Yak-3 is highly agile, low altitude and low range fighter armed with 1x20 +1(2) 12.7 on a motor. P51 is a low agile, high altitude, long range with 6x0.5 in a wings. They are basically opposite planes.
Hans-Werner Lerche. Luftwaffe Test Pilot: Flying captured Allied Aircraft of World War 2. Jane's Publishing Company: The Yak-3 made a very good impression on me, in particular, the surface of the plywood wing was of excellent quality. It was smaller than the Yak-9 and weighed only two and a half tons in the equipped state, therefore its power load was only about 2 kg / hp. You can imagine what this meant, at least in terms of acceleration! Another surprising fact was that despite the smaller wing area of about 15 square meters, the wing loading was relatively low due to its low weight. Walking around the Yak-3, I noticed with satisfaction that it had excellent, wide-spaced landing gear that retract into the fuselage. Then I sat down in the pilot's seat and began a routine inspection in order to figure out what the control levers were for. The engineer, standing next to the plane, watched my actions. The water-cooled motor worked very well and there was a decent distance between the running propeller and the ground. Anyway, I knew that I would have to mobilize all my flying skills, since these little devils can sometimes be very nasty if, for example, try to make a turn or lose speed on takeoff.
@@tatulsukiasyan9549 Yes the sound is awesome but this is a replacement engine, they put an american Allison 1710 engine in her, over 69000 engines were built During the world war ll.
Best low altitude fighter of ww2, but only that, for example fw 190 was a good fighter and fighter- bomber too... mustang is an high altitude high speed fighter
I have read that the German Luftwaffe high command told their pilots of all fighter planes that under no circumstances do you dog fight a Yak 3! What was said was do not engage a Yak that doesn't have the oil cooler below the front of the engine. The Yak 3's oil cooler was hidden in the wing along with the radiators, one in each wing. For some reason, this was the absolute best dogfighting plane of WWII. And they look a tiny bit like a Mustang with the airscoop under the fuselage. I think they are good looking planes. They are fairly small compared to most fighter planes of WWII.
not comparable to the Mustang who was a long range fighter: the Yak 1 and 3 was inspired from the french fighters DewoitineD520 and VG33 because the engine was similar and relative low power= need the best aerodynamics possible+ light weight...
Except at high altitude, this could be the best fighter of WW2. French pilots who flew them for Russia rated them better than P51D's or Spitfires and had no respect for Focke Wulf 190's, their frequent opponents in dogfights. That one goes over like a jet!
A 1500 hp Allison and 4 blade prop I'm thinking would put that airplane on pretty good footing competing against a P-51 below 15,000 feet. The problem with the Allison is that a really good turbo charger system was never developed for it. The GE Moss used in the P-38 Lightning was finnicky and prone to easily over boosting the Allison and it required a high level of the pilots attention thus increasing the pilots workload in combat. I'm tempted to think that a better pressure wastegate system with barometric controls might have helped. I bet that Yak 3 with that Allison and 4 blade prop is a real hotrod below 15,000 feet.
Did anyone notice the glider very close to the Yak-3@5:20 time? Not good. This aircraft is super nice and I do like it over the Mustang by far. Must be nice to live the dream. Thanks for NOT adding stupid music. This fighter speaks for itself.
In terms of this, vs British and US aircraft, the closest I can think of is the Spitfire MkXII. That would be a very interesting experiment. The Spitfire MkXII was basically a clipped winged Spitfire MkV / VIII, powered by a single stage Griffon. Resulting in a highly manoeuvrable, very high performance low altitude fighter. I'd say extremely comparable the the Yak 3.
Yak-3 originally didn't have them. It had 2 50.cal UB machine guns in the cowling and one 20mm ShVAK cannon on the propeller shaft, it had a version with 3 B20 cannons though. Soviet pilots usually hated wing mounted guns because of their convergence problem
Soviet ace Alexandr Pokryshkin flew a P39N (lend lease fighter) he had his planes wing mounted 50. cals removed because it also had nose mounted guns that can do the job. That pretty much shows the soviet doctrine. Guys preferred concentrated fire and accuracy over hit probability and hit count. It also made the fighter more nimble hence the machineguns weighed over 150kgs or 300 ish pounds.
The 4 blade Aeroproducts propeller with the high activity T-28A blades (approx. 10 foot diameter) was used on several Reno racing aircraft (Tsunami, Stilletto), but they all had souped V-1650 Merlin racing engines. I doubt the Allison V-1710 in this Yak is generating more than 1,500 horsepower, so it has more prop efficiency than this engine needs. I would expect torque at take-off to be a bit gamier than with the modified, 3 blade Hamilton Standard DC-3 props they usually fly with.
