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  • hay un viejo dicho que dice , en final ala con pata mata,

  • the b-52 in guam was the same accident type?

  • Terrible tragedy. But TU-144 THE FIRST.

  • Way to go KGB! You stole incorrect (deliberately so) design plans.

  • @Moosiepoohkitty1 the tu-144 came before the concord...

  • Concorde закончил так же только жизней больше унес, гордится нечем

  • @kurlykinaak Bullshit

  • in soviet russia sound barrier brakes plane

  • @Luchingador Well, B-52 broke too sound barrier:)

  • concorde wannabe

  • in soviet russia, you dont fly planes, planes fly you

  • soviet=crash

  • From what I've read there was alot of CIA operatives present at that airshow. I think its within the realm of possibility that they sabotaged the plane. Remember the cold war was at its height during that era.

  • To all the fellow trolls and mindless ignorant people out there.

    A french mirage came over tu-144 and the pilots maneuvered to avoid a collision, which caused the plane to pitch sharply down, because the plane went 90 degrees down it couldnt take the stress and it's air frame failed

    That is why the crash happened

    the concorde would of ended up in the same state.

  • @RainfulPhenix That's only one of several theories regarding the crash.  You are piling unproven assertions on top of assumptions with your statement.

  • @shinmawa

    Hah. It is not a theory. This has most likely happened and it is claimed to be proven by some sources of information. The Tu-144 wont have simply dived for no reason at such a steep angle to break itself apart. Another explanation would be engine stall. Those are two most promising explanations suggested by many people and websites and there are valid explanations too.

  • @RainfulPhenix some websites said that the soviet designers actually stole the concorde blueprints but the french or the british designers modified the blueprints to make the soviets believe that the concorde/TU-144 could do stuff that wasnt actually designed to do and that made the pilot believe that the TU could make the stunt that finally cause them to break apart and crash

  • @SouthProWrestling

    They are websites. They are not nescessarily proven to be reliable, especialy websites.

    Eye witnesses claim it was a near collision, and the plane dived. Concorde would of suffered in the same way because of the laws of aerodynamics.

    Blueprints are extremely hard to get. I doubt Russians copied the concordes "fake" blueprints. The two planes have different. Have different flight dynamics, dimensions, engine pacement and cockpit.

  • @SouthProWrestling i think it's a lie. In USSR were the best scientists and constructors

  • Epic Fail

  • Looks like the jet blew up or broke apart before falling to earth.

  • Look, I can add "ski" onto a name and think I look clever!

    One Russian reactor suffered a melt down. Last I heard, the Japanese have the same track record, and the United States almost joined the meltdown club with Three Mile Island. The worst thing the Russians had going for them was their economy and the corruption at the top levels of government. These days, we see the same level of corruption in Congress. Republicans crap on our country, and the Democrats don't clean it up.

  • @divideoverflow2k

    Corruption is everywhere. It is just covered up better in some countries than others.

  • @divideoverflow2k The Americans where the first to have a meltdown they just covered it up to well

  • @PierreCle Yes! You're right! That means that I would prefer to have the average russian citizen standard of living than to have the average american citizen standard of living.

  • To all who say that TU-144 is Concorde replica. If You look up commerial supersonic planes on the web You will find more than 6 projects (besides TU-144 and Concorde) which were ment to fly supersonic. THE CONCPETS ALL LOOK THE SAME (more or less). But only Tupolev and Concorde were airborn... This is why they look so similar.

  • the tu-144 is different than a concorde because it used a different technic then the concorde and it used a different kind of engine

  • nononnononno the reason why it crashed because the spy forgot to copy one page of the documents

  • @Etherreal1967 it was only one Concorde that crashed not 2

  • 2things the Russians failed at, making reactors which pretty mich did nothing but blow up and made the concordski which never made safe air travel

  • Fuck...

  • "t is well-documented Tupolev had to approve each passenger flight personally."

    You lie. Up to the second crash of Tu-144 (23-th may 1978) passenger fights were rutine.

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  • TU-144 was departured from commercial service because it was uprofitable on inner airlines. 68 rubles Moscow-Alma-ata ticket vs 48 rubles ticket for subsonic airplane. TU-144 was created for international airlines.

