I'm glad there is someone who is able to go to Russian aviation museums and record video since I, being in the US, am unable to. Love the channel and hope there will be more videos on aircraft featured in the museum.
@@alan6832 Two points: the first is that the Soviet leaders, especially Stalin, were bombastically expanding Soviet influence. Fighting against that is not "treachery", as we could hardly be expected to just allow Soviet influence to take over, and the second is that Stalin's expansionism caused your own country to spend massively on the military. Don't forget, your lot were sucking up to Hitler in the 1930's, and the invasiin of Poland waa a JOINT Soviet and Nazi action. Seriously, that senile git, FDR was far too close to Stalin, a man of known treacherous behaviour.
Yeah, USSR expanded to all Eastern Europe partially some Balkan countries (Jugoslavia), partially to Asian countries (definitely Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, etc... Korea, and China was not dependent on Soviet state but was communistic), to many African countries supporting communist rezimes, to Cuba, etc... Continue? Maybe Definitely western world was fighting USSR and pushing on it, but Moscow was not better, was just trying to push its side. It's their politics, they chosen it, and blaming western countries is just an old very old joke.
That's actually the reason why it was based off of Yak-3. Yakovlev wanted to give the pilots something they were mostly well familiar with. Paired with Yakovlev's planes being extremely easy to fly, it was as good as transitional planes come
I'm not completely sure why, but I absolutely love this plane. There's something so special about its long, sloping nose, conventional gear, and tractor jet engine. This to me, is the most inspiring and beautiful of the first generation jet fighters, with the De Havilland comet being a close second. Thank you so much for making such a nice video, on such a wonderful machine
No, I agree, something very cool about this plane. Love the Saab Tunnan as well. And the early MiGs, even with the silly cannon sticking out of the intake splitter. Although there are a ton of fascinating Soviet aircraft, most of them quite obscure in the West, known only to enthusiasts. Yak-25, 27, 28, the
As far as I know there are only two fighter jets to enter service, that were based on piston engine fighters. The Yak-15, and the Swedish SAAB J 21R. I live close to the Swedish Air Force Museum where they have one SAAB J 21R, and also the original propeller version, J 21A, so I've seen that one close up several times. But I've never seen much information on the Yak-15. I very much appreciate this video, and the effort going into making it. Thank you!
This unpronounceable museum looks as good as or better than most aviation museums I've been to in the US - and I've been to a lot! Thanks for another super-high quality video!
I invested many hours getting this plane in the World of Warplanes since I liked that slanted front mounted engine configuration. Light and nimble but underpowered.
For the first time in this life, i am not seeing a Karen-monolinguist bullshitting about someone's accent, ethnos or culture. But just gives an adequate remark. That is what is impressive.
@@worldoftancraft I'm not worthy of your praise, i've posted so manny terrible comments,... I wish you clean and clear skies, soft landings, a nice life and please, for the sake of humanity, spread your genes!
The Yak 3 is one of my favorite aircraft. Jim has one next door hanger in Georgetown Delaware along with his Mig15. The lines are really clean. It powered by an Allison1710V12
Being so close to Russia and being former military and not only seeing them but literally having them "buzzing your hair" during the cold war, my relationship to Russian/Soviet jets is more of a love/hate-relationsship. It's less fun when they come streaking in so low that the lookouts jump down on deck fearing they will crash into your superstructure.
Bonjour a tous du Canada I read the comment of the other one about the cold war here east of North America we are just sqeeze between U.S.A. & Ussr if yoy pass by North Pole you can imagine all this dog fight in Canadian air space at this era i work on a military base at Montréal and my military commarade explain me in case of major conflict with Russia the Canada must stop the Russian for 36 hrs for give the time to American organized a counter attack he had 3 lines of defence with airport & Radar in norh pole the Dew line lower the mid Canada line more lower Pine three line it's a serious business not a joke cold war era
I don’t believe you can undersell the contributions this plane made to Soviet jet fighter development. They learned a lot about what did and did not work and what direction the designs needed go to. It was not just a starting point, but a successful starting point. On a similar note: My father flew the F86.
