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Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

SkippyBing

'The Tu-144 wasn't 'unreliable', it suffered two crashes'

I'd call that fairly unreliable considering the low number of flights it managed to achieve.

Space programmes tend to have a higher tolerance for fatal crashes* so their use by the Russian space programme and NASA don't indicate any degree of reliability.

*The Space Shuttle suffered an appalling fatality/flight ratio.

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