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"Trivia from Thursday's chat"
Posted by RobertVA on 09-06-01 at 20:14z
____________________Trivia for September 6, 2001:
Name the first Supersonic Passenger aircraft to be flight-tested AND the year of its first test flight.
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"RE: Trivia from Thursday's chat"
Posted by RobertVA on 10-04-01 at 13:38z
____________________Tupolev TU-144 (USSR) on last day of 1968
Its resemblence to the Concorde was so striking, some members of the Western press referred to it as "Concordeski"
The British / French Concorde was first flown about two months later.
The second TU-144 prototype broke up during a demostration flight at the 1973 Paris air show.
The type was placed into freight service in December of 1975.
Scheduled passenger flights were not conducted until late in 1977. Anouther fatal crash resulted in the type being taken out of passenger service in June of 1978. The planes are thought to have been retired from freight service in the early 1980s.
Source:
"The World's Worst Aircraft" Bill Yenne © 1987 Brompton Books Corp. ISBN 0-88029-490-6