[mavyalex]

Hello,

Could anybody help me to identify this plane I saw on a local airport in Southern France?

It is owned by a wealthy individual.

It looks like a Russian training aircraft but I can't find its name (Yak?)



Thank you.

[Bearkiller72]

Easy: Yak-52. Even says so beneath the windscreen. (Як-52 in cyrillic = Yak-52 in roman) :wink:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-52

[caldrail]

More specifically, it's a Yak-52TD, a modification of the original which had tricycle undercarriage, and it isn't a WW2 aeroplane at all.

[FlyingBoxHead]

Made in the 70s bro,sry not WWII.

[caldrail]

The TD was introduced in the 90's as a western modification to the original. It had quite a good write up in Pilot magazine as I remember. The problem with such aircraft is that the CAA never liked them. A lot of people ran them (and Yak-18 variants too) on registrations of convenience, such as Lithuania, but they tightened up on rules over that.

[RadPig94]

at first it reminded me of SNJ-3/5 Texan
damn those non-subtle russians taking ideas from us

[WhoDatNotSayin]

at first it reminded me of SNJ-3/5 Texan
damn those non-subtle russians taking ideas from us

I'd say the Yak 52 has about as much resemblance to a SNJ/Texan as the P-51 has to a Bf-109. Similar technology leads to similar designs, though I'd suggest the Yak has more of a fighter pedigree than the SNJ. Though the Soviet Union was willing enough to copy US designs in the late 1940s, they had earlier arguably even been ahead in terms of understanding the requirements for modern fighters.

[RadPig94]

Similar technology leads to similar designs,

hmm, i guess that's right, such as F-14 and F-15 and F-22 have almost similar designs, but then again, isn't that from the same companies?

btw, (being off topic here :p ) AK-47 is not an original design it's a copy of an MP-43 those sneaky Russians :mrgreen:

though then again the "similar designs" can be thought, such as Mauser,Ruger, and Luger. but the two guns, AK and MP, are almost congruent

....... anyways... carry on

[Guest]

F-22 and F-35 Have very similiar designs.

[caldrail]

btw, (being off topic here :p ) AK-47 is not an original design it's a copy of an MP-43 those sneaky Russians :mrgreen:

No. The Russians adopted the concept of a lower power cartridge having encountered the German Kurz round that the Stg44 used, the standard cartridges of combatant nations dating to designs c.1900 for use in different combat conditions.

The close in firefights of world war two did not require the range of full power ammunition, and since most firefights were taking place at three hundred metres or less, smaller ammunition meant more ammunition.

Kalashnikov began working on his design in 1944 and whilst he homed in on a similar concept, the designs are not actually related.

Incidentially the MP43/Stg44 is still in use in Africa, albeit in small numbers. The AK is used everywhere.

[RadPig94]

Incidentially the MP43/Stg44 is still in use in Africa, albeit in small numbers. The AK is used everywhere.

still i wouldn't mind owning an MP-43 too