#tu 144

[fandomate]

[thycoop]

Cover of the day: Day 8: Mint airmail envelope from the Soviet Union

I have another Soviet Stationery envelope to show you (Sorry, but it is one of my main interests), I'll try to post some variaty later, but not today! MUAHAHAHAH JK

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Today I have something special for the 2^3rd anniversary! TWO COVERS, yes you heard me 2 whole covers!

The first one was sent... never, well because this is a mint cover (Mint means unused, but you probably already knew that) This is the first mint cover in the COTD series, so I can't talk about postmarks or when it was sent... because it was never sent!

This envelope has an indicium of a 1966 16 kopeck stamp, and it was made in 1977, to be specific the 11th of april, 'how do I know that' you may ask, (Almost) every paper item made in the USSR has the date of issue/manufacture printed and price on the back (This includes Envelopes, Postcards, Records, some books, ETC)

The thing on this envelope

The thing on the cover from day 5 (Sorry it's a bit hard to write with a mouse)

So thanks to Soviet standards, I and now you(!) can tell this envelope was issued on the 11th of April 1977.

Lets now talk about the cachet on this cover. The cachet features the Tupolev-154, a jet airliner produced by Tupolev in The Soviet Union and then The Russian Federation. It shouldn't be confused with the Tupolev-144, the (mostly) forgotten first supersonic jet airliner. It's first flight was about 2 months before the Concorde, and entered service less than 1 month before the Concorde, in December 1975. And the first passenger service (Between Moscow and Alma-Ata) in November 1977, but due to it being horribly designed, it wasn't very popular; reportedly you had to yell to the person for them to hear you, because the engines were so loud, even if they were sitting right next to you, and if they were sitting 2 seats away from you, you couldn't hear them even if they were screaming and the only way to communicate was by passing handwritten notes (Source), and it wasn't very nice to ride on them. That led to passenger services being cancelled only 7 months later on 1st of June 1978. But they remained in production until 1983, and were used by The Soviet Millitary , Soviet Space Program(Late 80s), and NASA (Until 1999!).

Oops I went on a bit of a tangent there. The TU-154 was produced from 1968 up until 2013(!), over a thousand were produced and are still in use by for passenger services in North Korea (They are predictably the only passenger user left), For millitary service in Russia, China and Kazakhstan, and Goverment service in Kyrgystan.

Of course being one of the most produced jet airliners ever, quite a lot of accidents and incidents have happened with TU-154's (110 accidents) for a total of 2911 fatalities. Moje Sožalje/My condolences.

Welp, Here's the full mint unhinged cover, in all it's glory

Wow, look at it, isn't is preetee??????

Oh yeah, we have another cover to talk about. You may have asked yourselves 'How did you chose which two covers to add?'. Well its pretty self explanatory, it's a postally used version of the same envelope sent on the 23rd of March 1981 from Vilnius, Soviet Lithuania to Marbella, Spain. It was also uprated to 32 Kopecks with a 1961 16 kopeck stamp.

I dont have anything else to say so... HERES THE COVER

P.S. Wow this was a lot longer than I expected. Don't expect other posts to be this long, sorry.

[touteytout]

sneep snorp

[nocternalrandomness]

Tupolev Tu-144 demo at the 1973 Paris Airshow

[nelc]

When NASA owned a Tu-144 Concordski

[usafphantom2]

[i-am-thevoid]

you may think itd be cool and fun to talk to me then BOOM 100000000000000 facts about the TU-144

[hibiscuswolverine]

I love the French-British Concorde it’s soo stupid looking, it looks like the borzoi as a plane

[cosmicinflationkink]

its the same regarding rocketry and space exploration. lots of talk about "Falcon 9 clones". such a toddler mindset. if a design works, it works. they get so mad when someone plays with their toys (or rather a toy that looks and functions similarly). also a lot of them just dismiss chinese spaceflight successes entirely because of this (and other sinophobic reasons) and then talk about how science should be evaluated neutrally whenever anyone criticizes the economic and sociopolitical context of their toys.

redditboys on like military subreddits are so funny because they whine and complain about china so-called "stealing plane designs" from the United States as if like, even if that were true, why would that fucking matter. like it's nooooo it's not fair *I* designed this fighter jet first, it's not fair that YOU stole my homework and also removed the stupid fucking jumpjet capabilities so it's cheaper and more useful >:C the J-35A is STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY... like. idk why you thought that "intellectual property" was something that anybody should like. care about or respect, ESPECIALLY in regards to military technology... like we're not playing a video game, this is real life. like that's not how weapons technology works dude

[boeing-787]

i know the borz concorde is popular but really if any plane deserves title of Doggy Plane it is the tu-144 because of those canards its LITERALLY just a big ol' pair of ears

This is a dog.

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

Trick or treat!

