Topic: Herpa 1:400 Tu-144 NASA Supersonic Flying Lab
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Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
posted 01-26-2015 07:53 AM
Just seen this one from Herpa at 1:400 scale: Tu-144LL NASA Supersonic Flying Laboratory RA-77114.
Between 1996 and 1997, the TU-144 was jointly modernized by NASA, Boeing, Rockwell and Tupolev as a flying laboratory for testing of a new generation of supersonic passenger aircraft and deployed on numerous test flights. The initials "LL" stands for "Letayuschaya Laboratoriya" — flying laboratory.