    2 TU-144 was crashed from 16 built.

    2 Concords was crashed from 20 built.

  • @Ethereal1967 Love your math. :D why don't you tell the flying hours of both planes? Let's then talk again.

  • TU-144's first flght - 31 december 1968.

    Concord's first flight - 2 march 1969

  • @Ethereal1967 Yeah I guess industrial espionage does speed up the process a bit

  • @akaAlexthekid

    But you can't steal a thing which in not yet exists.

  • @Ethereal1967 Hmmm

    The concords plans were started in November 62, the TU-144 was started in 63

  • @akaAlexthekid Just shows how the Russians cut corners too to get theirs in the air first. The Concorde prototype had 5000 flying hours before it was cleared for service whereas the Tu-144 had less than 800. Safety was clearly an after thought with them

  • I was there and it was strange it happened in slo mo I saw the front aerofoil break off and enter the engine. I was flying home that night, the aircraft went unserviceable and instead of a B727 we came home in a caravelle.

  • Yeah, it was the Mirage pilot's fault. The tu 144's were awesome planes. Faster than the Concorde, and don't they still fly them some times in science projects or something?:)

  • @1980kadett Faster and better? erm sorry i think the word you are looking for is rushed ,killed and failed :D

  • Tu-144 fly first

  • Concorde ia the copy of Tu-144

  • @ReDDDgoll piss off

  • @FIATF130DT

    suck

  • And that's what you get for stealing our stuff, commies.

  • @richardmaudsley77 What an irreverent tosser you are

  • @KoshmarUK Go on then, give us a hug.

  • This is when they usually say:

    Back to the drawing board!

    Jman

  • The Concorde got jealous...

  • The KGB stole many Concorde blueprints. Soon, BAC became aware of this, so began to incorporate errors and faults in the blueprints to confuse the Soviets. However, many of these mistakes were incorporated into the Tu-144 without the Soviets being aware.

  • @PatchworkFlag Engineers did the same thing here in Toulouse, so faulty blueprints were also stolen.

  • In soviet russia plane crash YOU!

  • @kilmon3 So does your vodka !

  • @trzcinarowice OF Course!

  • Ahhhh, Konkordski no workski...

  • My father was working onthe Concord when the Russians sent spies in to steal certain specifications. The MOD left corrupted plans for the Rusians to photograph.

  • @malamute3

    Also good spies was in KGB ! They had TimeMashine - Tu-144 flew for 1 year before concorde

  • @1966brick

    So how long do you think it takes to plan a plane like this?

  • @1966brick Too early. See the result ?

  • @1966brick Maybe it flew earlier but its career ended earlier too! It was so unsafe, noisy and the plane vibrated so much passengers thought it would fall apart. That's why it was soon after its launch used as a cargo plane.

  • Слушайте сюда америкосы!!! Ту 144 не является копией Конкорда, хотябы по той причине что он поднялся в воздух раньше него. Это совсем разные самолеты, внешне они похожи, так как оба являются сверхзвуковыми. А Ту быстрее вашего Конкорда и грузоподьемнее.

  • Gratziani2002 You talking bull shit. You are illiterate guy who hates the most smart nation on earth - the Russians. ( Im not an Russian) I thing you a very young man, and know nothing yet.

  • @doberman921 The other nations a less smart ?

  • Guys, why the arguments about the US or Russia having the better planes? Both have pros and cons. Logistically the US does have the superior fire power and sophisticated technology. Russian migs can withstand crash landings better than US fighters. However, all that's moot as the US has the majority of the worlds nukes.

  • Could you imagine flying on a Russian made airplane? You couldn't pay me enough money to fly in these pieces of shit.

  • @miamad that what you calkling "peace of shit" were flying long before your own planes got airborne. Learn history, moron.

  • They fucking russians just copy everything! The concorde and Airbuses! They are as bad as the Chinese!

  • @Flyglobespan93

    If you dont know the history then shut up! This is the Russians design The Concorde copyed Russian just made it later.

  • @Semgez Dont talk shit! U know shit all! FAGGOT!

  • @Flyglobespan93

    Try to proof that the concord made all the

    work, you wont because Russian's made it

  • whatever. the u.s. has superior tech than russia anyways.

