The TU-144, often called the "Communist Concorde," was less about passenger travel and more about political bragging rights. Unlike Concorde, the TU-144 was never intended to operate as a commercial ...

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 ...

Developed in the 1960s/1970s, the Tu-144 was the Soviet Union's only practical venture into supersonic commercial aviation. Though its career was all too brief, it was a major technological ...