Afaik, this is the pretty wide-spread misconcept about the development of
TU-144 / Concorde. The fact that the end-result was very similar and many
concepts were the same doesn't nesessarily mean that one was copy of
another. The ways both design teams traveled (making concept-proving
aircrafts based on fighters for example) were very similar and their design
choices were so limited that it would be wonder if the aircrafts would have
been more different than they really were. One has to remember also that at
this time russians were on very top of the supersonic aircraft engineering.
Good example of that was Mig-21. They also knew the theory of tailless
aircrafts and had some experience with them. Putting those things together
results pretty much in the same concept that they eventually flew.


Regards,
Kaido



"BllFs6" wrote in message
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The Soviets?


Thats more funny than you think...

Because if I recall correctly....they outright stole design info on the
Concorde....and the French/Brits let them do it and put a few "flaws" in
there
to boot...

After a few test flights, the Russian "me too SST" broke up in flight...

Thats IIRC and am not confusing this with something else...

Not to say the Russians cant be damn good engineers.....its just that this
was
not one of their finer moments....

take care

Blll