<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Tango:
The Russian stole many of the concord design features in building their own plane.</font>
NOVA (the PBS show) did a show on the Soviety espionage effort against the Concorde in 2000 - "Supersonic Spies". The transcipt is available online for those who have never seen the episode (it airs in re-runs now and then).
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mikey1003:
Do the Russians make any plane where the wings don't droop?</font>
The original TU-144 prototype (that flew on 12/31/68) had wings that were far "straighter". Only after they recovered Concorde blueprints and saw pictures of the 001 prototype did they come with a much more "droopy" double-delta wing - like Concorde.
[This message has been edited by SEA_Tigger (edited 05-14-2003).]