THE AVIATIONIST · DEFENSE
A TU-144 ‘RUSSIAN CONCORDE’ IS BEING RESTORED FOR DISPLAY AHEAD OF EXPECTED MAKS RETURN...
Videos posted by a Russian volunteer show the ongoing repair work on one of the two Tu-144s at Zhukovsky airport in Moscow, and which was often used as a static display during the MAKS airshow.
SCOTT: Every ugly workaround in a cockpit is someone solving a real aerodynamic problem. Concorde’s nose is the most photogenic version of a lesson we still teach: the airframe will not apologize for your sight picture.