in the story of my colleague sofya sergeeva, it is a round date for her, not just an informational occasionn the crew included vladimir nikolaevich benderov, the leading test engineer great-grandfather sonya, every aircraft you give birth goes all the way to aviation. at first it's just a plan, if you want a dream. it began to come true in december of the sixty-eighth on new year's eve , the creators of this car lived here at the airfield . every day they rolled out the tu-144 from the angara and waited for the weather. everyone was at the limit, suddenly we find ourselves the second installation from the top will definitely take off this year and on december 31st. the fog finally cleared this plane. tupolev new passenger supersonic handsome man. silhouette, tailless, it looks like a giant snow-white bird. during the flight, the aircraft developed a speed twice the speed of sound, that is, its passengers actually crossed the line, which was previously available only to a military pilot, lead test engineer sergei akimov learned about the first flight of the tu-144 from the news as a student