{"id":102269,"date":"2026-05-07T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102269"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:46:09","slug":"tu-144-concordeski-speed-spies-and-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/07\/tu-144-concordeski-speed-spies-and-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Tu-144 Concordeski &#8211; Speed, Spies and Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/omM-vr5MXtE?si=oFknbypik9Dfck_C\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>HardThrasher<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 4 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>In great secrecy, in 1963 the USSR set about making aviation history with the world&#8217;s first Supersonic Transport (SST). In 1968, five months before Concorde, the Tu-144 became the first passenger jet to break the sound barrier. But it was a white elephant that crashed on multiple occasions, killed hundreds and flew for just a matter of months after over a decade of development. It was, perhaps the first of a string of failures that brought down the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; 11:06 &#8211; Introduction and Background<br \/>\n11:07 &#8211; 23:10 &#8211; The Decision is made to build<br \/>\n23:10 &#8211; 35:31 &#8211; And then it got worse &mdash; how everything fell apart<br \/>\n35:32 &#8211; 39:10 &#8211; The En Crashening &mdash; From First Flight to Constant Crashes<br \/>\n39:11 &#8211; 48:49 &#8211; Enter the KGB &mdash; What role did spies play<br \/>\n49:22 &#8211; End &#8211; Like, Subscribe, Join the Patreon<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anthem by Shittyflute &#8211;    \/ @shittyflute  <\/p>\n<p>I can be found here<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/x.com\/LordHardThrashe<br \/>\nBluesky &#8211; https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/lordhardthra&#8230;<br \/>\nPatreon &#8211; patreon.com\/LordHardThrasher<br \/>\nMerch &#8211; https:\/\/hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HardThrasher Published 4 May 2026 In great secrecy, in 1963 the USSR set about making aviation history with the world&#8217;s first Supersonic Transport (SST). In 1968, five months before Concorde, the Tu-144 became the first passenger jet to break the sound barrier. But it was a white elephant that crashed on multiple occasions, killed hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1117,7,1119,15,13],"tags":[311,263,123,108,140,476,1579,433],"class_list":["post-102269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-france","category-history","category-russia","category-technology","category-usa","tag-1960s","tag-1970s","tag-aircraft","tag-coldwar","tag-design","tag-espionage","tag-lordhardthrasher","tag-sovietunion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qBv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102270,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102269\/revisions\/102270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}