И это не як3 а як9ум.. чертежи як9у за основу. Их выпустили партию для сертификации.. так как материалы другие и технологии сборки другие мотор тоже другой.. так что не як 3 это🤣🤣🤣🤣 як3 это русфанер... в оригинале примерно три машины в музеях..
@@владимирвасильев-д7д хер поймёшь, о чем ты ... Здесь играем , здесь не играем. . Здесь селёдку ( на чертежах) заворачиваем .. Вопрос один: сколько лопастей ? У всех оригиналов 3? Или ещё какие-то варианты были. Не путай меня. С праздником Победы!
Great plane just short legs and altitude. They had only about an hour of fuel. They had to use airfields close to the front. As long as they didn't get caught on the ground the Germans were in trouble.
No, there are only 2 left in the world and both are on static display...One is in the Czech Republic and the other is in Russia...There are couple of Yaks currently for sale that are flying...
Toller Fighter - ein richtig böses kleines Tier! Aber, wie gut war sie in originaler - (Engine/Propeller) - Konfiguration? Wieder mal lieber Gruß, und ein großes DANKE für deine Arbeit !!! Frank
Die Yak 3 mit dem originalen Klimov 105 (alias verbesserter Hispano Suiza Y12) wahr so schnell wie eine bf 109 der selben periode, aber VIEL vendiger...Der sehr bekannte Normandie Niemen staffel benutzte am meisten die yak 3 (auch Yak 1 und 9)
Looks remarkably similar to a Martin Baker MB5. (By some accounts the best WWII propeller-driven fighter of WWII, but for several reassons was to not see production.) And very similar as well to the Mustang.
How come it can look similar to the airplane which made its first flight 5 years later? Yakovlev had long aircraft designing experience before Yak-3 which was the further development of Yak-1 which in its turn was developed from his previous aircrafts like AIR-7 (first flight in November 1930) and UT-1 (1935). All these aircrafts has Yakovlev's recognizable design pattern and it's stupid to say like this.
Russian Mustang? ^_^ The Yak-3's lineage(Yak-1) is actually older than the p-51's by almost a year, I think. I love them both. For the P51, I prefer the birdcage version.
Most of the Yaks I’ve seen had Allison Engines with 3 Blade Props. That most Definitely Looks, and Sounds like a Merlin.....4 Blade Prop! Out of a Mustang ?
I get a sad feeling the more of these that I watch. As with older humans, these planes are thinning out in numbers. I guess I kind of feel for the planes, not seeing around as many machines like itself.
Low altitude US plane similar is the P-39. Not many planes could match the 'Cobra's performance in that arena. Why the Russian pilots liked it. It would outperform the Germans at those low levels
@@brucemitch928 According to Green and Swanborough's WW2 Aircraft Fact Files, the Yak-3 was the smallest and lightest fighter to see large scale operational service in WWII. Even more interesting is that the Mustang's Allison V1710s and Packard Merlins were 27_litres, and the Yak-3's original Klimov VK-107 was 35_litres. Interestingly, the Merlin is the heavier of the two engines.
@@MarsFKA Allison V 1710 was a Great engine. Even if at first the Rolls-Roys Merlin / Packard V 1650 surpassed it in performance, but by 1944 Allison caught up with it.
The restaured or new built Yak's use Allison engines, but the ORIGINAL Yaks did NEVER use such engine, but Klimov 105 series engines who are improved evolutions from the Hispano Suiza Y12engines, the same who was under the hood from the french fighter Dewoitine D520, engines niknamed in France "moteur canon" (canon engine) because the 20mm Hispano canon was integrated between the cylinders from the engine and fire through the propeller shaft (not possible with a Allison), and the cooler was placed on the D520 under the fuselage a bit like the Mustang : USSR did buy the license from the Y12 before WW2...
the Yak is not the spit or the Mustang the mustang was built for escort of the bombers , the spit is an interceptor for high altitude , th Yak is built for to clean the sky upper the battelfield before the danse of the stourmoviks , after the war the french fighter squadron Normandie Niemen gone back in france , with more 270 victories for 41 casualities training and accidents , VS the best german pilots of th Luftwaffe , all the french pilots of the western front flyed few minutes on the Yak 3 , every body préfered .... the Yak 3 , later th french pilots of the group took the NC900 , and they understood why they stilled alive , the Yak 3 was as true FW 190 A slayer , the Flying T34 , or a ppsh41 for the street fight , the best tool , today the allisson V12 still heavyer than the Klimov and a fight between a P51 allisson and a YaK 3 is lost for the mustang th Belle P39 is better
nope P51 is a BIG and powerfull long range fighter, yak 3 (and 1) was small and lightweight and had much less power, less than the Spitfire same era...but achieve similar speeds because design the best to use the power...
