At the height of the Cold War, two superpowers and a new European consortium went head-to-head in a battle for supersonic passenger jet supremacy: the Anglo-French Concorde project, the TU-1... Read allAt the height of the Cold War, two superpowers and a new European consortium went head-to-head in a battle for supersonic passenger jet supremacy: the Anglo-French Concorde project, the TU-144 in the USSR, and the Boeing 2707 in the US.At the height of the Cold War, two superpowers and a new European consortium went head-to-head in a battle for supersonic passenger jet supremacy: the Anglo-French Concorde project, the TU-144 in the USSR, and the Boeing 2707 in the US.