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[Skydrol]

 

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[Drawnnite]

Robbie Miranda many years ago.

 

[Skydrol]

One of NASA's dirty little secrets. Anybody know what is this?

 

[Reaper]

^^^ Nasa's flying lobotomy

 

[Skydrol]

Tupolev Tu-144 LL

In the early 1990s, a wealthy businesswoman, Judith DePaul, and her company IBP Aerospace negotiated an agreement with Tupolev, NASA, Rockwell and laterBoeing. They offered a Tu-144 as a testbed for its High Speed Commercial Research program, intended to design a second-generation supersonic jetliner called the High Speed Civil Transport. In 1995, Tu-144D No. 77114 (with only 82.5 hours of flight time) was taken out of storage and after extensive modification at a cost of US$350 million, designated the Tu-144LL (where LL is a Russian abbreviation for Flying Laboratory, Russian: Letayuschaya Laboratoriya, Летающая Лаборатория). The aircraft made a total of 27 flights during 1996 and 1997. Though regarded as a technical success, the project was cancelled for lack of funding in 1999.

Har har... flying lobotomy......

 

[VS 5.0]

 

[Immortality]

Those Ruskies were great at copying Western aircraft

 

[commodore665]

Ingemar Johannssen knocks down Floyd Patterson 1959

 

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