FSX Tu-144 Concordski with VC - Updated multi livery version. , now fixed and uploaded exclusively to simviation by ricardo_tv. Textures: Aeroflot - American - AirFrance - British - Emirates - Lufthansa - Prototype. Updated from Thomas Ruth FS9 model with new gauges added to VC and panel. Maiden Flight: 31st December 1968, Zhukovsky, USSR Final Flight: 27th April 1973. Top Speed Reached: 2,443 km/h (Mach 2.30) Maximum Height Reached: 16,960 m Current Usage: Scrapped NOTES: At the end of 1968 the prototype "044" registered as CCCP-68001 was ready for the first flight. The late day of 1968, with pilot E.V. Yelian in the cockpit and without international observers, the prototype aircraft performed the first ever flight with a duration of 37 minutes. The crew reported that the aircraft proved to be flexible and easily piloted. Half a year later, on June 5, 1969 exceeded Mach 1 and on May 26, 1970 go into history as the first civil aircraft that reached Mach 2. In 1969 was presented to the world in Moscow and in 1971 flew to Paris to take part in the XXIX Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport. Studies and works developed on test flights with TU-144 "044" shows different problems like enhanced vibrations level and tail fuselage heating from the engines. Updated by Ricardo_tv Model by Thomas Ruth and VC fixed. Additional Textures sets by Ricardo_tv.