@@leneanderthalien well yeah back then that have problems with range everything the Russians had didn't have no range but as you look at it there all water cool inline engines but you're right the P51 was the one that broke the backbone of the luftwaffe
yak3 with allison but wasnt that allison in p51 tossed out in favor of merlin,wouldnt Russians have used their Klimov 1100hp v12 pre war hisso licensee with out updated superchargers ,ie prewar went into morane saulnier of that era.
Klimov 105 engine was a evolution from the Hispano Suiza Y12 engine (USSR did buy the license before WW2): evolutions was far more than only supercharging...
@@leneanderthalien figured Russian,s must have run with the engineering ball so to speak ,same with radial in lag 7 what was given under license Curtis wright cyclone that army air Corp rejected.
@CTizer90 "In his first year of operational service, (Erich) Hartmann felt a distinct lack of respect towards Soviet pilots. Most Soviet fighters did not even have effective gunsights and their pilots, some cases in the early weeks, were forced to draw one on the windscreen by hand: "In the early days, incredible as it may seem, there was no reason for you to feel fear if the Russian fighter was behind you. With their hand-painted gunsights they couldn't pull the lead properly (deflection shooting) or hit you."...Kaplan, Philip (2007). Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe in World War II.
@CTizer90 Of course...I guess that among the 46,000+ VVS fighters lost during WW2 the nazis were not able to recover a single one and had to rely on captured Soviet pilots to explain it to them...Keep reaching...
Agree fully. When the 8TH AF did the publicity stunt of a bomber mission deep into Eastern Europe a number of 51's could not make the return trip. Airframe stress, engine loss, and metal fatigue caused a number of them to be given to the Russians, our "Allies". This allowed the Russians to reverse engineer and upgrade the Yak & Lav family of fighters. They did the same with the B-29's. Just took them a bit longer with the Bombers.
@@leneanderthalien "nope this is not not true" What a true Aviation historian counterpoint! No caps lock? Even better though copied from the French! What? Pre - War? GEEZE, Go to the library
Where did you get this bullshit, America-firster? In 1942 under the Lend-Lease programm 10 Mustangs were provided to USSR, which were tested by the Air Force Research Institute for review. Those planes were found to be unusable. There were no further deliveries of the P-51 to the USSR. Also they always were of no interest for Soviet engineers in contrast with B-29's which actually was developed by international team of engineers, gathered together by US goverment.
Совершенно несравнимые машины. Як-3 чистый истребитель, для завоевания господства в воздухе. Мустанг самолет для сопровождения бомбардировщиков, должен летать далеко и высоко.
Looks like the offspring of a Spitfire & a Hurricane if anything,nowt like a Mustang,just look at the styling,the undercarriage,the shape of the tail & cockpit ffs anybody with a modicum of knowledge of ww2 aircraft can see it
If you really had any modicum of knowledge of ww2 aircraft you would not write such a bullshit. Yak-3 was based on Yak-9 which in its turn was based on Yak-1. And Yak-1 was developed from UT-2 (first flight in 1935) and AIR-7 (first flight in 1932) from whom all Yaks got their shape of the tail & cockpit.
Конечно не родной. И самолет не настоящий. Это переделка из учебно-тренировочного ЯК-11.Созданного на базе ЯК-3. Просто установили двигатель жидкостного охлаждения Allison V-1710. Да еще и винт четырехлопастной поставили.Летающих ЯКов и ЛАвок нет. Не сохранили.
@@mylakay100 Я бы их не сравнивал. P-51B-K Mustangs и Spitfire Mk IX - это выдающиеся истребители сопровождения бомбардировщиков и против бомбардировщиков, на высоких эшелонах. Як-3 - это истребитель истребителей. До 12.5 км он поднимался, конечно. Но главная его задача - защита фронта от штурмовиков и истребителей. К примеру, скорость набора 5000 м на P-51 около 9.0 минут, а на Як-3 всего 3.8 минуты ... Вот и разница. И как бы я не любил Мустанг за его удобство, а Спитфайр за пилотаж, при встрече с Як-3 я бы ретировался пикированием и в бой не вступал. Оставалось либо стрельба на встречных курсах, либо сверху сзади в пикировании со стороны Солнца. Ну, или надеяться встретить необученного слепого глухого одинокого пилота без вооружения и топлива. Як-3, на тот момент поршневой без ракетной авиации, это превосходство по всем характеристикам истребительного боя. К сожалению их не осталось уже. В музее Ле Бурже стоит один, настоящий боевой борт Нормандии-Неман, ... экспонат.
