Yak 9: How low can you go?

[Unregistered]

Re: Yak 9: How low can you go?

According to someone I know who witnessed this event, who also knows the pilot, it took an 8+ g snatch to avoid hitting the ground. You can see this hard pull on the video. VERY lucky.

[Unregistered]

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The pilot was Dan McCue (sp?) and the location was Andrews AFB, last weekend I believe.

[First time Juke]

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I wonder how close the high-speed-stall was to occur.

Was the soviet plane Yak-3 or Yak-9 ..Yak-3 was powered by Allison and built in large number to abroad. Smaller wing than in a niner.

[matt]

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wrong juke, the yak-3 was built with a klimov engine and only flew in france and russia if i remember right, it was the first high speed version of the yak prop fighters with little armor or armament. allisons weren't installed in yaks until the early '90's if i remember right.

the yak-9 on the other hand was sold to a myriad of eastern bloc countries.

[First time Juke]

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That's what I mean..yak-3s were rebuilt in the original Yakolev plants to be sold abroad in the nineties..so it cannot be a Yak-9.
Well it ( Yak-3 ) was a nimble little fighter, but introduced to the front later than Yak-9 which was a wooden plane and had 3 feet more span.
Proto of a Yak-3 flew 745 km/h being the fastest piston plane during WWII in the former Soviet Union. Am I correct Matt ?

The french Normandie Niemen regiment flew'em in Russia I think.

FAF never faced the Yak-3 fighters since Finland and Soviets made a peace treaty in the fall -44. There was plenty of yak-9 and la-5 fighters ( not to forget the Il-2s ) + p39s with those 38 mm oldsmobile cannons against our ageing and rare G-6s. ( Sorry this was off the topic ).

I have always liked the Yak-3 sporty looks.

[Unregistered]

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The new build aircraft produced by Yakovlev in the nineties included both the -3 and the -9. They are identified as Yak-3UA and Yak-9UM respectively and are both of all metal construction despite the fact that the -9 had a wood wing originally. The one in this video appears to my eye to be a Yak-3 judging by the cockpit location but I could be wrong. I do not think that any of the new build aircraft used any original components but are indeed entirely "new build".

[Eric]

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Reminds me of the Thunderchiken who dug a hole in the ground a day after the last performance at Reno 03. Except that one turned out a bit different!

[First time Juke]

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Yep !

I have seen those 2 videos and that towerphoto of it. Tough luck.

Well FAF Mig-21 bis pilot Ari Piippo augered in at Rammstein airshow some 10+ years ago in same manner...sadly he did not have an ejector seat. He was flying an Allison turboprop powered REDIGO advanced trainer. 5 more meters altitude and he may have made it.

I once sat into his Mig on one airshow in the 70ies..he was an excellent pilot.

An other outstanding pilot lieutenant colonel Janhunen ( and an aviation engineer ) was killed in previous test flight program of the earlier finnish turgoprop design Vinha...overpowered Vinka trainer. It went into an unrecoverable spin ( bore through the ice on a remote lake )..they had to rethink the concept and then Redigo was born ( totally new aircraft with retracts and longer fuse and very fast ). Janhunen's son is a squadron leader today ( if my memory serves me right ).

[First time Juke]

Re: Yak 9: How low can you go?

The new build aircraft produced by Yakovlev in the nineties included both the -3 and the -9. They are identified as Yak-3UA and Yak-9UM respectively and are both of all metal construction despite the fact that the -9 had a wood wing originally. The one in this video appears to my eye to be a Yak-3 judging by the cockpit location but I could be wrong. I do not think that any of the new build aircraft used any original components but are indeed entirely "new build".

I stand corrected.

[First time Juke]

Re: Yak 9: How low can you go?

Yep !

I have seen those 2 videos and that towerphoto of it. Tough luck.

Well FAF Mig-21 bis pilot Ari Piippo augered in at Rammstein airshow some 10+ years ago in same manner...sadly he did not have an ejector seat. He was flying an Allison turboprop powered REDIGO advanced trainer. 5 more meters altitude and he may have made it.

I once sat into his Mig on one airshow in the 70ies..he was an excellent pilot.

An other outstanding pilot lieutenant colonel Janhunen ( and an aviation engineer ) was killed in previous test flight program of the earlier finnish turgoprop design Vinha...overpowered Vinka trainer. It went into an unrecoverable spin ( bore through the ice on a remote lake )..they had to rethink the concept and then Redigo was born ( totally new aircraft with retracts and longer fuse and very fast ). Janhunen's son is a squadron leader today ( if my memory serves me right ).

Here are the pic of those trainers I mentioned. Valmet Vinka and Redigo ( below Vinka ).

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