"Put it in H!"
"Put it in H!"
Old Soviet stuff is just so endearingly clunky.
The TU144 was also VERY loud for the passengers (the plane used afterburner the entire flight) and scary unreliable.
Out of 102 flights and 181 hours in the air, the Tupolev Tu-144 suffered 226 failures. 80 of them were mid-flight.
Concorde used an electronic engine management developed by Lucas
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.aerotime.aero/rytis.beresnevicius/23029-lost-brother-of-concorde-story-tupolev-tu-144
Pic unintentionally related:
That's good for a punch in the head.
Duke said:
Old Soviet stuff is just so endearingly clunky.
This photo reminds me of a story I heard that may or may not be true. Kruschev once visited the US, flying in a TU-114 (the airliner variant of the TU-95 Bear bomber. One of that plane's quirks was a fuselage that sat very, very high off the ground. Supposedly the airport they landed at didn't have a mobile staircase tall enough to access the fuselage door, so he had to stay on the plane for several hours until someone could locate one.
In reply to Will :
I heard that same story - apparently it was the first time a Soviet leader to visit the US since ever, so of course he had to come in the baddestest airplane they had.
Wally said:
I would have put the extraneous quotes around “valet” and “parked”, myself.
Duke said:Wally said:
I would have put the extraneous quotes around “valet” and “parked”, myself.
Only if you want to use the quotation marks correctly. Good point!
This came home from daycare.
Just me and several tons of American luxury getting ready to dodge (hit?) some cones.
In reply to 914Driver :
I think that's a Spitfire.
In reply to OnTheChip :
No question about it being a Spit
Might have to buy this one. It only seems fair to warn people:
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