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Old Jul 18, 2003 | 3:57 pm
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If I am not mistaken NOBODY flew it excpet for some test pilots and some Tupolev staff. One of them crashed at a Paris airshow and they never flew again.

It looks like Concorde because it actually WAS a Concorde. Russian spies stole all the blueprints for Concorde over a period of many years.

When it crashed the French secret service was blamed...

NASA has bought one of them and might be using it as a test platform.
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