@@vasilsarayev Мы не можем объединить P51 и Yak 3, P51 был большим охотником с очень большой дальностью, в то время как Yak 3 был маленьким и легким охотником, вдохновленным французской моделью легкого охотника Dewoitine D551 и VG33, которые в качестве напоминания использовали тот же тип двигателя, что и Як 3, а именно Hispano Suiza Y12 (Климов 105 - это эволюция)
@@leneanderthalien Maybe. All planes are similar to the plane of the Wright brothers. However, as a pilot to engineer, Dewoitine looks more like the Mig-1 and Mig-3 than the Yak-3. And it is unlikely that the engineers of great France in 1939 would have used tarpaulin, plywood and chromensil to create a fighter, and an engine with a motor life of 25 hours. As for the sizes of Yak-3 and P51, they are approximately comparable, equal. What can not be said about the dynamic, flight characteristics of these fighters.
Yak-3 is highly agile, low altitude and low range fighter armed with 1x20 +1(2) 12.7 on a motor. P51 is a low agile, high altitude, long range with 6x0.5 in a wings. They are basically opposite planes.
Hans-Werner Lerche. Luftwaffe Test Pilot: Flying captured Allied Aircraft of World War 2. Jane's Publishing Company:
The Yak-3 made a very good impression on me, in particular, the surface of the plywood wing was of excellent quality. It was smaller than the Yak-9 and weighed only two and a half tons in the equipped state, therefore its power load was only about 2 kg / hp. You can imagine what this meant, at least in terms of acceleration! Another surprising fact was that despite the smaller wing area of about 15 square meters, the wing loading was relatively low due to its low weight.
Walking around the Yak-3, I noticed with satisfaction that it had excellent, wide-spaced landing gear that retract into the fuselage. Then I sat down in the pilot's seat and began a routine inspection in order to figure out what the control levers were for. The engineer, standing next to the plane, watched my actions. The water-cooled motor worked very well and there was a decent distance between the running propeller and the ground. Anyway, I knew that I would have to mobilize all my flying skills, since these little devils can sometimes be very nasty if, for example, try to make a turn or lose speed on takeoff.
beautiful and wonderful plane, one of the best WWII planes!!!
Wonderful yes
Fabulous aircraft.
Thx mate
A beautiful plane
Yes i also Love it
Awesome Machine.Thank you For Sharing.God Bless You
Thanks God Bless you too
Beautiful bird! Great sounding engine! 👍👍👍👍👍
Soviet power!
@@tatulsukiasyan9549 Yes the sound is awesome but this is a replacement engine, they put an american Allison 1710 engine in her, over 69000 engines were built
During the world war ll.
Amazing video! Excellent stuff!
Best low altitude fighter of ww2, but only that, for example fw 190 was a good fighter and fighter- bomber too... mustang is an high altitude high speed fighter
Because was developed on that purpose best close combat fighter, real nimble.
For bomber and more generically roles was Yak9 series.
@@mr.gadfly6249 lol that is normal, its an eastern fighter lol
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16 Jun 1944
x24 Bf109 vs x18 Yak3
loses:
x15 / 24 x1 / 18
Красивый самолёт. Идеально восстановлен. Лайк.
I have read that the German Luftwaffe high command told their pilots of all fighter planes that under no circumstances do you dog fight a Yak 3! What was said was do not engage a Yak that doesn't have the oil cooler below the front of the engine. The Yak 3's oil cooler was hidden in the wing along with the radiators, one in each wing. For some reason, this was the absolute best dogfighting plane of WWII. And they look a tiny bit like a Mustang with the airscoop under the fuselage. I think they are good looking planes. They are fairly small compared to most fighter planes of WWII.
not comparable to the Mustang who was a long range fighter: the Yak 1 and 3 was inspired from the french fighters DewoitineD520 and VG33 because the engine was similar and relative low power= need the best aerodynamics possible+ light weight...
They were instructed not to dogfight the thing below a certain height.
Thanks for the video
Thx watching
Super plane and flight demo.Sound of engine does not lead to confusion!Bravo ans thanks!
not the original engine...
@@leneanderthalien Absolutely. Original engines were copies of Hispano-Suiza 12 Y engines .
Except at high altitude, this could be the best fighter of WW2. French pilots who flew them for Russia rated them better than P51D's or Spitfires and had no respect for Focke Wulf 190's, their frequent opponents in dogfights. That one goes over like a jet!
