To many, when they think of supersonic airliners, they instantly think of Concorde. The joint Anglo-French aircraft that served for nearly 30 years, ferrying people across the Atlantic at Mach 2.

In 1973, the Paris Air Show was more than an aviation expo. It was a global stage for a symbolic East versus West confrontation. The Soviets arrived with their pride and joy, the Tu 144, determined to ...

While the French and British were working together to create the Concorde, the Soviets had their own version of the supersonic aircraft, called Tu-144. In total, the Russian made sixteen aircraft, ...

Early in the afternoon of July 25, 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed upon takeoff at the Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris. All 100 passengers and nine crew members on board, as well as four ...

When the first Tupolev Tu-144 thundered its way into aeronautical history 50 years ago, lifting off from Zhukovksy airfield on the last day of 1968, much of the supersonic programme remained cloaked ...

Not to be outdone by their aviation rivals in the west, the Soviet Union built and briefly flew its own supersonic commercial jet, the Tupolev Tu-144. Sixteen were built and a handful remain. Only one ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that a modernization program for the Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic heavy strategic bomber has been finalized, and a passenger version of the plane may be in the ...

The Tupolev Tu-144 Charger supersonic transport aircraft crashed during the Paris Air Show near Le Bourget airport 40 years ago, on June 3, 1973. Watch this archive video showing how the famous air ...

After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...

One of the finest World War II bombers has a very unusual history - it was designed in a Gulag camp. The aircraft’s creator, Andrey Tupolev, and his colleagues were sentenced in 1937 for ...

NASA's experimental supersonic X-plane project has a new name: the X-59 QueSST. So, what's in the name? Well, the "X-59" part is a nod back to American X-plane history, which kicked off with the world ...