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What is the name of the airplane visible in the picture?

Tupolev Tu-144
Concorde
Boeing 707
De Havilland Comet
The Tupolev Tu-144 is a retired jet airliner and commercial supersonic transport aircraft (SST). The prototype first flew on 31 December 1968 near Moscow, two months before the first flight of the Concorde. The Tu-144 first went supersonic on 5 June 1969, and on 26 May 1970 became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
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