Tupolev Tu-144 - Red Star Vol. 24 by Gordon, Yefim,Rigmant, Vladimir Midland Pu

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ISBN
9781857802160
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Allan Publishing, Ian
ISBN-10
1857802160
ISBN-13
9781857802160
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51062531

Product Key Features

Original Language
Russian
Book Title
Tupolev Tu-144 : Russia's Concorde
Number of Pages
127 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Aviation / General, Military / Aviation
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, History
Author
Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov, Vladimir Rigmant
Book Series
Red Star Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-365087
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
Vol. 24
Dewey Decimal
629.133340947
Synopsis
The rapid development of commercial aviation in the 1950s and 1960s, coupled with the advancing aircraft technology, led Great Britain and France to pool resources to create the famous supersonic Concorde airliner. As soon as the Soviet government got wind of this programme it tasked the national aircraft industry with an even more ambitious project: the Soviet Union was to create an SST entirely on its own - and ahead of the West; this was a matter of national prestige. Predictably, Andrey N. Tupolev, received the assignment to create the airliner that would place the Soviet Union in the lead. At the cost of a tremendous research and development effort, the target was met - designated Tu-144 (and dubbed, rather mockingly, Concordski by the West/, the Soviet SST took to the air in December 1968 ahead of its Anglo-French counterpart. The book gives a detailed account of the Tu-144's design and explains the reasons of its premature withdrawal ...
LC Classification Number
TL686.T77

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