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Russia Built a Stunning Rival to the Supersonic Concorde—and Then It Fell From the Sky
AFTER WEEKS OF rain and fog at Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airfield, site of the Soviet Union’s top flight test center, New Year’s Eve 1968 dawned with more of the same. This was immensely discouraging for members of the flight test team, who had been working …