Sukhoi T-4 Sotka (100) Soviet Heavy Supersonic Bomber landin

On August 22, 1972, chief pilot and hero of the USSR V.S. Ilyushin along with A. Alferov took off from Zhukovsky flight center. The flight lasted 40 minutes. During the ninth flight (6 August, 1973) the T-4 reached Mach=1.28 at a height of 12100 m above sea level. On January 22, 1974 the second stage of testing had started. During this flight T-4 reached Mach=1.36 at a height of 12000 m. At the second stage it was supposed to finish speed of an airplane up to 3000 km/h (Mach = 2,8) with a maximum take-off weight 128 t and to start tests «102» plane with the full complete set of avionics. But by March, 1974 all has stopped. Total flying time was made 10 h 20 min.

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• T-4
• supersonic
• bomber

[grimstuka]

Why is everybody discussing Tu-144 vs. Concorde on a video about the Sukhoi T-4?

Shouldn't it be T-4 vs. XB-70?

[Paulmichael9]

Looks Like the Tu-144

[Ouija121085]

@Paulmichael9 this is byproduct from TU144.

[TheFsb2009]

@yachttaboo Yes, "cold war" times were very intresting time of such a "sport". =)

[TheArtemZ]

It looks like tu 144 becouse Tupolev firts of all made T 4 and then out of T 4's technology tu 144 appeared

[Modellpecs]

Beautiful plane! Jaaaaaaaajjjjj....... :)

[buismlawina]

@yachttaboo i don't think so, athletes will always look for new drugs, and governing bodies will always look for new ways to detect them.

[Papi1960R]

I love to come and chat about planes on this site, but it can't always be 100%arguements. I'm a American Army officer, but even I can appreciate that the Soviet Union/Russia made some really innovative and beautiful Aircraft. Alot of them remind me of watching the "thunderbirds" as a child in England. Really cool stuff.

[ollenhauer1]

good bless the souwyertunion,udssr

[ArchiNart]

@DJ727ROBLOX ha ha get ur facts right. you can do look at wikipedia. Those programs where parallel in time, to say more..... russians made first flight one year before French.

Also you can read up TU-144 crash at Paris Air Show main competitor of Concorde crashing at French Air Show ....... Anyway, I don't like all those conspires theories, but it does look suspicious

[DJ727ROBLOX]

They copied off of Concorde's drawings. Concorde was the most recent SST.