I love the archive footage, this is a fantastic video. Great historical background and research about a plane that has fascinated me all my life. The MiG-15 gets all the kudos for its military success but I remember as a young boy seeing the old grainy photos of the Yak-15 (NATO reporting name Flora) in my already ancient Observer's Book of Aircraft and thinking "that's where it started, the oldest Soviet jet".
I think you are mistaken. The Yak-15 is the _Feather_ . The Yak-23 is the _Flora_ . It has a similar nose-mounted engine layout, but it uses a centrifugal compressor engine taken from British designs, and a tricycle landing gear, and it is a much "fatter" looking jet with a shorter tail and the cockpit mounted further back. It was a contemporary of the MiG-15 _Faggot_ . so the Yak-15 is the oldest Soviet jet, the Yak-23 is the Flora and was probably what you saw in the book. Although knowing Western publications, they may just have gotten the book wrong, and called the Yak-23 the Yak-15.
You should get ahold of time ghost, they did ww1 real time and are doing ww2 real time atm. Be cool if you could even get videos of planes for a behind the scenes episode. Indy is a great guy I'm sure he would love it.
I saw one when I visited Varna in Bulgaria a few years back. It was on a stand at the side of the road and I could not stop. I wonder if it is still there?
I doubt it was one of these. From what I have read, there is only one of these left in the world. You probably saw a Yak-23, which is similar but fatter and larger, but which was built and exported in much larger numbers. Or possibly a Yak-17, which was a later development of this, mostly as a trainer (UTI) variant. Or even a MiG-9, although those are not much more common. If it was actually a Yak-15, or even MiG-9, it was a very important discovery, since they are both extremely rare today.
Being born just shortly before the Korean war started, I remember the Cold War really well. When the Soviet Union dropped the tsar bomba and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fear of nuclear war was real. I can remember kids saying the Soviet planes were no match for our planes. I didn't believe that because I loved airplanes and I read everything I could on all aircraft. The Tu-95 was no B-52 or B-58 but it could fly the distance with nuclear bombs if our defences could not stop all of them. Were Soviet jets as good and sophisticated as ours? Maybe not, but they were good enough to wage war and inflict damage. Now, Russia builds high quality aircraft and they know how to design top quality planes. Look at the MC-21. I would prefer that over the 737MAX and perhaps one day, it will be allowed to compete in the West with Boeing and Airbus.
that all depends on how you quantify "good", really. This creator does a good job of explaining the difference between individual superiority and _engineering_ success (the "Chieftain" at World of Tanks has a similar philosophy). The question is not "which one would win in a one vs one dogfight", it is "does the machine meet the criteria it was designed to fulfill?", and Soviet machines did. They were crude in comparison, but for a fraction of the cost you got 80-90% of the capability at a far lower cost, and so they were easy to build in vast numbers. Western planners explained it all away by saying "yeah, but when they see the high kill/loss ratio Soviet pilots will lose morale and won't fight as well, so it doesn't matter if our guys are outnumbered massively", which always seemed like an unwise assumption to rely on. Everyone points out the kill record of US planes against Soviet ones, but those are almost always in small scale engagements of roughly equal numbers, where numerical superiority has no effect on the outcome, and/or the aircraft were not being flown by Soviet pilots which makes a big difference. I think we would have found mass formations of Soviet-piloted jets to be a very tough nut to crack indeed, even if per unit our jets were much more expensive and advanced. An F-4 could still only engage one enemy at a time.
Love your videos. You present the facts and explain the political views but you are most fair when it come to WHAT THE CAPABILITIES of an airplane are. Everyone watching your video love planes no matter what government development them.
@@owenshebbeare2999 How do you think any world government sourced aircraft in the era, they sourced engines and airframes from aeronautics production companies and car companies, then they mod them.
More like "aight so those German jets we captured suck absolute balls for one reason or the other, half our industry is in ruins and we need to transition to jet engines and do it fast, so how about we take those German engines and try to make something with them ourselves." After which Alexander Yakovlev thought that a good way to make the transition easier for the pilots would be to stick the engine to a plane pilots are familiar with, which happened to be Yak-3
@@canvlad Свидетели копипаста немцев никогда не меняются, то у них АК "скопировали", то у МиГ-9 "скопировали", потому что видите-ли похож на Та-183, теперь вот этр
I can not decide if the soviets where madmen or genuis for there simple solutions..there is something to be said about the ability to simplfy stuff to such a degree.
