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Tu-144 landing video

By Pavel | November 13, 2005 on 8:18 pm | In Aviation Video, Civilians, Tupolev |

Click to download Tu-144 landing video - amazing video. Just look how it jumps on landing!! And keep in mind, this birdy weights about 150 tons!
3,3 Mb, 1:15, 360 x 288, wmv

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Hope that one didn’t wake the baby!
Graet clip, nice vortex from that mighty double delta, the great, groundbreaking TU144, along with concorde the first and the last of something really interesting in civil transport!

Comment by Richard Ryder — July 16, 2006 #
and then it crashed…,

Comment by bf-fly — August 8, 2006 #
bf-fly, this is NOT the video of the crashed 77102, rest in peace all 6 people onboard and 8 on grond.

Comment by FELIPE — September 28, 2006 #
….and so did Concorde…..

Comment by PB — October 1, 2006 #
To be fair, Concorde flew for thirty years without crashing.

Comment by jasmine — December 12, 2006 #
If the French authorities had bothered to follow procedures and check / clean the runway, concorde would not have crashed.

Comment by Greg — December 21, 2006 #
It wasnt the french authorities direct problem. It was the rubbish Mcdonnell Douglas DC10 that took off 15 minutes before, that lost part of its engine coving - due to the age and poor build of the said aircraft.

Before the concorde incident, there had only ever been one oncident involving concorde - on a flight to New Zealand, when part of the verticle tail had sheared. The flight crew didnt even notice, and was only informed by the New Zealand ATC. Damn Americans - and there sub sonic aircraft. They were only jealous because they failed with there Boieng SST.

John from Manchester (UK)

Comment by John Grant — January 9, 2007 #
there have been many concorde incidents mainely just bursted tire the Tu-144 crash beacause as said earlier A slopy DC-10 ended up cuting the Tu-144’s demo time in half so they were russed. that was the problem you see besides putting on an amasing show it approched the wrong runway by accident and then they put full afterburners and pulled up to put on a show but then disaster. you see a french camera plane was following it closely too closely the 144 plunged srait down to avoide a mid-air colision the wing broke up (with the extra load exerced on the wings)and the plane disintagrated.

Comment by arc — February 10, 2007 #
Looks like the pilot messed up the landing a bit. Cool bird though.

Comment by Ian Woollard — February 16, 2007 #
they were under pressure if they were not they would have landed on the good runway and if they were not beying followed by that camera plane they would have landed safly instead of diving and disintagrated.If anything the Tu 144 had less accidents than the concorde in fact this is the olny recorded accident of the Tu-144.

Comment by arc — February 19, 2007 #
Yes, but there is a slight problem with that analysis: Tupolev’s Tu-144 only made just over one hundred flights - of which only 55 where passenger flights (please pardon my questionable grammar - not that anybody asides myself actually care)

Concorde on the other hand made just under 50,000 flights in its entire career, so its safe to say that Concorde was the safer jet: most probably due to the fact that it had more funding - more time for research, more money for testing: you’ll also notice that The Tu-144S didnt have the strengthened wings of its successors.

ALso: I have a query; I am producing as accurate a replica of the Concordski for use in a game that I am writing (I being a sort of “One man free-lance development team” as a pastime) Does anyboy know if the later version of the Tu-144 had a shorter flight-engineer’s compartment? (Picture of internal design on http://cprindustries.googlepages.com/home if required - Ill have screenshots of the plane itself by the end of the week)

Comment by Callum P. Robertson — April 16, 2007 #
I think that the Tu-144 was a great piece of art, but it was put down by the authorities. If the Soviet didn’t heavily modify the plane, mabye it wouldn’t had crashed.

P.S: Does anyone know what the NK engines where rated? Im working on my own SST design and you can see it at dehallivand.googlepages.com/home

The DH 3717 SST

Comment by Komet de Hallivand — September 1, 2007 #
I flew on a tu144 many years ago. The aircraft itself was a relic before it began. Some of the lockers were held together with tape, others didnt work at all. I travelled within Russia on it and never again. Vibration was like that of a hovercraft and the whole machine felt like a lego kit. How it flew, one will never know. Full details of flight with pics available via my website email address.

Comment by nick finan — November 7, 2008 #