>>1554045>steal concorde designs>make bootleg concorde earlier>bootleg concorde can technically fly faster and carry more people>but>loud as fuck, vibrates to the point of damaging itself, inherently less stable airflow and thrust distribution>not to mention all the little unpleasantness of riding as a passenger like, you know, toilets not fucking working>single route between Moscow and Kazakhstan>burned so much fuel it couldn't even cross it's mother country, much less trans-atlantic flight>inferior engines required constant afterburn to maintain supersonic speed>for every flight there were 2 non-critical and 1 critical mechanical failures>crashed during the Paris airshow>a cargo variant crashed a year later from a fuel line rupture>and a third had a fucking engine detonate>retired from passenger service less than a year after launchLook, props to the USSR for managing to make a quick and dirty concorde and rush it out before France did it's thing, but the Tu-144 was a fucking trainwreck of an aircraft in every category.
