@segajin there are no La 5s or 7s left. The only remaining Russian fighters are yaks and i16. This is Yak 3 but the inline liquid cooled engine was removed in order for a more powerful radial engine to be mounted. That is probably why you think its a Lavochkin but it is not
Avioane Craiova SA (the sw romanian company responsable for the this baby Yak-3U R2000) has just signed a contract with Eastern Fighters GmbH from Zurich (US market) for 2 Yak-11 "Moose". They did 6 of these 3's in 90's for a french company (10 was the innitial number), so they still have spare parts, according to the director Radu Costaşuc.
Semiquoted from today local-Craiova city "South Gazzette" newspaper.
So this is a new-build replica Yak with a P&W engine installed? An R-2800? It looks good, anyway. I love the Yak-3....most late Soviet fighters, actually. So difficult to fly, but friggin' monsters in the right hands...made Bf 109 and Fw 190 pilots cry for momma! Funny how it was all about inlines for performance at the start of WWII, but by the end, radials were THE way to go in fighter design. The Fw 190 may not have been The Ultimate, but Bearcat, Fury, Tempest, La-7, etc all used it's ideas.
@dilbert0815 What about the P-51? I was pointing out that early in the war, V-12 powered planes were considered "the best", but at the end, radial-powered planes were the "wave of the future". I noticed that the Fw 190 was first to use a close-cowled engine, slot-type cowl-flaps, a large spinner, and ejector-stubs, and the later radial fighters had the same things. And not ALL V-12's were water-cooled. The Isotta-Fraschini Delta, the Gypsy Twelve, and Argus 410 are all air-cooled V-12's. =)
Як-3У: переделанный самолет со звездообразным двигателем АШ-82ФН и двумя пушками Б-20; на испытаниях, начавшихся 12 мая 1945г., достигал максимальной скорости 710 км/час (441 миль/час) на высоте 6100 м (20015 футов).
What I meant was like it's not the Yak 3 with the V-12 engine like the ones they used in WWII. As far as I know the Yak 3U was never in production. This must be either a very rare aircraft or a reproduction of some sort.
No, those intakes are specific to the Yak fighters and pretty recognizable. La-7 had rectangular sort of intakes a little further outboard from the wing root. So unless they swapped out the La- wings for Yak wings.. lol
Also, the landing gear bay doors are the wrong shape. The doors on the La-7 don't have the V-shaped kink in them. Also, I believe the La- pitot tube was mounted underneath the right-hand wing, not on the leading edge of the left-hand wing.
From what I've read, the standard V-12 Yak engines were unreliable, so at least some were tested with the La-5 engines. I don't believe they ever entered production though.
The Yak-11 trainer was built on the Yak-3 airframe, but used an engine similar to the one in the La-5. Thats possibly where they got the parts from.
All is correct, it Yak3 or Yak9, only the motor not native, ASH82, same as on La5 and on La7. Yakovlev during war it did not apply, after war as experiment can be
Yak built a prototype fighter near the end of the war called a Yak 3U-ASH82. Essentially a radial powered version of thier Klimov powered (V12) Yak 3. They then modified after the war,the yak 3 (V12)into a 2 seat low horsepower radial advanced trainer variant. SteadFast, that you see in this video is mostly built from Yak 11 plans but is modified to air race. It was built entirely new in 2005 in a Romanian factory.
jaakov13 is right - this started out as a Yak-11 (or a license built Czech LET C-11), which is a postwar trainer similar to the US AT-5/SNJ in concept. This one has a lot of mods to clean the airframe up + a much larger American radial engine (R-2000) and 3 blade prop in place of the original ASh-21 9 cyl & 2 blade. All variants of the Yak 3 used inline V-12 engines..
This is not an La-5, no La-5s are airworthy as of now, only and La-9, and it isn't in the U.S. This is a Yak-3 that was MODIFIED with an r-2800, and it was recently manufactured by Russia for civilian use here.
guys its a yak 3u new production. it was built, shipped and completed here in the U.S. by Eddie Andreini... Will Whiteside purchased it after the completion as far as I remember. The engine is an R-2000. the plane is actually for sale :(
Ignore the radial engine - look at the tail plane and wings its pure yak I tell's ya'. The lavochkin had very distinctive features not present here ;) i.e. low gentle sloping fin not the continous upward curve seen here.
Lavochkin
shuljup 1 month ago
its amazing that the engine can stay cool. looks as if so little cooling air can get to the engine'
LancairPropJet 3 months ago
This plane can be named somehow, but it not the Yak-3, the Correct name of this plane RENO....