The YAK-15 is one of the most manurable Jet with x2 23 mm NS-23KM cannon. is engine is a copy of the ME 262 and uses a Yak 3 fuselage to put the engine. You can fly this plane in War thunder, World of War plane USSR TIer 8 and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946.
I'm one minute and 20 seconds in and I have to stop and say this looks like a very nice video. It's incredibly valuable to me to see this perspective on jet development from the non-Western designers- of which Russia had in spades. Real talent- for years obscured by Cold War prejudices, but impossible to deny. As a designer myself, the content here is like a college course on jet fighter design philosophy and execution. Beautiful stuff. Thank you!
Fun Fact! A Romanian Yak-23 was acquired by America for evaluation from Yugoslavia (the plane was being shipped through Yugoslavia to Romania). Chuck Yeager was part of the flight team, and the test flights were at Wright Field in Dayton Ohio in Nov 1953. Flight tests showed US intelligence was correct with their assessment on how the plane would preform in flight, the build quality was considered to be poor when compared to western jets. After testing was completed the plane was shipped back to Yugoslavia (quietly of course) so it could complete it's journey to Romania.
When I was younger I made a plastic model of the Yak-23... it was not a good plane but I love it. Thanks for this, and you show me a museum that I want to go to.
Right in time for MAKS 2021! As always, I think this video has excellent quality, and hope you’ll release more English content about Soviet and Russian aircraft because information and especially history about these planes in English are mostly biased and far from accurate.
Very good episode, your script has a good flow and is very informative. The Yak-15 must be the only jet fighter which still had fabric covering on some surfaces.
History shows an fascinating interplay between advancements in engine technology and advancements in aerodynamics. The advancements in engines generally, (but not always), leads, and then airframe design catches up. In the interim, there are transitional models that point the way to better performing airplanes. The Yak 15 is one such, as were the P-80, the Meteor, Aracomet. The Mig 15, the F-86 and what followed made Mach 2 fighters possible, once the engines could produce sufficient thrust. A kind of engineering pas-de-deux. Very well done vid. Thumbs up.
Interesting Story: The Russians were having problems with the internal parts of their jets. The metallurgy had some parts melting (due to the low temperature parts). So, the British (who had working Temperature parts) allowed the Russians to tour their aircraft factories. But, the Brits did not allow any device at all (that would record and or collect data). So, the Russians came with soled shoes (very thick and a soft rubber). As the Russians walked through the factory, their Shoes "gathered" the metals. The Russians returned home. They reversed engineered the "gathered" metal and "solved" the metallurgy problem. This is a true story.
Very good video. It can't be emphasized enough that despite the engineers of the day, on all sides, not really knowing what they were doing, they still managed to lay the groundwork for today's amazing fighter planes by trying everything they could think of and not giving up. Yeah, building jet fighters based on prop plane airframes may seem silly or even stupid to some people today but you have to start somewhere. After all, the first prop planes were based on kites...
Wow, you just started a new series you should do sir! I would love to see a series on the evolution of military jets! I love the A12 SR71 video! You were right. I'd love to see you analyze the super saber and F4 Phantom. Of course starting with the first German jet fighter. Please and thank you good sir!
AT 15:53 “it’s funny, while the old guy was the localization on the German, the newcomer became the localization of the British, the RD 500 was made on the basis of the Rolls Royce Derwint 5”. What is even more funny, is the lack of mention that the Soviets were having problems figuring out some of the metallurgical problems. They were being provided UK factory tours of jet development facilities. At one of them they wore shoes with mushy soles in order to collect the metal shavings from the machine tools, thus providing valuable metallurgical information. This claim is made in the book “Gas Turbines for Electric Power Generation, p362, by author S. Can Gullen, Cambridge University Press, 2019” Here is a tinyULED link to the Google Book edition: tinyurl.com/ca4av3ff
The soviets were great practical engineers, you could give them limited resources and they would always find a way to make it work, innovation is a natural ability, not something that requires endless amounts of cash, thanks for uploading.
Can any cold war history buffs help me find a video I saw on youtube? It a doco just after the cold war ended & it followed several NATO pilots who went over to the former USSR and tried out flying their military aircraft, it was a kind of good will tour. The Russian pilots were there as well and it was great. I can't find it any more!
