Vostok Europe TU-144 Series

Vostok Europe TU-144 Series

The Tupolev Tu-144 was the world's first supersonic passenger plane and constructed under the direction of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau headed by Alexei Tupolev. The maiden flight of a prototype Tu-144 was on December 31st, 1968 near Moscow, 2 months before the Anglo British Concorde. The Tu-144 first broke the sound barrier on June 5th 1969 and on July 15th 1969 it became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2 and the fastest commercial airliner ever.