Vanyaaynav 3 months ago
That's LA-7, Yak-3 is shorter.
Andrey222ful 4 months ago
LA-5!!!
AVAKIJ 4 months ago
She looks like La-5 to me !
russiaviation 4 months ago
this is not yak3 this is la-5 or 7
segajin 10 months ago
@segajin there are no La 5s or 7s left. The only remaining Russian fighters are yaks and i16. This is Yak 3 but the inline liquid cooled engine was removed in order for a more powerful radial engine to be mounted. That is probably why you think its a Lavochkin but it is not
yakovlev3a 10 months ago
@yakovlev3a That's sad, really. I rather liked those Lavochkins. Any word on any that might be under restoration?
AmericanAviator 5 months ago
@yakovlev3a It not ЯК-3 and not Lavochkin-it a hybrid.
Vanyaaynav 3 months ago
this is not yak3 this is la-5 or 7
segajin 10 months ago
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Avioane Craiova SA (the sw romanian company responsable for the this baby Yak-3U R2000) has just signed a contract with Eastern Fighters GmbH from Zurich (US market) for 2 Yak-11 "Moose". They did 6 of these 3's in 90's for a french company (10 was the innitial number), so they still have spare parts, according to the director Radu Costaşuc.
Semiquoted from today local-Craiova city "South Gazzette" newspaper.
RomaniaTricolor 11 months ago
NOOO! It's a LA-7!!!
Minchanin 1 year ago
that looks more like a la 5/la7 then a yak
Mattebubben 1 year ago
saund lol
grasess 1 year ago
So this is a new-build replica Yak with a P&W engine installed? An R-2800? It looks good, anyway. I love the Yak-3....most late Soviet fighters, actually. So difficult to fly, but friggin' monsters in the right hands...made Bf 109 and Fw 190 pilots cry for momma! Funny how it was all about inlines for performance at the start of WWII, but by the end, radials were THE way to go in fighter design. The Fw 190 may not have been The Ultimate, but Bearcat, Fury, Tempest, La-7, etc all used it's ideas.
justforever96 1 year ago
@justforever96
You forget the Mustang P51.
Still surperior to most and was a (british) V12.
One of dealiest of the russians was the Yak9 also V12.
An air cooled radial ist more robust as it survies a bullet or two.
A water cooled engine (all V12 are) is dead after the first bullet.
dilbert0815 1 year ago
@dilbert0815 What about the P-51? I was pointing out that early in the war, V-12 powered planes were considered "the best", but at the end, radial-powered planes were the "wave of the future". I noticed that the Fw 190 was first to use a close-cowled engine, slot-type cowl-flaps, a large spinner, and ejector-stubs, and the later radial fighters had the same things. And not ALL V-12's were water-cooled. The Isotta-Fraschini Delta, the Gypsy Twelve, and Argus 410 are all air-cooled V-12's. =)
justforever96 1 year ago
this looks more like a La5 or la7 then a yak3...
Mattebubben 1 year ago
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Treetop64 1 year ago
Як-3У: переделанный самолет со звездообразным двигателем АШ-82ФН и двумя пушками Б-20; на испытаниях, начавшихся 12 мая 1945г., достигал максимальной скорости 710 км/час (441 миль/час) на высоте 6100 м (20015 футов).
101Klipper 1 year ago
Lions Tigers and Bears OH my!
Brough1111 2 years ago 2
It's just a new-production Yak with a P&W up front.....
blownglasslide 2 years ago
Looks like a Yak 3U or Yak 11 maybe. Not really the classic Yak 3
jabberwock11 2 years ago 4
its a normal 3u but youre right the nose looks a little bit too long
P214Stearman 2 years ago
What I meant was like it's not the Yak 3 with the V-12 engine like the ones they used in WWII. As far as I know the Yak 3U was never in production. This must be either a very rare aircraft or a reproduction of some sort.
jabberwock11 2 years ago
It isn't Yak-3. It's the Lavochkin La-7. ;)
kakadz89 2 years ago
La-7 doesn't have circular intakes in the wing roots.
No1118117 2 years ago
But that's tuned La-7... And maybe in this version he have this intakes. ;)
kakadz89 2 years ago
No, those intakes are specific to the Yak fighters and pretty recognizable. La-7 had rectangular sort of intakes a little further outboard from the wing root. So unless they swapped out the La- wings for Yak wings.. lol
Also, the landing gear bay doors are the wrong shape. The doors on the La-7 don't have the V-shaped kink in them. Also, I believe the La- pitot tube was mounted underneath the right-hand wing, not on the leading edge of the left-hand wing.