You get:

Tupolev Tu-144

[petro1986]

Get fucked ya mooks! Full afterburner at 5k feet across Manhattan! I had to fly out of Luganda ya dinglebops!

[o-nexis]

мразоти.

одна ніч. 23 літака. 120 ракет. 90 шахедів.

On the night of November 17, 2024, the ruzzian occupiers carried out a massive combined attack on the energy sector facilities of Ukraine with various types of air-, land-, and sea-based missiles, as well as Shahed-type attack UAVs.

In total, according to preliminary data, the radio engineering troops of the Air Force of Ukraine detected and tracked 210 enemy air targets - 120 missiles and 90 UAVs.

By type:

- 1 hypersonic ship missile 3M22 "Zircon";

- 8 X-47M2 "Kinzhal" air-to-ground missiles;

- 101 cruise missiles X-101, "Kalibr";

- 1 Iskander-M ballistic missile;

- 4 X-22/X-31P cruise/anti-radar missiles;

- 5 X-59/X-69 guided missiles;

- 90 attack UAVs/drones of unspecified type.

The enemy used:

- 7 Tu-160 and 16 Tu-95MS strategic bombers;

- 2 Tu-22M3 long-range bombers;

- 5 Su-34 fighter-bombers;

- 4 Su-27 fighters;

- 10 MiG-31K fighters;

- 4 cruise missile carriers in the air attack.

Throughout the night, all available air defense forces and means were deployed along the route of the missiles and drones. Aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare assets, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force and Defense Forces were involved.

According to preliminary data, as of 12.00, 144 air targets were shot down - 102 missiles and 42 UAVs).

As a result of active counteraction by the Defense Forces, 41 enemy UAVs were lost in different regions of Ukraine, and two more UAVs flew towards Russia and the temporarily occupied territory.

Air defense was active in almost all regions of Ukraine - Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Volyn and Lviv regions.

[pedropascallme]

Can you write a smut one shot of Toki from Metalocalypse having sex for the first time with a serious girlfriend he loves? Thanks!

AN: Sorry this took so long <3 This is my first time writing for Toki, and despite all the grammatical irregularities he uses I really enjoyed writing this!! I hope you like it, too.

“You ams’so pretty.” Toki mumbled, still half asleep, moving a stray piece of hair out of your face as you stirred. You blinked your eyes open and smiled at him, taking in how beautiful he looked with his hair messy from sleep, his baby blue eyes still hooded and semi-hidden by his eyelids.

“You’re delirious from lack of sleep,” you shifted yourself further towards him, laying your head on his chest and cupping his face in your free hand, “I’m hungover and I need to wash my face.” He smiled down at you and kissed the fingers that had strayed slightly from his cheek and grazed over his lips.

“Nos,” he put on his serious voice, “you ams pretty. And you should stays with Toki in beds all days.” He wrapped both arms around you and kissed the top of your head. You smiled wider into him, musing on his sweet words and broken English. You had learned—fairly quickly—that no matter how many times by how many people Toki was corrected, he would always use the verbiage and grammar he felt was correct. He was proud to have come this far, and you recognized how hard it was for him to have learned English in the first place after growing up so isolated, so you and everybody else he interacted with (save for Skwisgaar) let him speak how he wanted to. Still, you found it humorous, albeit endearing, how he made so many alterations to the language.

“I’ll stay in bed with you.” You sighed, closing your eyes and letting yourself sink against him and the mattress. “You’ll get bored pretty quickly, though.”

“We can finds somethings to dos.” Toki rubbed a thumb over the arm you had draped over his stomach.

“Mm? In bed?” You felt yourself falling back asleep.

“I…hmm…” Toki tried to find the proper phrasing for his intentions. “I wants to have sex withs you.” It came out far less smooth than he had hoped. Your eyes popped open, partially due to the unexpected forwardness of his words, and partially due to the combination of excitement and nerves that began to bubble up. All you could do was stare at him, a shocked grin on your face and your eyes wide. “You don’t wants—”

“No! I mean, yes! I—Toki. Of course I want to have sex with you.” You stumbled over your words.

“We don’t have tos. We can builds a new model airplanes. I just gots a Tu-144!” He sat up slightly, jostling you before you managed to pull him back down, hoisting yourself up to be face-to-face with him.

“Toki, I want to have sex with you.” You scanned his face, looking for signs of…anything. He stared at you before shooting you a shy smile.

“I don’t wants you to feels pressure-reds.”

“You’ve waited this long to ask,” you reassured him, “and I’ve waited this long to answer.”

“You ams not—you amsn’t a groupie, you know.”

“I tried to be.” You joked, thinking back on the day you met Toki, how he had led you to his room after a concert and all the two of you had done was talk all night, sitting criss-cross on the bed that you were now lying in a state of partial undress next to him in. Even then, some number of months ago, you knew there had been a reason that he had always been your favorite Dethklok member. “I know I’m not.”

