Tupolev - the fast one!

aah - here you go!

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Crazy Russian aircraft! Too bad all of the planes of that nature are gone. Nice photos.

is that Concordski

Yep - that's three concordski! (2 in the last shot). Definately a shame there not flying anymore.

I agree , its a shame concord or concordski dont fly

erm I see your in the uk , did you take a trip and find these in a russian plane graveyard ? I notice the helicopters too

Those are amazing planes, especially considrering how old they are..i hear there is a consortium of countries designing a new SST..

I'd like to see some of those old helis

err yeah! Had a trip out in August to see the MAKS show, a couple of bomber bases (blackjacks oh yeah!), museums and stuff. The tatty 144 is about here, and the tidier one is at Zhukovsky, and was flown by Nasa around 6 years ago!

bloody hell, it's a bullet with wings - nice macro

lol

love the 4th photo

I'm lovin' #4

Would you fly concordeski Airways NTLBD

Didn't they loose one and cover it up?

Desertraptor wrote:
Would you fly concordeski Airways NTLBD

Didn't they loose one and cover it up?

They famously lost one at the Paris airshow years back, not sure about anymore!

When nasa flew the one in the last pic, it had something to do with a new sst.....

Data collected from the research program was being used to develop the technology base for a proposed future American-built supersonic jetliner. Although actual development of such an advanced supersonic transport (SST) is currently on hold, commercial aviation experts estimate that a market for up to 500 such aircraft could develop by the third decade of the 21st Century. (from here)

Yes, there was the famous 1973 Paris Air Show crash. Conspiracy theorists argue that it crashed whilst taking evasive manouvers to avoid a French Airforce Mirage jet which was secretly filming it... allegedly the evasive manouvers caused the engines to stall...

... blame the French....

by 2030?
Funny how this was so possible 30 years ago and so difficult now?

Dew wrote:
Although actual development of such an advanced supersonic transport (SST) is currently on hold, commercial aviation experts estimate that a market for up to 500 such aircraft could develop by the third decade of the 21st Century. (from here)

Not with the fuel situation...gonna have to develop better propulsion,
and soon.

I think Rutan is on the right track..the Ultra long range aminals will wind up being suborbital...

but what do I know? <LOL>

Didja know that the Concorde grew over a foot in length while in flight at supersonic speeds? Makes designing such aircraft very difficult.