Definitely Yak wings lol.
No1118117 2 years ago
Oh... Sorry, my mistake... So it looks like Lavotchkin fixed with Yak. :) Maybe in this way the construction is better? :)
kakadz89 2 years ago
From what I've read, the standard V-12 Yak engines were unreliable, so at least some were tested with the La-5 engines. I don't believe they ever entered production though.
The Yak-11 trainer was built on the Yak-3 airframe, but used an engine similar to the one in the La-5. Thats possibly where they got the parts from.
No1118117 2 years ago
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kakadz89 2 years ago
It's very possible. :)
kakadz89 2 years ago
Its a YAK-11. . .
existentialvoid 2 years ago
wow that yak3 looks like Lavochkin LA-7 by its nose
yakovlev3a 2 years ago
That is a YAK 3!!!!!!!!!!
wearsterdzfughijk 2 years ago
That is NOT Yak-3. Its either La-5FN or LA-7 (with modified intake).
looxgood 3 years ago
All is correct, it Yak3 or Yak9, only the motor not native, ASH82, same as on La5 and on La7. Yakovlev during war it did not apply, after war as experiment can be
1Sy4ka1 2 years ago
La-5F or La5-FN, At La7 a radiator from below.
bezume 2 years ago
OK, the way it was explained to me is as follows:
Yak built a prototype fighter near the end of the war called a Yak 3U-ASH82. Essentially a radial powered version of thier Klimov powered (V12) Yak 3. They then modified after the war,the yak 3 (V12)into a 2 seat low horsepower radial advanced trainer variant. SteadFast, that you see in this video is mostly built from Yak 11 plans but is modified to air race. It was built entirely new in 2005 in a Romanian factory.
wwhiteside 3 years ago
jaakov13 is right - this started out as a Yak-11 (or a license built Czech LET C-11), which is a postwar trainer similar to the US AT-5/SNJ in concept. This one has a lot of mods to clean the airframe up + a much larger American radial engine (R-2000) and 3 blade prop in place of the original ASh-21 9 cyl & 2 blade. All variants of the Yak 3 used inline V-12 engines..
hiergehts 3 years ago
Well there are Yak-3's that are radial powered.
A LA-5 doesn't look like this if you look at the details of the plane.......
RiskyR 3 years ago
Steadfast is a La-5 it's not a yak3, a yak3 does not use a radial its water cooled an look's nothing like that
111841984 3 years ago
This is not an La-5, no La-5s are airworthy as of now, only and La-9, and it isn't in the U.S. This is a Yak-3 that was MODIFIED with an r-2800, and it was recently manufactured by Russia for civilian use here.
erad5 3 years ago
Read the history. There were m-82 powered yaks
DarklightRebel 3 years ago
It's a god damn Yak-3 with an R-2000...not 2800 as other's state. It's the same radial out of a Caribou or DC-4....and sounds nothing like a 2800.
NOT a La-7,9 or anything like that....
i think they call them Yak-3U/2000 or some whacky new build designation like that.
Yak-3 ok? Good.
Listen people...liten to the awesome noise it makes in flight.
juzzi07 3 years ago
How much are they asking for it?
masturbate2much 4 years ago
LOve the sound the engine make while it's starting
masturbate2much 4 years ago
guys its a yak 3u new production. it was built, shipped and completed here in the U.S. by Eddie Andreini... Will Whiteside purchased it after the completion as far as I remember. The engine is an R-2000. the plane is actually for sale :(
HellaJDM 4 years ago
I'd say that's an Yak-11 or Avia C-11 (licensed Yaks built in Czech Republic)
jaakov13 4 years ago
There is currently one airworthy Lavochikin LA-9 based in Auckland New Zealand. It is one awesome aeroplane
Damo152 4 years ago
Yep that is Lavochkin La-7
abaj006 4 years ago
wrong, that is a new production yak-3ur with an pratt and whitney r-2000. there are no flyable lavochkins to my knowledge
sierra381 4 years ago
fine! lets call it a Yak then...
.... maybe that explains why the engine started so easily...
Looks like Lavochkin flies like a Lavochkin... but its made by Yakolov...
abaj006 4 years ago
Ignore the radial engine - look at the tail plane and wings its pure yak I tell's ya'. The lavochkin had very distinctive features not present here ;) i.e. low gentle sloping fin not the continous upward curve seen here.
SmiertSpionem 3 years ago
To jest LA 7 a nie yak 3 / It's LA 7 not yak 3
driver134 4 years ago