The country’s Minister of Transport, Vitaly Savelyev, said that Russia cannot do without supersonic civil aviation. writes about this TASS.
“Our country already has experience with relevant developments,” the minister said at the plenary session of the Russian Transport forum.
Speaking about the operation of the Tu-144 supersonic aircraft, Savelyev emphasized that “this machine was ahead of its time.” The minister added that Russia now has developments to create such an aircraft on a new technological basis.
Savelyev said on Channel 1 in 2022 that Russian aviation will return to passenger transportation with supersonic aircraft. He explained that he was “deeply confident” in this matter. The minister explained that aircraft such as Tu-144 and Concorde were ahead of their time and the transport infrastructure was not ready for them. In his opinion, both planes were “a little early.”
The Tu-144 is a Soviet supersonic passenger aircraft developed by the Tupolev design bureau in the 1960s. The first test flight took place on December 31, 1968. This was the world’s first flight of a supersonic passenger aircraft. The Anglo-French Concorde made its first test flight on 2 March 1969.
However, the use of the Tu-144 in civil aviation did not last long. Why – in material “Newspapers.Ru”.
Previously in Moscow presented new Boeing 737-900 “GR Derzhavin.”