@@basedhuman6520 the engine the yak-15 uses is a copy of junkers jumo 004B, which doesnt have an afterburner, the if it had afterburner it would have to be a copy of the junkers jumo 004E which was the first jet engine with after burner
@mandellorian cuz the germans invented the modern jet engine, the german engines didnt have afterburner but most features modern combat jets have Also thermo jets need afterburners to gain thrust, its litarly an jet engine powered by a piston engine Yak-15 uses a copy of the jumo 004B which doesnt have afterburner
I'm glad there is someone who is able to go to Russian aviation museums and record video since I, being in the US, am unable to. Love the channel and hope there will be more videos on aircraft featured in the museum.
That's why UA-cam exists. And we can see museums in the US, Australia, Japan, etc all over the world.
It's a shame how western treachery forced the USSR, which was never rich, to put so much effort into it's military.
@@alan6832 Two points: the first is that the Soviet leaders, especially Stalin, were bombastically expanding Soviet influence. Fighting against that is not "treachery", as we could hardly be expected to just allow Soviet influence to take over, and the second is that Stalin's expansionism caused your own country to spend massively on the military. Don't forget, your lot were sucking up to Hitler in the 1930's, and the invasiin of Poland waa a JOINT Soviet and Nazi action. Seriously, that senile git, FDR was far too close to Stalin, a man of known treacherous behaviour.
Yeah, USSR expanded to all Eastern Europe partially some Balkan countries (Jugoslavia), partially to Asian countries (definitely Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, etc... Korea, and China was not dependent on Soviet state but was communistic), to many African countries supporting communist rezimes, to Cuba, etc... Continue? Maybe Definitely western world was fighting USSR and pushing on it, but Moscow was not better, was just trying to push its side. It's their politics, they chosen it, and blaming western countries is just an old very old joke.
Yo..what stops you visiting Russia? I've been several times as a UK tourist. Everyone was very hospitable ⭐
It would seem that the YAK-15 could be described as the plane that taught the Soviet military how to operate in the jet age.
That's actually the reason why it was based off of Yak-3. Yakovlev wanted to give the pilots something they were mostly well familiar with. Paired with Yakovlev's planes being extremely easy to fly, it was as good as transitional planes come
good analysis mr obvious
@@ВадимВадимович-ь6тbe nice
I'm not completely sure why, but I absolutely love this plane. There's something so special about its long, sloping nose, conventional gear, and tractor jet engine. This to me, is the most inspiring and beautiful of the first generation jet fighters, with the De Havilland comet being a close second. Thank you so much for making such a nice video, on such a wonderful machine
Comet? You mean the Vampire, right?
@@anzaca1 Or he meant "jet aircraft", or forgot what he was typing halfway through.
No, I agree, something very cool about this plane. Love the Saab Tunnan as well. And the early MiGs, even with the silly cannon sticking out of the intake splitter. Although there are a ton of fascinating Soviet aircraft, most of them quite obscure in the West, known only to enthusiasts. Yak-25, 27, 28, the
@@justforever96 having reread it, I think you're both right
@@anzaca1 I think so, although both De Havilland Comets are beautiful in their own rights
I made a model of this aircraft many years ago . It has always has been one of my favourite planes .
Bennnnnnfffffffff
As far as I know there are only two fighter jets to enter service, that were based on piston engine fighters. The Yak-15, and the Swedish SAAB J 21R. I live close to the Swedish Air Force Museum where they have one SAAB J 21R, and also the original propeller version, J 21A, so I've seen that one close up several times. But I've never seen much information on the Yak-15. I very much appreciate this video, and the effort going into making it. Thank you!
Excellent story telling, you covered every important point and kept the storyline moving at a good speed. Thank you.
This unpronounceable museum looks as good as or better than most aviation museums I've been to in the US - and I've been to a lot! Thanks for another super-high quality video!
I invested many hours getting this plane in the World of Warplanes since I liked that slanted front mounted engine configuration. Light and nimble but underpowered.
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Found the only person who plays World of Warplanes. Impressive.
