Over the years hundreds and hundreds of odd looking planes have been manufactured, the Soviet Concorde is one of them and in this video we take a look at what makes this plane such an unpleasant ride, a one you would definitely avoid. To begin with, this is actually not even a Concorde. It is actually called the Tupolev TU-144, but its resemblance to the Concorde is so similar that we are going to refer to it as the Soviet Concorde. But flying on it was way different than the Concorde.
It was loud and uncomfortable, and even dangerous. But the story behind this plane is what makes it so unique. In order to build the first ever supersonic passenger jet back in the 1960s, the Soviets stole most of the ideas and manuscripts from the Concorde and based their 144 on them.
Though the Tupolev made its first flight two months before the Concorde, it was not a plane to be proud of. There was not any comfort inside the plane; the passengers struggled to get serviced by the flight attendants. There was also a very load roar that could have been heard from the back. The passengers could not even talk to one another due to the noise! But lucky enough, the Soviet Concorde flew only across one route, which is the one from Moscow to Almaty in Kazakhstan. This was due to the massive fuel consumption by the engines and it was not possible to fly for longer. This was not a Concorde you would want to fly with!
