The Tu-144 arrived at the 1973 Paris Air Show as the Soviet Union’s answer to Concorde and a symbol of Cold War prestige.

There is ample evidence of Soviet industrial espionage in the 1960s and 1970s, with the KGB specifically targeting the Anglo-French Concorde program. Networks of informants, typically mid-level ...

AFTER WEEKS OF rain and fog at Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airfield, site of the Soviet Union’s top flight test center, New Year’s Eve 1968 dawned with more of the same. This was immensely discouraging for ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The problems Concorde experienced were due to regulations and market forces, rather than shortcomings inherent to the airframe itself. The Soviet-built Tu-144 ...