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It was intended to be the crown jewel of Soviet aircraft production, but it barely flew in passenger traffic. The Tupolev office was given four years to develop the supersonic aircraft. The rush and competition with the West came at a heavy price. What was the bumpy road leading to the first takeoff of the Tu-144? How did they achieve a cruising speed of over Mach 2 and a range of around 6,000 km? How did they try to revive the supersonic type with American assistance in the 1990s? Aircraft with a larger capacity or much faster than any previous one? Which has greater prestige? These questions preoccupied airlines and aircraft manufacturers in the 1960s. Many thought that supersonic passenger transport was clearly the future. A serious competition began between the Eastern and Western blocs to see who would be the first. The Soviet Union, Europe and the USA were all working on their own type. While at the end of 1968, the first supersonic passenger plane took to the air, and it was the Tu-144. Géza Zainkó, the guide of the Aeropark, told about the Soviet Concorde. (Editor: Balázs Kránitz)