    The u.s. would CRUSH russia in the air, sea, and on land. we have 10x more money, 2x more soldiers, and we have more allies.

    russia wouldn't stand a chance.

  • @andrewm153351

    In the air America is useless, Try to compare what would do one Tu-160 bomber and Mig jet fighters the largest fighters in the world. On land America will loose too, Russia is bigger and more soldiers so no 2x more soldiers maybe 2x times less soldiers. And those allies would do anything to help America. So Russia wins.

  • haha you fail bigtime. In the event that a war would happen we would issue a draft. This is where we would have 2x more soldiers than russia.

    Russian population-141,927,297

    U.S. population-308,944,000

    Thats OVER 2x more.

    And are you honestly trying to compare the tu-160 to the B2 BOMBER???

    hahaha what a joke.

    MIGS???? HAHAHAHA

    what about our f-22, and f15(which has the highest kill record out of any fighter jet in the world)???

    What is good about having a LARGE fighter jet???

  • @andrewm153351 i am sorry, but you do realize that Russia's military is undergoing heavy modernization?

  • @Cidilon

    ??? russia could try to modernize all they want, they would never catch up to the technological prowess of the u.s.

    And by the way, russia has actually been DECREASING its military advances because of its shitty economy.

    Russia's economy grew by -3.2% last year, while ours grew by +5.6%

  • @andrewm153351

    KKKRRRUUUUHHHHHaaaHHHAAAAAAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA !

    ROFL !!!

  • @DiscoverRussia

    ???

    Whats so funny???

    can you specify???

  • our b2 bomber is WAAAY better than the tu160. The b2 bomber IS COMPLETELY INVISIBLE.

    The tu160 ISN'T invisible at all. It would be intercepted thousands of miles before it reaches the u.s.

    # of russian aircraft carriers-1

    # of U.S. aircraft carriers(that are 2x bigger)-12

    YOU LOSE

  • I hope you're trying to say it this way.

    The French designed the Concorde. then Russians then stole the Blueprints, which still had some technical difficulties, and then made a replica. Called the Concordski.

  • russians didn't copy concorde so shut the fuck up kid

  • There is still a TU-144 in operation between a couple of research groups.

  • Did the T- 4 become the "BEAR" or was that something else?

  • The Russians have designed some fantastic aircraft in their own right,but they are also most excellent at copies .For example the U.S. B-29,the space shuttle and the Concorde.

  • the aircraft made from those aircraft are b-29 into T-4, space shuttle into orion class orbitors, and concorde into tu-144

  • Thanks, but only the bomber was a copy (Tu-4 = B-29). The Russian space shuttle program only had a similar looking orbiter, and Tu-144, though it had many common traits with the Concorde, cruised on afterburners (which was a bad idea from the point of fuel economy: 68 rubles for Moscow - Alma-Ata ticket compared to usual 48 rubles limited the plane's popularity) and had canards (which made it safer during landings)

  • The manvouvers they attempted were not approved or ever done before. This was following Concordes fantastic display previously. The russians built this with large metal plates rahter than the conventional small ones. With nowhere to stop, fatigue caused massive cracsk which would bring the bird down. Beautiful looking aircraft but rushed into production.

  • Russians stole blueprints of the Concorde, and then rushed to get their half-assed "Concordski" in the air before the British and French could get their legitimate program going....aaaaaaand that's why this crash happened, because the Tu-144 was a piece of junk. The end.

  • Tu-144 is not the exact replica ofConcorde,as they differ inlenght, wing-silhouette, weight,and manufacturing. But there are solid prooves that Soviet-spies stole some Concorde-designs. In order to achhieve long-time-resistence Concorde was built using the edge-of-the-art manufacture-methods (duralumin,electron-beam, numeric-controlled-machines),w­hich there weren't inUSSR that time

  • @anisocoro THE FUCKING RUSSIANS ARE IN CHARGE WITH THIS SORT OF ACTIVITIES, remember the TU 4 (B-29) , Soyuz engines (V-2) and so on...this mother fuckers are stilling from everywhere and they consider is regular!...same Japanese did in first half 20 th century with ships , till some smart designers made a "small" mistake and the ship they build capsize .....lol..maybe it was the same with this shit 144...

