Tu-144 bumpy landing

Jeez, that thing looks cool on approach. Filmed in the late 1990s, I think, when the Tu-144 was briefly flown as a test vehicle for NASA and others.

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[lordofbore]

concorde was a success BA actaully used to make a profit operating concorde we will never see supersonic airliners again because the world is run by pen pushing blotter jotting bean counting weeds

I bet if concorde had been built by boeing there would have been hundreads flying today!!

there was a lot of crap talked about concorde like the fact it would make whales go deaf and it would "punch"holes in the ozone layer

[hostroute]

IBP Aerospace negotiated an agreement with Tupolev and NASA, (also Rockwell and later Boeing). They offered a Tu-144 as a testbed for its High Speed Commercial Research program, intended to design a second-generation supersonic jetliner called the High Speed Civil Transport. In 1995, Tu-144D built in 1981 was taken out of storage and after modification at a total cost of $350 million was designated the Tu-144LL. It made a total of 27 flights in 1996 and 1997.

[teemas10]

@mikeplay007 don't be silly. Concorde was way more advanced in every single way. The engines on the Concorde could go 50% further mileage than this. It's landing speed was 50% lower. Concorde was lighter and way more advanced. This aircraft needs a parachute to stop while Concorde uses anti lock brakes, and reverse thrust. Fly-by-wire technology/controls. Concordes is still advanced to this day. ur statement has been blown out of the water. O and Concordes much more better looking.

[beeroosterm]

@dolby338 Yes. The combination of poor visibility and very stiff pitch controls contribute to a difficult landing profile.

[mikeplay007]

@Work4What TU144 technologically superiour to CONCORDE. I think crash was not an acident and not faliour, it was crashed becouse in the middle of a cold war America and the west could not aloww Soviets to be superiour in such important point and to make Soviet technology look bad, incenirated crash.

[thibaulthalpern]

What happens to the parachute immediately after it lands? Is there a retracting device to pull the parachute back in or is it just dragged on the ground during taxiing?

[dolby338]

Because of the deltawing design, the centre of rotation (when the plane rotates in pitch) lies far forward. Thus, when the pilot pulls back on the stick to "flare" the landing, the first thing that happens is that the plane "descends". The "descent" is actually the plane reacting to the nose up command from the pilot. Eventually, the plane would have "flared" had it not been so close to the ground. The pilot should have used power to cushion the landing instead. Probably a tricky plane to land

[etiennedauphin]

You are right, I don't think this video is from the late 90s, but rather from the late 70s. Can anybody confirm?

Anyways, from what I gather, it was an extremely touchy airplane to land, and this landing seems right in the norms.

[mikoyan25]

It looks like it was deliberately landed that way. The gear only seems to very lightly touch down the first time. Anyone speak to that?

[thunderdragon14]

this is one hard to fly plane

[Work4What]

Don't quite understand this video. I thought the TU144 was a 1970's soviet 'concorde' equivelant. Why is it flying years later as a Nasa aircraft? Remember the original crash though.