A 1500 hp Allison and 4 blade prop I'm thinking would put that airplane on pretty good footing competing against a P-51 below 15,000 feet. The problem with the Allison is that a really good turbo charger system was never developed for it. The GE Moss used in the P-38 Lightning was finnicky and prone to easily over boosting the Allison and it required a high level of the pilots attention thus increasing the pilots workload in combat. I'm tempted to think that a better pressure wastegate system with barometric controls might have helped. I bet that Yak 3 with that Allison and 4 blade prop is a real hotrod below 15,000 feet.
yes the owner likes to have the power not using it
@@Warbirds Thanks for responding. Be safe guys. Blue skies and tailwinds. 👍❤️
@@topturretgunner Thanks mate !
Did anyone notice the glider very close to the Yak-3@5:20 time? Not good. This aircraft is super nice and I do like it over the Mustang by far. Must be nice to live the dream. Thanks for NOT adding stupid music. This fighter speaks for itself.
In terms of this, vs British and US aircraft, the closest I can think of is the Spitfire MkXII. That would be a very interesting experiment.
The Spitfire MkXII was basically a clipped winged Spitfire MkV / VIII, powered by a single stage Griffon. Resulting in a highly manoeuvrable, very high performance low altitude fighter. I'd say extremely comparable the the Yak 3.
I haven’t seen Yak-3’s in while.
Have they smoothed over any wing armament, what guns would it have had?
Yak-3 originally didn't have them. It had 2 50.cal UB machine guns in the cowling and one 20mm ShVAK cannon on the propeller shaft, it had a version with 3 B20 cannons though. Soviet pilots usually hated wing mounted guns because of their convergence problem
Soviet ace Alexandr Pokryshkin flew a P39N (lend lease fighter) he had his planes wing mounted 50. cals removed because it also had nose mounted guns that can do the job. That pretty much shows the soviet doctrine. Guys preferred concentrated fire and accuracy over hit probability and hit count. It also made the fighter more nimble hence the machineguns weighed over 150kgs or 300 ish pounds.
Wonderful!
I wonder how its characteristics have changed with a non standard propeller and engine 🤔
About as much as a Sea Fury with the same differences or most of the replica FW 190's.
The 4 blade Aeroproducts propeller with the high activity T-28A blades (approx. 10 foot diameter) was used on several Reno racing aircraft (Tsunami, Stilletto), but they all had souped V-1650 Merlin racing engines. I doubt the Allison V-1710 in this Yak is generating more than 1,500 horsepower, so it has more prop efficiency than this engine needs. I would expect torque at take-off to be a bit gamier than with the modified, 3 blade Hamilton Standard DC-3 props they usually fly with.
У Як 3 был трехлопастный винт .
Там мотор не родной, от мустанга Packard V-1650, и винт такой же как у мустанга. Родной движок только в музее остался.
@@silushkadebilnaya "А ЦАРЬ - то не настоящий!!!( К/ф" Иван Васильевич меняет...")
И это не як3 а як9ум.. чертежи як9у за основу. Их выпустили партию для сертификации.. так как материалы другие и технологии сборки другие мотор тоже другой.. так что не як 3 это🤣🤣🤣🤣 як3 это русфанер... в оригинале примерно три машины в музеях..
@@владимирвасильев-д7д хер поймёшь, о чем ты ... Здесь играем , здесь не играем. . Здесь селёдку ( на чертежах) заворачиваем .. Вопрос один: сколько лопастей ? У всех оригиналов 3? Или ещё какие-то варианты были. Не путай меня. С праздником Победы!
Так и мотор ВК а не Мерлин ))
Great plane just short legs and altitude. They had only about an hour of fuel. They had to use airfields close to the front. As long as they didn't get caught on the ground the Germans were in trouble.
Nice video but quick question, is there a Lavochkin 7 still flying? I looked it up yesterday and I just found some rc model vids
No, there are only 2 left in the world and both are on static display...One is in the Czech Republic and the other is in Russia...There are couple of Yaks currently for sale that are flying...
the ultimate russian fighter.
i mean the LA 7
has to be
@@HochgeborenKlown
Thanks! A shame that there's not even a replica. Would have wanted to see/hear it
Engine startup: brap brap brap brap !!!
I would Love my car Sound like this
@@Warbirds
Your neighbors wouldn't :-)
@@charlesharper2357 for sure not
@@Warbirds
Buy an old and cheap BMW 750i they have a V12, just remove the mufflers and you have your unfiltered V12 war machine sound 😂
Good aircraft the yak 3 love it.
To call it a "russian mustang" is a bit weird, since both are nothing alike, but the video is nice
Also, the Yak layout precedes the Mustang. And by that I mean the Yak-1
Except overall configuration? Not many had the single ventral radiator.