  • @GRATZIANI2002

    My dear clown Ronald Mcdonnald !

    TU-144 lift from the ground 2 years before Frecnh Concord !

    Do research !

  • @DiscoverRussia Clown is your putin and his friends!..is u want toi check someting , check what's happened with factory Karl Zeiss Jena after WW2...you'll be surprised on haw smart is Bolshevik people...but sure he has something : a huge mouth!.. and a full of shit place for brain...

  • @GRATZIANI2002

    Soyuz has V-2 engines ? Never heard of it, becouse Soyuz has enigines developed by russian space company in 60`s, when V-2 rocket engines were allready at that time dinosaurs and fosils for museum !

    Have you ever heard of Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ? He was the one, who first write plans and technology for rocket engines in Russia in time of Imperial Russia.

    i know that entire US space program and NASA is based on Nazi gestapo guy Werner Von Braun.

  • @DiscoverRussia did u ever hear about "inverse engineering"...if not check your entire engineering history...

  • @GRATZIANI2002

    watch?v=XFSI5T62sXc

  • @anisocoro Nice away giving the British's secret.

  • @anisocoro How do you know that it wasn't the British and French that stole the Russian research? After all, Russians are smarter in many respects, and have more well built machines and technology!!!!

  • @IronManu77 lol you wish

  • @IronManu77

    "Russians are smarter"

    Then how come the British-French Concorde went into a better service than the Soviet TU-144... If the Russains are smarter, how come Concorde was a better success compared to the TU-144 in other words.

    "How do you know that it wasn't the British and French that stole the Russian research?"

    lol you wish... Dude if they stole it, how could the TU-144 been a complete failure to the Concorde then?

  • @IronManu77 Soviet Inteligence stole the plans to the Concorde and gave them to Tupolev. However, they were false plans that had the profile of the wing all wrong, making slow speed stability impossible. Tupolev tried to fix this issue with the Canards. Didnt work.

    Dont get me wrong, Soviet/Russian/Ukranian aircraft producers (Suhkoi, MiG, Tupolev, Antonov) have built many excellent planes . The Tu-144 was not one of them.

  • @IronManu77

    Hell yeah,the Vaz Zhiguli,the Moskvich and the RAF were indeed very well built machines!

  • @anisocoro Some of the designs? Like the whole blueprints and rushed it to the world.

  • @anisocoro Yes, the Soviets also stole the Sputnik design from NASA

  • @anisocoro Yeah, you're right. It wasn't a replica, ours was perfect to the last detail. The Paris Crash was due to a strip of metal that came off of a Continental Airlines DC-10. That's what I find with British aircraft, they're rare but also brilliant. Need I say more than Concorde, Spitfire or Harrier?

  • they couldn't have copied it because the tu-144 came out one year bfore the concorde...

  • Apparently a soviet spy named Sergei Fabiew supplied the Soviet Union with a complete set of the Concorde blueprints. Maybe the Soviets were fast workers!

  • true, but it flew too early due to the competition between the Soviet and the west.. The 144 appeared at air shows even before it had seen proper testing.. Pilots have described in detail how dangerous these flight were and during some flights up to 70% of all the vital systems in the airplane broke down (in the air!!!).. I'm glad the cold war is over..

  • 2 months before, acctually

  • @T14BR true, but that only proves it was rushed, which led to unnecessary faults with the aircraft

  • The Soviet Union didn't have the technology necessary to make an exact copy.

  • Form follows function. Look at XB-70, it's the same shape etc. Look at the Whitcomb's area rule you fool.

  • The cause of the accident started with a negative punt. The pilot saw the mirage and levelled the plane to quickly from the steep accent he was in as a result the engines stalled and he nosed the plane down to restart. they got power back but it was not enough and pulled up to hard, the force over streached the airframe and it failed. This was attested to by a concorde pilot at the airshow and he heard the engines die as he levelled the 144. The french admitted to the miragecovertly taking pics

  • @quattro610 As a matter of fact TU144 was crased to the ground on purpose of the west. The human mankind will have on plane faster than TU144. As a matter of fact the destruction of the TU144 fleet was THE FIRST condition imposed by the Bush senior satanic-himself to Misha Gorby.

