An excellent airplane (IMHO), and one of the most attractive of the WW 2 fighters, not least because it's small, as fighters go. It has some similarities in design/appearance to the Spitfire.

@leneanderthalien

2 жыл бұрын

had similar mission as the Spitfire or the Dewoitine D520: small, agile short range fighter

Brings back so many memories of the Gaming Zone Fighterace days, I loved the YAK3

One of the sexiest airplanes every made in Russia. It's a real looker.

Very very nice. Sleek & fast.

Nice!!!

Allison V1710 engine equipped? - Because the original Klimov M-105 (107) was left rotated.

@pmg757

Жыл бұрын

Correct.

Lovely 👍🏼 ✨ ✨

Nice 👍

Almost looks like a hybrid of the Spitfire and P51 Mustang, nice aircraft though

@leneanderthalien

2 жыл бұрын

a P51 is much bigger and heawyer and had a very long range= not realy similar...

@KingCobra66UK

2 жыл бұрын

@@leneanderthalien yes I am aware the P51D Mustang is a bigger heavier aircraft. I was merely pointing out it has certain similarities to the Spitfire and Mustang, such as a almost elliptical wing like the Spitfire, also it has a under fuselage air intake for the radiator like a Mustang.

A replica? With Allison engine I presume. There used to be one in SA, along with a Sea Fury. Lovely aircraft!

@asdrubale2

Жыл бұрын

I think yes. Because the original Klimov M-105 (107) was left rotated.

@danielcamacho1913

4 ай бұрын

No, not a replica. If you listen to the announcer he (mostly) explains it. Yakovlev built this plane in the 1990s, with the original jigs. I thought he left out some important stuff… When the USSR broke up and, and switched to a market economy, all the “design bureaus” like Yakovlev and MiG became businesses. They owned whatever factories had been building their designs, and had to figure out how to make money. Someone at Yakovlev was checking inventory and realized they still had all the production equipment to make WW2 Yak-3 fighters. So, they built a few dozen Yak-3s and I think the asking price was about $250,000 each. A fraction of what you’d pay for a surviving Mustang or Corsair. They used Allison engines because, as I understand it, the Russians didn’t think their engines were that reliable, brand-new. And now they were choosing between engines >50 years old. Heck yeah, they installed an Allison. 😁

Avvesome!

Yakovlev used sport plane to create yak 3..Yak 1 was 80% wood..to heavy..Engine wasn't that strong to achieve such speed ..in1941..war speed up production ..All watercooled motors was goin to Yakovlev planes..Lavochkin what was compared ws Yakovlev go aircooled engine to his LA5..good plane to..

Good ol' Allison engines, abundant enough and sturdy. The Russian V-12s were significantly larger but had nowhere near the TBO ratings of the Allison or the Merlin. History of how this airplane was reproduced is quite unique.

@johnstirling6597

2 жыл бұрын

I thought they had a Klimov engine?

@whalesong999

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnstirling6597 I don't know of any of the Russian engines that survive to power any restored Russian warbirds. From what I've read they were very quick to deteriorate in service, very low time before overhauls. Drawings I've seen of them suggest they would have vibrated heavily, shook themselves apart from imbalance.

@johnstirling6597

2 жыл бұрын

@@whalesong999 sounds typical of the entire Russian approach to just about everything, design and build fast, don't worry about too much maintenance because its only expected to last three months.

@FiveCentsPlease

Жыл бұрын

@@whalesong999 This unfinished Yak-1 project is the only example with a Russian Klimov V12 that is flight certified. The project was for sale. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jK6Xo8Wcfq-zldo.html Some Russian guys dug a Mikulin AM-38 out of the mud and got it running (barely running.) And I think a group in France was restoring an IL-10 with plans to fly it with a Mikulin engine when finished.

Little fast on the landing!

Almost looks identical to a Spitfires front end and even sounds very similar to a Merlin.

@leneanderthalien

2 жыл бұрын

its here not the original engine who was the Klimov 105, a evolution from the Hispano Suiza Y12, but none Klimov is awailable today and rebuilt a original engine will be extremly expansive...

@fourfortyroadrunner6701

2 жыл бұрын

V12, Schme12. Merlin, Schmerlin. Most V12's sound the same, except off the wall "flat crank" (180 crank)

@patrickporter6536

2 жыл бұрын

It's a v12....

@thethirdman225

Жыл бұрын

Looks nothing like a spitfire.

@thethirdman225

Жыл бұрын

@@fourfortyroadrunner6701 You can’t make a V12 with a flat plane crack. That can only be done with four or eight cylinders (and I suppose, theoretically, 16). Otherwise I agree with what you’re saying.

That is a great airplane. To bad it is in the shadow of spitfires and messersmits.😈

期待はスピットファイア、脚部がホーカータイフーン、ラジエターはエアコブラのを下につけて ソビエトの空と海のは三流、四流かな

Пять звёзд на боку - это за сбитых фрицев?

@danielcamacho1913

4 ай бұрын

Yes. It was probably painted to copy the markings of a historically significant pilot.

WW2 Russian copy of Spitfire ?

@zaniwoob

2 жыл бұрын

not really

@Fulcrum205

10 ай бұрын

Not really. It was developed from the Yak-1 which was started in 1939. If anything, it probably owes some inspiration to the Heinkel He-100 as the German and Russian aviation industries had some fairly close ties during the 1930s. It may just be a case of form following function. A V-12 powered fighter is going to look like most of the other V-12 fighters unless you do something weird like the put the engine in the back.

@danielcamacho1913

4 ай бұрын

Russians didn’t copy things back then, and observant airplane nerds can see the different wing shape, the bubble canopy, and the angle of the rudder hinge. We also know the wartime version of this plane had a 20mm cannon sticking through the propeller hub. Russian engines were designed to accommodate that, British and American engines were not.