Concordski

[serdarbadoglu]

Anybody knows the destinations for the scheduled flights of TU-144?  ???

[Hagar]

I found this with a quick search on Google. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/enc3/tupolev_tu-144

In service

The Tu-144S went into service on December 26, 1975,  flying mail and freight between Moscow and Alma-Ata in preparation for passenger services, which commenced in November 1977 and ran a semi-scheduled service until the first Tu-144D experienced an in-flight failure during a pre-delivery test flight, and crash-landed with crew fatalities on May 23, 1978. The Aeroflot flight on June 1, 1978 would be the Tu-144's 55th and last scheduled passenger service.

A scheduled Aeroflot freight-only service recommenced using the new production variant Tu-144D aircraft on 23 June 1979, including longer routes from Moscow to Khabarovsk made possible by the more efficient RD-36-51 engines used in the Tu-144D version. Including the 55 passenger flights there were 102 scheduled Aeroflot flights before retirement of commercial services.

It is known that Aeroflot still continued to fly the Tu-144D after the official end of service, with some additional non-scheduled flights through the 1980s. One last report showed that it was used on a flight from the Crimea to Kiev in 1987.

[Delta_]

The TU-144LL is used as a flying laboratory for NASA.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news ... -DFRC.html

[cheesegrater]

You mean was used, as the aircraft hasn't flown for years, and is missing its engines.

Russian news announced that the Tu-144LL (77114) was recently sold for scrap as well as the last Tu-144 built (77115).

http://www.aviapedia.com/news/two-tu-14 ... p-20060315

[expat]

"Very strange question - how in general was possible to sell the state treasure to private companies. City government has no answer".

Cut from the above link artical..............sound familiar does it not :-/

Matt

[serdarbadoglu]

i'm trying to get complete list of tu-144 routes but it seems that it's not easy to find enough info about tu-144 routes.  :(

[cheesegrater]

Apparently CCCP-77115 has been saved from scrapping.

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/ge ... n/2813363/

Includes some pictures and a cool story.

[Ivan]

[quote]i'm trying to get complete list of tu-144 routes but it seems that it's not easy to find enough info about tu-144 routes.

[The Ruptured Duck]

I got a better name than concordski->  Concordolev

[serdarbadoglu]

In fact she has already a good name "CHARGER" given by NATO.

[cheesegrater]

Hey, what city is this Tu-144 in?

http://perso.wanadoo.es/tu144sst/fleet/ ... 77115b.jpg

Couple years ago I saw this picture on a web site that said it was in LA. Is this true? Is this even a real picture?

[Ivan]

Looks like a fake pic to me... logos don't match the real CCCP-77115, and the nose cone is suspicious too (too flat on the top)

[serdarbadoglu]

Looks like a fake pic to me...

Yeah. It seems a fake pic. But wait.. May be she was the "LL".  ???

[Ivan]

[quote]
Yeah. It seems a fake pic. But wait.. May be she was the "LL".

[dcunning30]

Hey, what city is this Tu-144 in?

http://perso.wanadoo.es/tu144sst/fleet/ ... 77115b.jpg

Couple years ago I saw this picture on a web site that said it was in LA. Is this true? Is this even a real picture?

I recognize that location.