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RUSSIA
(TRAINER)
 1943
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The Yakovlev Yak-18 (Russian: Як-18, also transcribed as Jak-18, NATO reporting name Max) was a Soviet tandem two-seat military primary trainer aircraft. Originally powered by one 119 kW (160 hp) Shvetsov M-11FR-1 radial piston engine, it entered service in 1946. It is also produced in China as the Nanchang CJ-5.

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RUSSIA
 1969
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The Yak18PS development with the tail wheel, it was a triumph at the 1970 World Championship in UK. Produced in small series of six at the Arseniev plant, there is only one aircraft remaining to date. In contrast with the forthcoming. Yak-50, the "PS" history was not connected with any structural design flaws, thanks in particular to a lighter fabric-covered wing.

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RUSSIA
(WARBIRD)
 1947
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The Yakovlev Yak-19 was a prototype Soviet fighter aircraft built in 1947. It was the first Yakovlev jet fighter, and the first OKB aircraft designed from the onset to have an all-metal stressed skin, and a hydraulic system. The Yak-19 was the second Soviet aircraft to use an afterburning turbojet, the Klimov RD-10F, and the last Yakovlev Aircraft to use a version of the German Jumo 004-derived RD-10 jet engine. Only two examples were built.
USAF /DoD reporting name - "Type 7"[

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RUSSIA
(WARBIRD)
 1951
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The Yakovlev Yak-25 (NATO designation Flashlight-A / Mandrake) was a swept wing, turbojet-powered interceptor aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Soviet Union.
The Yak-25 originated from a need for long-range interceptors to protect the USSR's northern and eastern territory. The specification for a two-seat, twin-engine jet fighter and a related reconnaissance aircraft was issued by Stalin on 6 August 1951. The aircraft was to use the new Mikulin AM-5 turbojet. The first prototype, the Yak-120, flew on 19 June 1952.

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RUSSIA
(WARBIRD)
 1966
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The Yakovlev Yak-40 (NATO reporting name: Codling) is a small, three-engined airliner that is often called the first regional jet transport aircraft. It was introduced in September 1968 with Aeroflot.

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RUSSIA
 1976
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The Yak-52, like most Soviet military aircraft, was designed to operate in rugged environments with minimal maintenance. One of its key features, and a radical departure from most western aircraft, is its extensive pneumatic system. Engine starting, landing gear, flaps, braking and steering are all pneumatically actuated. Spherical storage bottles for air, replenished by an engine driven compressor, are situated behind the rear cockpit and contents displayed on the instrument panels. The operating pressure is between 10 and 50 bars (145 and 725 psi) and an emergency circuit is reserved for lowering the undercarriage if the normal supply is exhausted or the compressor fails. Additionally both main and reserve bottles can be charged from a port on the ground with compressed air, usually from a Scuba type air bottle. The steering/braking arrangement, especially, takes some adjustment for flyers accustomed to hydraulics, because the plane uses differential braking controlled by rudder pedals and a hand operated lever on the control stick.  The tricycle landing gear is retractable, but it remains partially-exposed in the retracted position, affording both a useful level of drag in down manoeuvres and a measure of protection should the plane be forced to land "wheels up."
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RUSSIA
 1927
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AIR-1 was finished on May 1, 1927 and performed its maiden flight on May 12 with Yu.I.Piontkovsky at controls. It was a complete success. All test requirements were fulfilled within following two weeks, without serious rebuilds. Aircraft was approved for trial flight Moscow-Kharkov-Sevastopol-Moscow. It was piloted by Yu.I.Piontkovsky, A.S.Yakovlev participated as a passenger. They took off early on June 12, 1927 from Moscow. After landing and refueling in Kharkov they touched down in Sevastopol in the evening of the same day.

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An improved version, the AIR-2, introduced interchangeable floats,

   

 AIR-3 was a monoplane version with braced parasol wing.

 
   

Further development with extra fuel tankage resulted in the AIR-8 , military liaison variant was known as the AIR-8.

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       
       
       
       
   
       
       
       
       
       

RUSSIA
 1952
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The Yak-25 originated from a need for long-range interceptors to protect the USSR's northern and eastern territory. The specification for a two-seat, twin-engine jet fighter and a related reconnaissance aircraft was issued by Stalin on 6 August 1951. The aircraft was to use the new Mikulin AM-5 turbojet. The first prototype, the Yak-120, flew on 19 June 1952. 

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RUSSIA
 1971
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The first drawings showed a supersonic aircraft strongly influenced by Hawker P.1154 in study in the United Kingdom but with two R27-300 engines. Supersonic performances would have implied many difficulties of development, and it was decided to initially develop a relatively simple aircraft limited to Mach 0.95. Although the Yak-38 and Yak-38M were developed from the land-based Yakovlev Yak-36, the aircraft had almost nothing in common.

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RUSSIA
 1976
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The Yakovlev Yak-52 (Як-52) is a Soviet primary trainer aircraft which first flew in 1976. It is still being produced in Romania by Aerostat, which gained manufacturing rights under agreement within the now defunct COMECON socialist trade organisation. The Yak-52 was designed originally as an aerobatic trainer for students in the Soviet DOSAAF training organisation, which trained both civilian sport pilots and military pilots.

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RUSSIA
 1981
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The design was given to Slava Kondratiev, then the leading light aircraft designer in Russia and the result was the Yak-55.  The aircraft has a thick totally symmetrical wing, which gives great strength. The aircraft is otherwise of conventional monocoque all- metal construction. The prototype flew in May 1981 and was shown to the West in 1982. However, the Russian Team wasn’t equipped with ‘55s until 1984, when it immediately won the World Aerobatic Championship.

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JAPAN
WARBIRD
 1943
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The "Glen" was used for several Japanese reconnaissance missions during the Pacific War. It also has the distinction of being the only aircraft to drop bombs on the United States mainland during World War II, in an incident known as The Lookout Air Raid. On 9 September 1942 , Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita, a pilot in the Japanese Imperial Navy, and his crew man, Petty Officer Shoji Okuda, surfaced in I-25 off the coast of Oregon near Brookings. His tiny seaplane had folding wings and was transported in a small hangar attached to the deck of the submarine. The bombs - 76 kg (168 lb) incendiaries intended to cause forest fires - caused no injuries or real damage

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JAPAN
 WARBIRD
 1933
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   The most important of the Yokosuka-designed trainers, was the Yokosuka K5Y1, first flown during December 1933. Adopted in January 1934 as the Navy Type 93 Intermediate Trainer, it was built to a total of 5,770 by the end of the Pacific war, being allocated the Allied codename 'Willow'. Built in three versions, with float and wheel landing gear, the 11.00m span K5Y1 with a 254kW Hitachi Amakaze radial engine had a maximum speed of 212km/h.

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JAPAN
 WARBIRD
 1943
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The P1Y was designed by the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal to Navy specifications calling for speed matching the Zero, range matching the G4M, a 907 kg (2,000 lb) bombload, and the ability to dive-bomb as well as carry torpedoes. As a result, the construction suffered from excess complexity, difficulty of manufacture, and poor serviceability. Problems with the Nakajima Homare engine led to its replacement by the Mitsubishi Kasei.

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