Hello,
For those interested, I have put online the new version of Avialogs.com, as the web site is almost finish now, I will have more time to push new documents and movies on a regular basis (one or two per week).
I have posted several parts of the Tu-144 manual, including all cockpit description. It is in Russian (izvi`nite..) but with a lot of graphics.
http://avialogs.com/featured/tupolev-tu-144/
Enjoy,
Benoit
By: Kosmos929 - 31st March 2025 at 10:53
Thank you!
By: Papa Lima - 31st March 2025 at 10:53
A couple of recent pics here:
http://www.planesandchoppers.com/picture/number9012.asp
http://www.planesandchoppers.com/picture/number9011.asp
By: RPSmith - 31st March 2025 at 10:53
A ‘labour of love’ Benoit, well done.
One small point. Have only had a quick look through it so far. Is there a list of the remaining aircraft and their status (ie where they are)?
Roger Smith.
By: WP840 - 31st March 2025 at 10:52
When were the canards added and how many aircraft had them fitted?
By: avialogs - 31st March 2025 at 10:52
A ‘labour of love’ Benoit, well done.
One small point. Have only had a quick look through it so far. Is there a list of the remaining aircraft and their status (ie where they are)?
Roger Smith.
Manufacturer drop down on the right 😉
I will rename it as “other aircrafts”…
The page technical documents archive will be completed today too.
By: T J Johansen - 31st March 2025 at 10:52
Is there a list of the remaining aircraft and their status (ie where they are)?
Roger Smith.
A guy named Ben posted this list at the airliners.net forum in 2003. I added a couple of updates, but it is far from complete.
SSSR-68001 First flying prototype. First flight 31 December 1968.
-77102 Crashed at the Paris Air Show, 3 June 1973.
-77103 Fate unknown.
-77104 Never wore this registration and was instead re-registered SSSR-77144 and used for exhibition flights. Fate unknown.
-77105 On the Zhukovsky Air Base scrap heap (anyone seen ‘the dump’? very interesting indeed). Modified for new engines (RD-36-51A and hence became Tu-144D). Fate unknown.
-77106 In the Monino Museum, 29 February 1980.
-77107 Aviation Institute Kazan, Russia by June 2002.
-77108 Museum in Samara, 27 August 1987. One of two aircraft to operate the Moscow-DME to Almaty passenger service. Stored at Samara, Russia by March 2009
-77109 Stored at VASO (Voronezh Aircraft Construciton Organisation). One of two aircraft to operate the Moscow-DME to Almaty passenger service.
-77110 Stored Ulyanovsk, Russia by June 2006.
-77111 (D) In-flight fire and written off after emergency landing at Yegorievsk while still ‘brand new’.
-77112 (D) Previously stored at Zhukovsky. Now at the Sinsheim Museum, Germany.
-77113 (D) Stored at Zhukovsky.
-77114 (D / LL) Used by Nasa/Boeing/Tupolev/Etc as the SST testbed and re-designated Tu-144LL (Letalushaya Laboritoriya ‘Flying Laboratory’). Stored at Zhukovsky
-77115 (D) Stored at Zhukovsky.
T J
By: Larry66 - 31st March 2025 at 10:51
Ah nice, the original concorde! I saw a docu. on this on what was then Discovery Wings-(since changed to Discovery turbo)
Good stuff!
By: Flanker_man - 31st March 2025 at 10:51
It isn’t an aircraft that floats my boat, but, FWIW, here are some airframes wot I have photographed over the years….
RA-77114 at Zhukovsky, 2005…
CCCP-77106 at Monino, 2005…
CCCP-77108 at Samara, 2007….
Tu-144LL at Zhukovsky, 2007…..
Immaculately restored CCCP-77115 in 2007 – It is supposed to go on display at the entrance to Zhukovsky…….
The Tu-144LL was still there…..
CCCP-77115 in 2009 – still not mounted above the entrance!
Enjoy
Ken
By: Mr Angry - 31st March 2025 at 10:51
CCCP-77108 looks in a bad way.
By: Papa Lima - 31st March 2025 at 10:51
Hi Ken!
That bush in front of 114’s wing has grown a bit in 40 years – I wonder if it’s the same guard as on my picture, linked above, he’ll be getting fed up!
By: zoot horn rollo - 31st March 2025 at 10:44
The Zhukovsky scrap dump? Here it is in 1993…
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