Play it loud!
The engine has a good sound.
not the original engine Klimov105 who was totaly different
@@leneanderthalien Oh. Well, it still sounds nice but I would love to hear the original. 👍
Definitiv schöner als eine mustang 😊
Toller Fighter - ein richtig böses kleines Tier! Aber, wie gut war sie in originaler - (Engine/Propeller) - Konfiguration? Wieder mal lieber Gruß, und ein großes DANKE für deine Arbeit !!! Frank
Die Yak 3 mit dem originalen Klimov 105 (alias verbesserter Hispano Suiza Y12) wahr so schnell wie eine bf 109 der selben periode, aber VIEL vendiger...Der sehr bekannte Normandie Niemen staffel benutzte am meisten die yak 3 (auch Yak 1 und 9)
@@leneanderthalien DANKE !!!
Looks remarkably similar to a Martin Baker MB5. (By some accounts the best WWII propeller-driven fighter of WWII, but for several reassons was to not see production.) And very similar as well to the Mustang.
How come it can look similar to the airplane which made its first flight 5 years later? Yakovlev had long aircraft designing experience before Yak-3 which was the further development of Yak-1 which in its turn was developed from his previous aircrafts like AIR-7 (first flight in November 1930) and UT-1 (1935). All these aircrafts has Yakovlev's recognizable design pattern and it's stupid to say like this.
My favorite plane is a Focke-Wulf TA-152 H .
Is not soviet Mustang: for altitude of Mustang was MiG-3, and for autonomy range of Mustang was Yak-9 D (DD).
The Yak is far more similar to a Spitfire than a Mustang.
sweet airplane there!
So it’s actually a cross between a Spit and a Hurri...
no: inspired from the Dewoitine D520 and the VG33, inclusive the Hispano engine...
No. It is itself.
Russian Mustang? ^_^ The Yak-3's lineage(Yak-1) is actually older than the p-51's by almost a year, I think. I love them both. For the P51, I prefer the birdcage version.
Liked it because, as a kid models of the Russian planes were almost impossible to get. This was at the time when 1/72 models were .50-.75 each.
Most of the Yaks I’ve seen had Allison Engines with 3 Blade Props.
That most Definitely Looks, and Sounds like a Merlin.....4 Blade Prop!
Out of a Mustang ?
Prop is of Twin Mustang . Engine is Allison
@@Warbirds Wow!....Where did he find that prop? Has Tom Reilly tried to buy it ?
The ORIGINAL Yak's was NEVER fitted with Alison engines...
@@leneanderthalien of course not. But, the original Russian engines are pretty scarce!
The ones I’ve seen were at Planes of Fame in Chino, CA
I get a sad feeling the more of these that I watch. As with older humans, these planes are thinning out in numbers. I guess I kind of feel for the planes, not seeing around as many machines like itself.
This is YAK is with a modern 4 blades propeller and the engine is American...
A bit of Mustang, a bit of Spitfire, what!
Better looking than either. A good performer, too
Mustang looks like pregnant YAK 3
Please Yak-9D
Yakovlev Yak 9 Display at Hahnweide Airshow 2019
Short range, primarily for low altitude air superiority. Definitely not a Mustang.
IMHO, closer to Spitfire than a Mustang.
It does share the bubble canopy and underbelly air scoop though...
@@charlesharper2357
Starting around September 1943, there were versions of various marks of the Spitfire that had a bubble canopy.
@@Skyprince27
Yes, but the Spitfire never had an underbelly air scoop.
@@charlesharper2357
Yeah I know
Russian spitfire is what it looks like to me
With the belly radiator of the P51.
Just said, a bit of Mustang, a bit of Spitfire 😇
@@charlestellis7021 SpitYakStang
@@rc-fannl7364 there you have it 👍
@@rc-fannl7364 точно! Гибрид.
Low altitude US plane similar is the P-39. Not many planes could match the 'Cobra's performance in that arena. Why the Russian pilots liked it. It would outperform the Germans at those low levels
How many German pilots were shot down with Soviet aircraft and how many with American aircraft?
Well,.....except for the rounded tail and rounded wingtips.....
Well it almost looks like 👍 a mustang.
Yea it does
Be interesting to the YAK3 in flight with a Mustang just for the comparison, the YAK looks quite a bit smaller.
@@brucemitch928 According to Green and Swanborough's WW2 Aircraft Fact Files, the Yak-3 was the smallest and lightest fighter to see large scale operational service in WWII. Even more interesting is that the Mustang's Allison V1710s and Packard Merlins were 27_litres, and the Yak-3's original Klimov VK-107 was 35_litres. Interestingly, the Merlin is the heavier of the two engines.
