1968年的最后一天,在苏联一座机场上,修长机身、三角机翼、宛如巨鸟的一架新飞机准备进行首次试飞。离这只巨鸟低垂的尖嘴几百米的地方,一辆小汽车旁站着一位八旬老人,他要亲眼看着这架飞机首飞。这架飞机就是世界首架超声速客机图-144,而这位老人则是图波列夫设计局掌门人安德烈·尼古拉耶维奇·图波列 On the last day of 1968, at a Soviet airport, a slender fuselage, a triangular wing and a giant bird-like new aircraft were preparing for the first flight test. A few hundred meters away from the beak that drooped down from the giant bird, an eight-year-old man stood by a small car, who was to watch for the first flight of the plane. The plane is the world’s first supersonic passenger aircraft Figure -144, while the elderly is Tupolev Design Bureau head Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev