupolev Tu-144, Andrei Tupolev, Tupolev Tu-154, Tupolev SB, Tupolev Tu-204, Tupolev Tu-160, Tupolev Tu-22, Tupolev Tu-95, Tupolev Tu-134, Tupolev TB-3, Tupolev Tu-114, Tupolev Tu-4, Tupolev Tu-22M, Tupolev ANT-25, Tupolev Tu-28, Tupolev ANT-3, Tupolev Tu-104, Tupolev Tu-124, Tupolev ANT-20, Tupolev I-14, Tupolev Tu-142, Tupolev Tu-334, Tupolev ANT-21, Tupolev TB-1, Tupolev Tu-110, Tupolev Tu-70, Tupolev Tu-85, Tupolev ANT-10, Tupolev ANT-7, Tupolev Tu-126, Tupolev DB-1, Tupolev Tu-80, Tupolev Tu-75, Tupolev ANT-14, Tupolev MTB-2, Tupolev ANT-9, Tupolev ANT-22, Tupolev Tu-91, Tupolev ANT-37, Tupolev ANT-8, Tupolev Tu-119, Tupolev Tu-123, Tupolev ANT-35, Tupolev Tu-244, Tupolev Tu-141, Tupolev Tu-82, Tupolev ANT-16, Tupolev Tu-324, Tupolev Tu-444, Tupolev I-8, Tupolev TB-6, Tupolev Tu-330, Tupolev I-4, Tupolev Tu-143, Tupolev Tu-98, Tupolev I-12, Tupolev Tu-2000, Tupolev Tu-125, Tupolev Tu-155, Tupolev Tu-107, Alexei Tupolev. Excerpt: The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO name: "Charger'") was a Soviet supersonic transport aircraft (SST) and remains one of only two SSTs to enter commercial service, the other being the Anglo-French Concorde. The design, publicly unveiled in January 1962, was constructed under the direction of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau, headed by Alexei Tupolev. and was Tupolev's only supersonic commercial airliner, as the company's other supersonic aircraft, were designed and built to military specifications. The prototype first flew on 31 December 1968 near Moscow, two months before the first flight of the Concorde. The Tu-144 first broke the sound barrier on 5 June 1969, and on 15 July 1969 and became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. The Tu-144 was outwardly similar to the Concorde, under development at the same time by Aerospatiale/British Aircraft Corporation, and...