He seemed to relax slightly at your acknowledgment of the fact that this situation was entirely different to that of a band member fraternizing with a groupie; this had never been a one-off thing. He’d been calling you his girlfriend since a week or two after that first night. And you loved it. You loved him.

He moved to kiss you, moving his body just enough to ensure he was completely underneath you, and you, in turn, straddled him and planted your legs on either side of his body, deepening the kiss. He pulled away suddenly to look up at you.

“I loves you.” He whispered, and you felt the atmosphere in the room change; this was serious. It was all real.

“I love you, too.” You whispered back, leaning down again to capture his lips once more. You both smiled into the kiss, utterly enraptured by one another. Toki was yours, and you were his, and you were so deeply grateful you had managed to get tickets to see the band play live all those months ago.

“What—how does you wants to—?” Toki spoke between heated kisses.

“My—on my back.” He flipped you over, long hair falling in his face when he looked down at you splayed out for him. You laughed, reaching up to move the long strands out of his way and tucking them behind his ear as he had done for you earlier that morning.

“Wow-ee…”

“Toki.”

“Mm?”

“Our clothes.”

“Oh!” He clumsily shed himself of his pajama bottoms while you stretched your torso to make it easier to remove your shirt and underwear. The clothes were strewn somewhere off in a corner of the bedroom, and you refocused your attention on Toki. You felt him, hard, rubbing against your core, and the vague friction it created already had you on edge; you had both waited so long to ensure your first time was comfortable, longed for and not rushed into. At this point you were about 85% sure you could cum from him touching any part of your naked body.

“Can—I wanna taste you.” You reached up for him but he gently captured your wrists in his hands.

“Nots now,” he placed your hands at your side, “Needs to—please, just needs to fucks you.” He was halfway to begging as his cock throbbed against you.

“Yes. Please, Toki, yes.” You gave him the go-ahead. He lined himself up with your admittedly dripping cunt, and you were almost embarrassed by how easily turned on you had become—though the rational part of your brain reminded you that it was a good thing. He pushed his hips into you slowly, giving you time to adjust to the feel and stretch of his cock inside of you. You let out small gasps as he sunk into you, finally bottoming out and staying still. He breathed heavily, and you could barely breathe at all; you felt so full—so complete with him buried inside of you like this. You knew that both of you were plenty experienced in this respect—sex was a natural part of life for him as a major celebrity, and you had experienced the occasional dry spell, but Toki was hardly your first. You also knew it was different now, with each other: this was genuine, full of love and mutual respect.

“Move, Toki. You can move, please.” You didn’t have to tell him twice; he slowly brought himself back, nearly pulling his cock out of you entirely, before pushing himself back in. You pulled him down, now chest-to-chest and moaning in each other’s ears. He sped up, relishing in the way your pussy swallowed him with each thrust of his hips. You could only make pathetic noises, mostly gibberish that sounded almost like his name before you managed to regain an inkling of composure to say it properly. You reached a hand down to rub against your clit, and Toki pushed it away to replace your fingers with his.

“So goods.” He moaned, screwing his eyes shut as he began to move at an even faster pace. You felt the knot in your stomach slowly tighten, before it completely came undone and you were cumming underneath him, all over his cock.

“I love you, Toki.” You were whisper-shouting, lost somewhere in the bliss he had created for you. “I love you so much.”

“I loves you so much,” he panted, thrusts getting sloppy, “wants to shows you all the times how much I loves you.”

“Show me.” You whispered, looking up at him beneath your lashes and bringing your hands to wrap around his neck. He pulled out, grinding himself against your lower stomach before finishing across your stomach and chest with a loud groan. He collapsed on top of you, and the two of you remained, sweaty and sticky and breathless in bed, for a while, whispering sweet nothings to each other and both tracing shapes on the other’s skin.

“I knows I said I wants tos stay in beds all days,” Toki spoke up, “but this ams sticky.” He motioned to his spend, which now coated both of you from the chest down.

“Shower with me.” You mumbled, twirling your fingers in his hair and massaging his scalp with your fingertips. He grinned, sitting up and arranging you in his arms bridal style to carry you to the bathroom.

“I loves you.” Picking you up, he whispered the words into the top of your head.

“I love you, too.”

[pedal-broad]

TU-144 gf be like lemme droop the snoot into that pussy babe

[runwayrunway]

This is unfortunately true. Like I said. Downright monstrosity.

I just find the naming pattern of Tupolev planes really funny.

Tu-134: Oh it's kind of like a DC-9

Tu-144: SOVIET CONCORDE. FIRST SUPERSONIC AIRLINER. FASTEST AIRLINER EVER TO FLY. DOWNRIGHT MONSTROSITY.

Tu-154: Oh it's kind of like a 727