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the only other civilian airliner able to break the speed of sound was the Soviet union Tupolev tu-144,
A variant of the Tupolev was used in experiments by Nasa, and American and Russian aerospace industries, in a joint research program after the end of the Cold war.
The end of the Concorde and Tupolev airliners left the supersonic market empty. But now, 12 years after the Concorde fleet last flew,
The Concordes and Tupolevs that paved the way for supersonic air travel in the 1970s now gather dust in museums.
and British Aircraft Corp. The Tupolev tu-144 or"Charger"built by Voronezh Aircraft Production Association. No sonic boom on ground But the patent says its main improvement over those two is that it reduces the noise of the sonic boom a loud bang caused by shockwaves created by an object moving faster than the speed of sound."
the Soviet union's TUPOLEV TU-144"Concordski"had an extremely short career after a fatal crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973.
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