Ok, maybe "success" was the wrong word to use ;) Edit: for the uninitiated, the Tu-144 was a bit of deathtrap. While it made some interesting improvements to

Ok, maybe "success" was the wrong word to use ;) Edit: for the uninitiated, the Tu-144 was a bit of deathtrap. While it made some interesting improvements to the original design, it had numerous problems due to less advanced Soviet manufacturing.