Flying the Yak-42

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 Flying the Yak-42 was fun Paul, a guy from England, who I recently talked to with regard to flying Yak-42 asked a question:

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Yak-42 medium transport jet. Made in the USSR

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Arsenyi Kolosov, an ‘Honored Test Pilot’ of the USSR on the Yak-42’s flight deck Yak-42 was a remarkable plane made in the USSR.  I remember the time when it appeared on the regular service, being operated by a few regional detachments of the former - the ‘Soviet Aeroflot’. To aviation community in the West Aeroflot was (and, probably, some think it still is.. but it is not any more) known as the ‘largest airline’ in the world. In some sense it was true. Read the rest of this entry »

Yak-1’s engine start up

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At last I loaded up a video which I took in last November during a visit to the Springbank airport. Butch Foster demonstrated then a start and the run of engine on their Yak-1. I remember I hardly reached a spot in the hangar where he worked, as he asked me: “Wanna hear some noise?” Read the rest of this entry »

Yak-1 in Calgary-III. Engine Start.

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*HERE is a report from a previous visit to Springbank

Got a chance to see Butch and Yak today.

Polkovnik Fosterov’s happy face in the Yak’s cockpit :)

However, there’s another practical reason for a trip to Springbank - my medical was due, so I elected to go to the Doctor Adams’ clinic at Springbank.

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Yak-11 in Discovery Bay, WA

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Yes, we ‘tracked them down’

Untriguing story of the Yak’s travel across the ‘Iron Curtain’, over a half of the world before it ended up in Washington at an aviation-oriented community with an ex-Delta pilot. (as Bill Shepherd’s friend worded it out when he met in a hangar), and here we are, in a small community of aviation enthusiasts at Diamond Point Air Park, WA.

I first saw the plane at Oshkosh

Bill Shepherd is performing on his YAk-11 at Oshkosh and since then I wanted to know more about it, and it’s owner.

I would like to thank Bill for almost two hours he spent with us telling interesting stuff about the plane, that now sort of materialized from my child dreams, and appeared real, in metal and fabric, with Red Stars painted on fuselage and the wings.

‘VVS’ Red Star

See more on this in one of the future reports.

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Yak-1 in Calgary. Update

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(Click HERE, if you wanna see the ‘beginning of the series’)

Like those trips to Springbank..

Enjoyable look of Freedom There are some reasons for that. It is an enjoyable ride, first of all. Going West via Old Springbank Road gets you soon into the open, and you can see a lot of space on foothills, and Rockies on the horizon - my favorite look as you roll down the Hill.

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Yakovlev. The name and the planes

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A bronze plaque with the name by the office door. You maybe noticed, I organized a whole blog category under the same name. Because the Mr. Yakovlev’s name is a very special one. It always meant a lot for the generations of aviators in Russia (or, formerly - in the Soviet Union). They usually learned this name at the very beginning of their way ‘from the ground up’.

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Oshkosh in one glance (Seaplane - reservations)

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(Carried on from THIS..)

Oh, yes, - for myself, as a potential ‘leisure floatplane flier’, a torturous period of ‘daydreaming and seeing myself soaring over the beautiful back country’ began! But a good ‘kick on the head to awaken the lost’ for ‘reality check’ surely wouldn’t harm.

Could be a workshop on floatplane flying basics… ‘Just look into your logbook!’, one may scream, and this one would be right. Thousands hours of multi-engine jet time, and the only experience I had on a single-engine piston powered plane was a time when I flew the Yak-18T in the Aqtobe Civil Aviation Flight College ’some twenty and plus’ years ago.

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Kuban&Cubana

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‘Kuban&Cubana’, - never heard of?

Tell you, nothing in common with Dolce&Gabbana’ :)

‘Kuban&Cubana’ logo

Yeah, sounds funny, and in fact it would better be suitable for an ‘airline alliance’ name.. Or, they’ll rather use this ‘logo’ as a letterhead graphic on the first page of their interline agreement, if ever such an agreement would be forged between the two :)

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Yak-18T in Krasnodar

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Alexei is a great aviation enthusiast Here is my friend Alexei, and we took this picture in Krasnodar, in late 90s. He stands by the Yak-18T which he maintained and prepared for flying.

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