RARE TUPOLEV TU-144 LL RA-77114 Tupolev/NASA SST video

Part of the movie Les ailes du futur - 2l3 - Géants et supersoniques civils

Hero of the Russian Federation, the test pilot 1st class captain Sergey Borisov talks about Tupolev Tu-144 LL flight testing.

In July, 1983 this aircraft was designated as "101" and established 14 world records. These records were including a height of flight of 18,200 m with payload from 10 to 30 tons, average speed of 2,031.55 km/h on a closed circuit of 1,000 km and 2,012.26 km/h on a closed circuit of 2,000 km.

When the TU-144 program was cancelled, CCCP-77114 was used as research aircraft in experiments about the radiation in top layers of the atmosphere, ozone layer, thermal influence in different materials and studies on aerodynamics. In 1990 was placed in nonflyable storage.

In 1993 08-2 was chosen to serve as testbed in a joint program between Tupolev, NASA and others US firms. The aircraft suffered an extensive modification that included the power plant, former Koliesov RD-36-51A engines were replaced by Kuznetsov NK-321 (engines of the TU-160 bomber). The new model was designated TU-144LL Flying Laboratory.

The first flight of TU-144LL was on November 29, 1996 and a total of 27 flights were realized until the end of the program in 1999.

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[Modellpecs]

@nucleartactician As it is useing TU-160 engines it sure has. ;) All 144 had.

[nucleartactician]

I thought the LL doesn't have afterburners?

[teamfab]

@juanlmesl Well said...

[juanlmesl]

@MovieMakers59 what do you know about engineering? this airplane flew first and just like the first satellite and the first men on space this plane was just another first for the world.

[MovieMakers59]

@rulezz123 Hi to you :)

[rulezz123]

@MovieMakers59 you might better FUCK yourself, you sick french, american or whichever fucked up hole you are from. Mr. Tupolev was one of most unique and talented engineers ever. There are couple of things only the russians had made and you are hadn´t ever dreamed of. Faggot!

[MrPhucdatbich]

@MovieMakers59 Other than the Tu-144 flew first. 

[Modellpecs]

@beeroosterm :D

[beeroosterm]

@Modellpecs Here, I'll give it a go: "Regard the Tupolev Tu-144 - the biggest pile of shit ever manufactured". That about sums it up...

[Modellpecs]

@MovieMakers59 Don't think so.... If it was true, than the two planes should be the same. But they are very different.