Name this plane.
 

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/7193/frontsfq.jpg

What plane is this? It is Russian but I haven't a clue as to what it is.

thats what it looks like to me

I'd certainly guess it's a Tupovlev something, and yeah it does look like a Tu 144.

I'd concur. Can't see anything else that looks like it has an engine config like that.

Best tail shot I could find of the plane:
http://beano.de/tupolev/262.jpg

http://www.aviapedia.com/files/civil..._landing-1.jpg
http://davidszondy.com/future/Flight/tu-144ll-01.jpg

I've been inside that very plane at the Technikmuseum Sinsheim :D The plane is pretty cool. You can actually 'walk uphill' into the cockpit.

And yes, it's definitely a Tu-144 in the OP.

It is a Piper Cub:O:

looks like a Concorde ripoff to me. lol

That's why it's also known as the Concordsky :DL

Perhaps, but it flew before the Concord.

Crashed too...

Interesting to compare the designs.

Similar aerodynamic requirements, I suppose.

There was indeed some espionage on the part of the Russians, but in general it's overblown. The British found out about the spying very quickly and put a stop to it, but not before they'd had some fun with their Russian counterparts. They drew up some fake designs and left them where they knew the Russians would find them. The result was some poor Russian engineers pulling their hair out because their "top secret British tire compounds" kept coming out as jelly!

Ironically, the crash that XabbaRus mentioned may have been caused by French espionage against the Russians. The French set up a photo recon plane to take pictures of the Tu-144 during its Paris Air Show routine to get some in-flight photos, and they didn't tell the Russian crew about it. Some people suspect that the Russian pilots were startled when they saw the French plane and took evasive action, which caused them to lose control and crash.