  • @quattro610 Who fucking cares? The -144 was a hastily assembled piece of junk bound for failure. The fault was that of the pilot in command. "Oooooo...they're taking a picture of me! Now what was I supposed to be doing? Oh yes, flying the plane..." Russians have a habit of dying when showing off their planes. And Tupolev was a puppet. Christ, he had to personally approve each commercial -144 flight at the airport before it took off!

  • you are idiot...

  • @beeroosterm

    I see your brain has been saturated by the "Russia is bad" immense propaganda.You have no evidence to support your argument.You just spill out your words because you want to convince yourself concorde was better even if you dont know half of the info you need in order to make an argument for and against.You are biased.This was crash partly caused by near collision with a fighter taking pictures.Stop stereo typing that russians are suicidal and get a grip of reality boy.

  • @Lvieru96 Which of my claims do you refute? That the -144 was a piece of crap is well documented by its many failures and quick departure from the skies after a very brief period (55 flights) of commercial passenger service. It is well-documented Tupolev had to approve each passenger flight personally. And the official crash report on the Paris Air Show incident reveals the pilot overstressed the plane; your conspiracy theories hold no water. The facts speak for themselves...

  • @beeroosterm

    Overstressed because of near collision,causing the plane going down.The fighter jet is visible in the full video of the crash.For pete's sake have some common sense.I dont see how it was a failure.It was faster and longer than the concorde,and it did NOT copy the concorde.

    I presume you got your facts off western internet sites,written by people just like you.

    The crash cost money,and the economy was getting worse.Concorde was supported by 2 countrues.Once france gave up,it died.

  • @Lvieru96 Facts are facts; their origins matter not. And it appears you need to hear them - as it appears you do not know or accept them. What you are voicing is a popular opinion (popular apparently amongst Russians and anti-Westerners, malcontents, etc.) "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

  • you're all wrong.......the truth is that plane was shot-down by a UFO

  • I was there and the mirage was nowhere near, the port canard broke off in a tight turn and he nosedived, stress broke the fuselage, I watched it all through my binoculars 2 or 3 km from goussinville at the end of the runway at le bourget, no mirage was near

  • Schicken Sie mir eine private Nachricht und krank fickt Sie auf den Arsch damit harter kranker Riss Sie in zwei

  • obviously a major design flaw

  • no he had to manouver for an incoming mirage fighter

  • the real cause is the mirage III that we can see near the tupolev in 0:19

  • When the TU-144 exploded what happened to the body of the plane?

  • everybody in the crew died (6) and 8 of persons in the ground

  • Yes but did the wing come off and ripe the fuel tank?

  • the canards broke

  • Ich diene dem Mutterland als der Botschafter zur Welt in der Kapazität von ‚fachmännischem Analverkehrmeister.

  • either you are stupid or don't know how gay you are

  • The plane used by NASA with BOEING is called Tu-144LL and it has been used in program SST in 1995.....

  • no ones gonna get on that piece of shit i tell u that

  • Of course not.... its long out of service.. idiot.

  • Dgl44... so NASA didnt have anything to do with this plane then? Search for NASA Tu144... im pretty sure I see NASA and boeing (amougst others) stickered on the side.

  • The original TU-144 was Russian only. The TU-145 was the one that the U.S and NASA where involved with. Same aircraft, just different number. It also retained the TU-144 designation on the outside of the aircraft I believe. Most of the footage you will see of the TU-144 was that aircraft.

  • why is america even in this

    america naver made a supersonic plane

    they make planes that explode in mid air lol

  • this was not maerican!!! It was russian!

  • Yes, and we all know of Norway's huge contribution in aviation manufacturing. Oh wait, that's right..you buy everyone else's aircraft!

  • There was a french Mirage fighter above the Tu-144 trying to take close photos of the canards, but the pilot didn't knew, and when he saw the Mirage above him, he performed a maneouver to avoid a crash with the Mirage, this produced a engine to stall, and as the pilot tried to restart the engines, the plane suffered structural failures and finally crashing.

  • WRONG!!

  • WTF???

    Why???