@@Nyx_2142 it's a fine looking jet,and Iam sure it was effective for it's time.The Yakovlev company still to date makes good airplane's.
try it in War Thunder you'll know the pain and suffer
@@royalanania3306 mostly navy planes if they do military projects
I've watched your 2 year old video about the tu-104 before this one. It's impressive, how much your pronounciation has improoved since then
For the first time in this life, i am not seeing a Karen-monolinguist bullshitting about someone's accent, ethnos or culture. But just gives an adequate remark. That is what is impressive.
@@worldoftancraft I'm not worthy of your praise, i've posted so manny terrible comments,... I wish you clean and clear skies, soft landings, a nice life and please, for the sake of humanity, spread your genes!
The Yak 3 is one of my favorite aircraft. Jim has one next door hanger in Georgetown Delaware along with his Mig15. The lines are really clean. It powered by an Allison1710V12
I'm in Australia, I love all the cold war Russian old birds ❤
Im from New Mexico USA and love Russian old birds as well.
Being so close to Russia and being former military and not only seeing them but literally having them "buzzing your hair" during the cold war, my relationship to Russian/Soviet jets is more of a love/hate-relationsship.
It's less fun when they come streaking in so low that the lookouts jump down on deck fearing they will crash into your superstructure.
Bonjour a tous du Canada I read the comment of the other one about the cold war
here east of North America we are just sqeeze between U.S.A. & Ussr if yoy pass
by North Pole you can imagine all this dog fight in Canadian air space at this era
i work on a military base at Montréal and my military commarade explain me
in case of major conflict with Russia the Canada must stop the Russian for 36 hrs
for give the time to American organized a counter attack he had 3 lines of defence
with airport & Radar in norh pole the Dew line lower the mid Canada line more lower
Pine three line it's a serious business not a joke cold war era
More of these! The early jet days are an absolutely fascinating subject
Excellent Video, I always thought the Yak 15/17 and 23 were very elegant looking aircraft.
Excellent video. Loved the explanation and narration. 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
I don’t believe you can undersell the contributions this plane made to Soviet jet fighter development. They learned a lot about what did and did not work and what direction the designs needed go to. It was not just a starting point, but a successful starting point. On a similar note: My father flew the F86.
always liked flying the Yak-15 in the PC sim IL2 but the very low ammo supply made it really difficult to do much damage
You always make an excellent presentation.
I really like your vids, like the way you present things.
Thank you for your excellent presentation of the first Jet Fighters of the then USSR!
Thanks that was very interesting. Really enjoy your channel.
Good history and a good first jet plane and beginning for Soviet jet fighter planes.
Interesting information but espionage was rampant when it came to jet aircraft during this era. But very informative, good video
Excellent, thank you!
This is a very excellent video....Thanks very much....!
I love the archive footage, this is a fantastic video. Great historical background and research about a plane that has fascinated me all my life. The MiG-15 gets all the kudos for its military success but I remember as a young boy seeing the old grainy photos of the Yak-15 (NATO reporting name Flora) in my already ancient Observer's Book of Aircraft and thinking "that's where it started, the oldest Soviet jet".
I think you are mistaken. The Yak-15 is the _Feather_ . The Yak-23 is the _Flora_ . It has a similar nose-mounted engine layout, but it uses a centrifugal compressor engine taken from British designs, and a tricycle landing gear, and it is a much "fatter" looking jet with a shorter tail and the cockpit mounted further back. It was a contemporary of the MiG-15 _Faggot_ . so the Yak-15 is the oldest Soviet jet, the Yak-23 is the Flora and was probably what you saw in the book. Although knowing Western publications, they may just have gotten the book wrong, and called the Yak-23 the Yak-15.
Great to see the Russian side of aviation and super comments with passion.
You should get ahold of time ghost, they did ww1 real time and are doing ww2 real time atm. Be cool if you could even get videos of planes for a behind the scenes episode. Indy is a great guy I'm sure he would love it.
That is really some weird rudder petal mechanism.A lot of throw and leverage I can see.
I saw one when I visited Varna in Bulgaria a few years back. It was on a stand at the side of the road and I could not stop. I wonder if it is still there?
I doubt it was one of these. From what I have read, there is only one of these left in the world. You probably saw a Yak-23, which is similar but fatter and larger, but which was built and exported in much larger numbers. Or possibly a Yak-17, which was a later development of this, mostly as a trainer (UTI) variant. Or even a MiG-9, although those are not much more common. If it was actually a Yak-15, or even MiG-9, it was a very important discovery, since they are both extremely rare today.
