> Still, while the idea sounds crazy now, it must have seemed possible in the heady 1960s when supersonic airliners were the holy grail of air travel. It was an

> Still, while the idea sounds crazy now, it must have seemed possible in the heady 1960s when supersonic airliners were the holy grail of air travel. It was an era that spawned Europe's Concorde and America's abortive SST Given the context, the Tu-144 seems like a glaring omission here, and perhaps was one more reason why the government wasn't interested in a supersonic passenger MiG.