Comments on: Russian Watches Inspired by Soviet-Era Achievements http://siberianlight.net/russian-watches-inspired-by-soviet-era-achievements/ The Russia Blog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:05:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: RP (unofficially) http://siberianlight.net/russian-watches-inspired-by-soviet-era-achievements/comment-page-1/#comment-2376 RP (unofficially) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:23:24 +0000 http://www.siberianlight.net/?p=1884#comment-2376 I'd like to add that TU-144 ended up being one the most unsuccessful Soviet civil aviation airplanes. If I'm not mistaken, out of the 20 produced TU-144's 5 or so crashed, one of them - at the Paris Air Show on 3 June 1973. <abbr><em>RP (unofficially)´s last blog post..<a href="http://thepresidentofrussia.blogspot.com/2009/06/vladimir-putins-niece-vera-putina.html" rel="nofollow">Vladimir Putin's niece Vera Putina</a></em></abbr> I’d like to add that TU-144 ended up being one the most unsuccessful Soviet civil aviation airplanes. If I’m not mistaken, out of the 20 produced TU-144′s 5 or so crashed, one of them – at the Paris Air Show on 3 June 1973.

RP (unofficially)´s last blog post..Vladimir Putin’s niece Vera Putina

]]> By: Carlo http://siberianlight.net/russian-watches-inspired-by-soviet-era-achievements/comment-page-1/#comment-2375 Carlo Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:34:20 +0000 http://www.siberianlight.net/?p=1884#comment-2375 Very interesting article! Just one small correction: the Tu-144 is not flying anymore, for 10 years already. In 1998-1999 one was adapted to be a flying laboratory (LL in Russian), used in high-speed test flights in a joint program by NASA, Boeing and Tupolev, to develop a new-generation Supersonic Transport (SST). But the American partners came to the conclusion that the SSTs were not feasible economically, and dropped from the project. Very interesting article! Just one small correction: the Tu-144 is not flying anymore, for 10 years already. In 1998-1999 one was adapted to be a flying laboratory (LL in Russian), used in high-speed test flights in a joint program by NASA, Boeing and Tupolev, to develop a new-generation Supersonic Transport (SST). But the American partners came to the conclusion that the SSTs were not feasible economically, and dropped from the project.

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