I like it. The plane and the channel. The Russians have a certain design genius.
Being born just shortly before the Korean war started, I remember the Cold War really well. When the Soviet Union dropped the tsar bomba and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fear of nuclear war was real. I can remember kids saying the Soviet planes were no match for our planes. I didn't believe that because I loved airplanes and I read everything I could on all aircraft. The Tu-95 was no B-52 or B-58 but it could fly the distance with nuclear bombs if our defences could not stop all of them. Were Soviet jets as good and sophisticated as ours? Maybe not, but they were good enough to wage war and inflict damage. Now, Russia builds high quality aircraft and they know how to design top quality planes. Look at the MC-21. I would prefer that over the 737MAX and perhaps one day, it will be allowed to compete in the West with Boeing and Airbus.
that all depends on how you quantify "good", really. This creator does a good job of explaining the difference between individual superiority and _engineering_ success (the "Chieftain" at World of Tanks has a similar philosophy). The question is not "which one would win in a one vs one dogfight", it is "does the machine meet the criteria it was designed to fulfill?", and Soviet machines did. They were crude in comparison, but for a fraction of the cost you got 80-90% of the capability at a far lower cost, and so they were easy to build in vast numbers. Western planners explained it all away by saying "yeah, but when they see the high kill/loss ratio Soviet pilots will lose morale and won't fight as well, so it doesn't matter if our guys are outnumbered massively", which always seemed like an unwise assumption to rely on. Everyone points out the kill record of US planes against Soviet ones, but those are almost always in small scale engagements of roughly equal numbers, where numerical superiority has no effect on the outcome, and/or the aircraft were not being flown by Soviet pilots which makes a big difference. I think we would have found mass formations of Soviet-piloted jets to be a very tough nut to crack indeed, even if per unit our jets were much more expensive and advanced. An F-4 could still only engage one enemy at a time.
I was hoping for a video about some first gen jet fighters.
Yeah like the MIG-9 that was actually their first.
Great video, as always!
Thank you for this very informative video!
Love your videos. You present the facts and explain the political views but you are most fair when it come to WHAT THE CAPABILITIES of an airplane are. Everyone watching your video love planes no matter what government development them.
Thank you
14:17 COOL SHADES
I want a model of this plane for myself as a gift.
Great Vid on a very unusual Aircraft , how the hell they got those machines in there is a boggler .
Excellent video..
Good video.
Thanks, I subscribed.
Refueling your Soviet fighter with a German engine from a rivet by rivet copy of the B29- priceless
hahaha =) use what works man.
You should do the yak 42
That plane is more like "let's stick that Me-262 Jumo engine on some Yak fuselage and see what happens" than real project.
Yeah, but the first US jets were just British-designed engines stuck on to a Bell airframe fo create the oddly named "P-59 Aerocomet" @2.35.
@@owenshebbeare2999 How do you think any world government sourced aircraft in the era, they sourced engines and airframes from aeronautics production companies and car companies, then they mod them.
More like "aight so those German jets we captured suck absolute balls for one reason or the other, half our industry is in ruins and we need to transition to jet engines and do it fast, so how about we take those German engines and try to make something with them ourselves." After which Alexander Yakovlev thought that a good way to make the transition easier for the pilots would be to stick the engine to a plane pilots are familiar with, which happened to be Yak-3
pretty much the ME 1101 which never flew but parts of the design made it into this and the Bell xp-5
How come if Yak is not a swept wing fighter? Slanted engine in front and that's it?
@@canvlad Свидетели копипаста немцев никогда не меняются, то у них АК "скопировали", то у МиГ-9 "скопировали", потому что видите-ли похож на Та-183, теперь вот этр
15:40. Is that a Lunokhod frame in the lower right?
1:21 footage of spitfires and heinkle 111, what show/movie is this from?? =)
It would have made a nice little ground pounder too.
Isn't that a Model A Ford roadster in the background?
In everything I've read about the first flights, the chief designers decided on a coin toss, and MiG won.
