First Tu-144 Body Transported Thru Moscow

When the first ever copy of Tu-144 supersonic airliner was conceived they didn’t build it all together in one factory area. They built the fuselage in one place, inside Moscow city and then decided to move it to Zhukovski city where it should be supplemented with all other parts and systems. To move such thing out of the Moscow research center thru the city streets they had to build specially built trolleys that could turn the streets, as back in 1968 they didn’t have ready made means of transportation for this task. These are a few photos of this event.

Full album is here: First Tu-144 Body Transported Thru Moscow

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