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Thanks for that Howard, good to know these details 👍
I thought it was an Allison engine.
You are correct. The Yak 3s are powered by Allisons, as there are no more of the original Klimov engines.
@@MarsFKA Allison V 1710 was a Great engine. Even if at first the Rolls-Roys Merlin / Packard V 1650 surpassed it in performance, but by 1944 Allison caught up with it.
I would say Yak-9 is more like that.
The restaured or new built Yak's use Allison engines, but the ORIGINAL Yaks did NEVER use such engine, but Klimov 105 series engines who are improved evolutions from the Hispano Suiza Y12engines, the same who was under the hood from the french fighter Dewoitine D520, engines niknamed in France "moteur canon" (canon engine) because the 20mm Hispano canon was integrated between the cylinders from the engine and fire through the propeller shaft (not possible with a Allison), and the cooler was placed on the D520 under the fuselage a bit like the Mustang : USSR did buy the license from the Y12 before WW2...
The hawker tempest would have had the yak for breakfast it's less manoeuvrable but faster tougher and better armed in low to medium altitudes
P-51A-ski.
the Yak is not the spit or the Mustang the mustang was built for escort of the bombers , the spit is an interceptor for high altitude , th Yak is built for to clean the sky upper the battelfield before the danse of the stourmoviks , after the war the french fighter squadron Normandie Niemen gone back in france , with more 270 victories for 41 casualities training and accidents , VS the best german pilots of th Luftwaffe , all the french pilots of the western front flyed few minutes on the Yak 3 , every body préfered .... the Yak 3 , later th french pilots of the group took the NC900 , and they understood why they stilled alive , the Yak 3 was as true FW 190 A slayer , the Flying T34 , or a ppsh41 for the street fight , the best tool , today the allisson V12 still heavyer than the Klimov and a fight between a P51 allisson and a YaK 3 is lost for the mustang th Belle P39 is better
Can you say that copy from the Spitfire to the 109 to the P51 copy much
nope P51 is a BIG and powerfull long range fighter, yak 3 (and 1) was small and lightweight and had much less power, less than the Spitfire same era...but achieve similar speeds because design the best to use the power...
@@leneanderthalien well yeah back then that have problems with range everything the Russians had didn't have no range but as you look at it there all water cool inline engines but you're right the P51 was the one that broke the backbone of the luftwaffe
Sure doesn't sound like an Allison! It has quite a bark and growl similar to a Merlin........
No, not NEAR enough range for that. More like a Russian Spitfire
Not a Mustang....maybe a jack ass ski....however, it had some respectable attributes
Rustang?
😂
Yak-3 + Allison engine = deth to Messershmitts, Fokke-Wulfs, Junkerss, Heinkels ecc.
Did any Yakovlev fighter had an Allison engine in ww2? So far as i know, they all had Klimov engines.
@@Juno58 No. Only Klimov’s М-105, M-107. It was just my fantasy: "If only."
This protected the russia motherland
Calling the Yak 3 ”russian Mustang” would mean this is a bad plane 🙃
Ah no
yak3 with allison but wasnt that allison in p51 tossed out in favor of merlin,wouldnt Russians have used their Klimov 1100hp v12 pre war hisso licensee with out updated superchargers ,ie
prewar went into morane saulnier of that era.
Klimov 105 engine was a evolution from the Hispano Suiza Y12 engine (USSR did buy the license before WW2): evolutions was far more than only supercharging...
@@leneanderthalien figured Russian,s must have run with the engineering ball so to speak ,same with radial in lag 7 what was given under license Curtis wright cyclone that army air Corp rejected.
Is that true that the Soviet planes it comes with hand-paint gunsights?!😆😆
Early in the war they did, but that was because they were really unprepared and were throwing everything into the sky to try and stop the nazis...
@CTizer90 "In his first year of operational service, (Erich) Hartmann felt a distinct lack of respect towards Soviet pilots. Most Soviet fighters did not even have effective gunsights and their pilots, some cases in the early weeks, were forced to draw one on the windscreen by hand: "In the early days, incredible as it may seem, there was no reason for you to feel fear if the Russian fighter was behind you. With their hand-painted gunsights they couldn't pull the lead properly (deflection shooting) or hit you."...Kaplan, Philip (2007). Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe in World War II.
@@HochgeborenKlown Look at the Battle of Kursk. Russians gave everything. Why would it be different here?
@CTizer90 Of course...I guess that among the 46,000+ VVS fighters lost during WW2 the nazis were not able to recover a single one and had to rely on captured Soviet pilots to explain it to them...Keep reaching...