As a fan of Russian military aviation I enjoyed this..by the way for those that don't know the Yak 15 was allocated the NATO codename Fantail
People seem to have trouble with NATO designations. No, the La-15 was the _Fantail_ . The _Flora_ was the Yak-23. The Yak-15 was the _Feather_ .
"What is a jet fighter "?
A weapon with wings.
Every time I hear "Ride of the Valkyries" I can't help but think of War Thunder
I think he is saying "reddendesign" towards end. Friend, redden and re-design are different words.
I gotta know what movies are referenced here!
12.:53: And the Yak-15 is towed by a Lend/Lease WW II Dodge WC-53.
Does anyone know the title to the music playing in the back...? 8:18 - 9:18
I can not decide if the soviets where madmen or genuis for there simple solutions..there is something to be said about the ability to simplfy stuff to such a degree.
The YAK-15 is one of the most manurable Jet with x2 23 mm NS-23KM cannon. is engine is a copy of the ME 262 and uses a Yak 3 fuselage to put the engine. You can fly this plane in War thunder, World of War plane USSR TIer 8 and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946.
Handsome little jet,but still Yakovlev contributed alot to commercial planes,and fighters that help defeat the Luftwaffe.
I require Soviet specialists and Engineers to help me with my bathroom renovations.
I'm not doing so good.
Where in Russia, is this museum located? Thanks.
Ilynskoe shosse. 4th km, building 9, Arkhangel'skoye, Moscow Oblast, 143420
@@sodinc Thank you!
Заря реактивной авиации. Самое начало рассвета реактивной эры.
It has a little steampunk feel.
Jet fighter
-powered by jet engine
-is designated a fighter
Sky plz make episode on Soviet spy planes
Russia always had the best and beautiful planes!
What about the SU-9? Wasn’t that the first?
It wasn’t in full production idk if that’s ur criteria but it was the first as far as I know
@1.10 or so: first accepted into service. Both Germany and Britain had non-service prototypes too, as did the US.
Tricycle landing gear not a requirement.
The Jak 15 was the further development of a german projekt!So basically the whole plane was a german projekt!The Me 1106!
They used German scientists and blueprints but they obviously adapted the Yak-9/Yak-3 frame for use with a jumo 004 engine
Yak to the future
I have been saying 'Yakovlev' wrong my whole life.
I`m intrigued: how exactly?
I'm one minute and 20 seconds in and I have to stop and say this looks like a very nice video. It's incredibly valuable to me to see this perspective on jet development from the non-Western designers- of which Russia had in spades. Real talent- for years obscured by Cold War prejudices, but impossible to deny. As a designer myself, the content here is like a college course on jet fighter design philosophy and execution. Beautiful stuff. Thank you!
Fun Fact! A Romanian Yak-23 was acquired by America for evaluation from Yugoslavia (the plane was being shipped through Yugoslavia to Romania). Chuck Yeager was part of the flight team, and the test flights were at Wright Field in Dayton Ohio in Nov 1953. Flight tests showed US intelligence was correct with their assessment on how the plane would preform in flight, the build quality was considered to be poor when compared to western jets. After testing was completed the plane was shipped back to Yugoslavia (quietly of course) so it could complete it's journey to Romania.
When I was younger I made a plastic model of the Yak-23... it was not a good plane but I love it. Thanks for this, and you show me a museum that I want to go to.
It trained pilots headed for the MiG-15, so it worked out well
Skyships Eng, can you do a documentary on Soviet sound barrier testing/breaking?
Great content!
Just Amazing! Nice job on these contents!
Right in time for MAKS 2021!
As always, I think this video has excellent quality, and hope you’ll release more English content about Soviet and Russian aircraft because information and especially history about these planes in English are mostly biased and far from accurate.
Love the way you cover these different planes areas of aviation. Always looking forward to your next video. Thank you so much!
This was very nice to watch! Great video. Now I'm curious to know more about early soviet military jet planes
That looks like a very interesting museum. I bet there were a lot of rude Russian words used manoeuvring the aircraft around those pillars though!
They probably removed the wings. They do that in a lot of aircraft museums
To me, at least, the Yak-15 looks beautiful. It looks a lot like a jet air racer.
Very good episode, your script has a good flow and is very informative.
The Yak-15 must be the only jet fighter which still had fabric covering on some surfaces.
