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Old 1st Jun 2016, 11:23
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As John Farley intimates in the video, the TU144 was technically inferior to Concorde. In particular the engine intakes and wing shape were a far superior design on the Anglo French aeroplane. If the Russians really had copied Concorde, they'd presumably have got those right! The TU144 crash was not a factor in its commercial failure, even though the BBC imply that it was!
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