  • Here's why: "The cause of this accident is now thought to be due to changes made by the ground engineering team to the auto-stabilisation input controls prior to the second day of display flights. These changes were intended to allow the Tu-144 to outperform Concorde in the display circuit. Unfortunately, the changes also inadvertently connected some factory-test wiring which resulted in an excessive rate of climb, leading to the stall and subsequent crash." Bob Hoover's testimony substantiates.

  • american stole Browns ideas in rocket

    technology.

    Lte me put it this way......

    if you dont look for what your competition

    is doing ..you smply dont do your work properly.

  • When their plans was stolen ,did they do

    police report???

  • Well...I suppose..these things do happen now and then...but it is sad to see :(

    thank you for sharing this.

  • so stealing plans and using them to replicate an aircraft is not copying directly?

  • Oh dear.

  • Some aviation experts who were at the show, now who work for Air International, saw a mirage 3 dash across the path of the TU-144, may (or maybe not) have caused the crew to perform a violent pitch-up...

  • To Jed118 ok mr. kaputnik or mr. two by four and asphalt shingles. You know less then nothing, sometimes wikipedia is helpful, sometimes is bias. Tu-144 outperformed Concord in every aspect, regardles of afterburners. Afterburner was invented by Mikoyan/Gurevich in 1961Design Office, and Sukhoyan. First space shutle was invented and designed by S. Korolev as ESCAPE VEHICLE FROM SPACE STATION MIR. It should safely bring the crew back to Earth gliding through the space and atmsphere.

    Stolen again

  • what happened and did the crew bail out?

  • Trying to pull out of the subsequent dive, the plane broke up and crashed, destroying 15 houses and killing all six on board and eight on the ground. Wikipedia

    May they RIP.

    The pilot was trying to awoid collision with Mirage, purposely pretending the collision course and forcing the Tu-144 into tragic maneuver. Thats how Concorde won the market, not for long though, heh..hehe

  • all crew (6 souls including project deputy head constructor) died

    cause of accident is still unknown, the primary lead - violent maneuver which ТУ-144's crew had to execute to avoid collision with suddenly appeared french jet figther 'Mirage' (its pilot's mission was to take photos of soviet plane)

    kinda sad

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  • To AlphaHydroxyAcid

    IT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, INCOMPLITE DESIGN WAS STOLEN FROM TUPOLEV OFFICE, THAN PATCHED BY WEST EUROPEAN GENUSES, HEH... LOCATION OF ENGINES IS MUCH BETTER AT TU-144, SOUND BARIER WAS EASLY REACHED BY TU-144 AN 15 JULY 1969, CONCORDE DID IT ONE AND A HALF YEAR LATER AN 4 NOVEMBER 1970.

    BEAR IN MIND, FIRST AIRPLANE WAS DESIGN, CONSTRUCTED, AND FLOWN IN SUMMER OF 1855, BY ALEKSANDER MOYSHAYSKY IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

  • True, the TU-144 was a develpment of the Sukhoi T-4 'Sotka'

  • Sure, which is why Concorde didn't have to use its afterburners ALL THE TIME and had a much larger range.

    Russians rip everything off, and then build piss poor replicas of it, from LADA to Elektrolux (Polish, but still executed poorly due to Commies' natural limitations)

    Ever heard of the "Buran"?

  • Tu-144 copied this, Tu-144 copied that blah blah.

    Some plans of the Concorde were stolen, but they were not even close to enough to create a functioning aircraft. If you look closely, you can see many differences between the two. eg:

    1. The landing gear

    2. The engine layout

    3. The wings and the canards

    4. The cockpit

    5. The nose

    6. And many other things I can't even name.

  • anybody know what caused the crash? looks like some sort of mechanical failure

  • The pilot overstressed the airframe.

  • Because he had to make an emergency descend to avoid a collision with another aircraft that entered its airspace without permission.

  • The report states different. He overstressed the aircraft to create a more impressive display, and the airflow he caused created the engines to flame out and the wings to break up.

  • looks like a Concord.

  • of course it looks like a Concord, it was made with concord's plan !!

    given from URSS Spys

  • Concord is a place in the US, so it was modelled after a place?!

    Learn how to use 'e's