The yak 15 is pretty much a propellor plane with a jet engine
History shows an fascinating interplay between advancements in engine technology and advancements in aerodynamics. The advancements in engines generally, (but not always), leads, and then airframe design catches up. In the interim, there are transitional models that point the way to better performing airplanes. The Yak 15 is one such, as were the P-80, the Meteor, Aracomet. The Mig 15, the F-86 and what followed made Mach 2 fighters possible, once the engines could produce sufficient thrust. A kind of engineering pas-de-deux. Very well done vid. Thumbs up.
It's a shame Soviet fighters don't get much attention-this one is historically important but almost unknown.
Interesting Story:
The Russians were having problems with the internal parts of their jets. The metallurgy had some parts melting (due to the low temperature parts).
So, the British (who had working Temperature parts) allowed the Russians to tour their aircraft factories. But, the Brits did not allow any device at all (that would record and or collect data).
So, the Russians came with soled shoes (very thick and a soft rubber). As the Russians walked through the factory, their Shoes "gathered" the metals.
The Russians returned home.
They reversed engineered the "gathered" metal and "solved" the metallurgy problem.
This is a true story.
Serious Russian ingenuity, impressive!
👏👏👏👏👏. A complete presentation of Yak jet fighters please.
Very good video.
It can't be emphasized enough that despite the engineers of the day, on all sides, not really knowing what they were doing, they still managed to lay the groundwork for today's amazing fighter planes by trying everything they could think of and not giving up.
Yeah, building jet fighters based on prop plane airframes may seem silly or even stupid to some people today but you have to start somewhere. After all, the first prop planes were based on kites...
Wow, you just started a new series you should do sir! I would love to see a series on the evolution of military jets! I love the A12 SR71 video! You were right. I'd love to see you analyze the super saber and F4 Phantom. Of course starting with the first German jet fighter. Please and thank you good sir!
AT 15:53 “it’s funny, while the old guy was the localization on the German, the newcomer became the localization of the British, the RD 500 was made on the basis of the Rolls Royce Derwint 5”. What is even more funny, is the lack of mention that the Soviets were having problems figuring out some of the metallurgical problems. They were being provided UK factory tours of jet development facilities. At one of them they wore shoes with mushy soles in order to collect the metal shavings from the machine tools, thus providing valuable metallurgical information. This claim is made in the book “Gas Turbines for Electric Power Generation, p362, by author S. Can Gullen, Cambridge University Press, 2019” Here is a tinyULED link to the Google Book edition: tinyurl.com/ca4av3ff
Looks like an amazing museum.. Thank you for posting your wonderful video
Excellent!! Great topic,good story-telling,loved it so please do more?
Nice work! Are you going to make a video about the first japanese and british jets?
The first Japanese jets would be interesting.
One of my favourite jets! I didn't know it had successors :O
2 of 23mm is not a shortcut. A couple of these rounds brought down anything flying.
It's just wonderful that the internet allows us to share such interesting tails. I hope we can forever be free to do so. Thanks.
The soviets were great practical engineers, you could give them limited resources and they would always find a way to make it work, innovation is a natural ability, not something that requires endless amounts of cash, thanks for uploading.
Can any cold war history buffs help me find a video I saw on youtube? It a doco just after the cold war ended & it followed several NATO pilots who went over to the former USSR and tried out flying their military aircraft, it was a kind of good will tour. The Russian pilots were there as well and it was great. I can't find it any more!
Bruh, I dont care about "united states" stuff, I came here for Yak.
That steel tailwheel makes perfect sense. Sparks? What sparks?
Doubles as afterburner igniter
@@eugenebebs7767 i dont think it had aftburner back then
@@startingbark0356 It did, they started using afterburners after the MIG-9
@@basedhuman6520 the engine the yak-15 uses is a copy of junkers jumo 004B, which doesnt have an afterburner, the if it had afterburner it would have to be a copy of the junkers jumo 004E which was the first jet engine with after burner
@mandellorian cuz the germans invented the modern jet engine, the german engines didnt have afterburner but most features modern combat jets have
Also thermo jets need afterburners to gain thrust, its litarly an jet engine powered by a piston engine
Yak-15 uses a copy of the jumo 004B which doesnt have afterburner