Agree fully. When the 8TH AF did the publicity stunt of a bomber mission deep into Eastern Europe a number of 51's could not make the return trip. Airframe stress, engine loss, and metal fatigue caused a number of them to be given to the Russians, our "Allies". This allowed the Russians to reverse engineer and upgrade the Yak & Lav family of fighters. They did the same with the B-29's. Just took them a bit longer with the Bombers.
nope this is not true, the Yaks was never copied on americano-english fighters, but on french fighters because same engine type and relative low power
@@leneanderthalien "nope this is not not true" What a true Aviation historian counterpoint! No caps lock? Even better though copied from the French! What? Pre - War? GEEZE, Go to the library
Where did you get this bullshit, America-firster? In 1942 under the Lend-Lease programm 10 Mustangs were provided to USSR, which were tested by the Air Force Research Institute for review. Those planes were found to be unusable. There were no further deliveries of the P-51 to the USSR.
Also they always were of no interest for Soviet engineers in contrast with B-29's which actually was developed by international team of engineers, gathered together by US goverment.
Yak 3 - Low altitude, short range. Mustang - High altitude, long range. Hmmmmm ....
look similar arent they
Совершенно несравнимые машины. Як-3 чистый истребитель, для завоевания господства в воздухе. Мустанг самолет для сопровождения бомбардировщиков, должен летать далеко и высоко.
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Das ist kein Flugplatz sondern ein Acker..wie die Hahnweide..auch so ein Acker
Jak-3 of whe Mustang? Jak(Як-3) buffalo...(avia-mul !)))
Сам Buffalo. Ишак.
Germans see Yak over their country: "Oh, shit, not again!"
😂🖖
Looks like the offspring of a Spitfire & a Hurricane if anything,nowt like a Mustang,just look at the styling,the undercarriage,the shape of the tail & cockpit ffs anybody with a modicum of knowledge of ww2 aircraft can see it
If you really had any modicum of knowledge of ww2 aircraft you would not write such a bullshit. Yak-3 was based on Yak-9 which in its turn was based on Yak-1. And Yak-1 was developed from UT-2 (first flight in 1935) and AIR-7 (first flight in 1932) from whom all Yaks got their shape of the tail & cockpit.
Мотор не родной ….
Конечно не родной. И самолет не настоящий. Это переделка из учебно-тренировочного ЯК-11.Созданного на базе ЯК-3. Просто установили двигатель жидкостного охлаждения Allison V-1710. Да еще и винт четырехлопастной поставили.Летающих ЯКов и ЛАвок нет. Не сохранили.
The Yak-3 was superior to both the Mustang and Spitfire.
@@mylakay100 Я бы их не сравнивал. P-51B-K Mustangs и Spitfire Mk IX - это выдающиеся истребители сопровождения бомбардировщиков и против бомбардировщиков, на высоких эшелонах. Як-3 - это истребитель истребителей. До 12.5 км он поднимался, конечно. Но главная его задача - защита фронта от штурмовиков и истребителей.
К примеру, скорость набора 5000 м на P-51 около 9.0 минут, а на Як-3 всего 3.8 минуты ... Вот и разница.
И как бы я не любил Мустанг за его удобство, а Спитфайр за пилотаж, при встрече с Як-3 я бы ретировался пикированием и в бой не вступал. Оставалось либо стрельба на встречных курсах, либо сверху сзади в пикировании со стороны Солнца. Ну, или надеяться встретить необученного слепого глухого одинокого пилота без вооружения и топлива.
Як-3, на тот момент поршневой без ракетной авиации, это превосходство по всем характеристикам истребительного боя.
К сожалению их не осталось уже. В музее Ле Бурже стоит один, настоящий боевой борт Нормандии-Неман, ... экспонат.
@@vasilsarayev Мы не можем объединить P51 и Yak 3, P51 был большим охотником с очень большой дальностью, в то время как Yak 3 был маленьким и легким охотником, вдохновленным французской моделью легкого охотника Dewoitine D551 и VG33, которые в качестве напоминания использовали тот же тип двигателя, что и Як 3, а именно Hispano Suiza Y12 (Климов 105 - это эволюция)
@@leneanderthalien Maybe. All planes are similar to the plane of the Wright brothers.
However, as a pilot to engineer, Dewoitine looks more like the Mig-1 and Mig-3 than the Yak-3. And it is unlikely that the engineers of great France in 1939 would have used tarpaulin, plywood and chromensil to create a fighter, and an engine with a motor life of 25 hours. As for the sizes of Yak-3 and P51, they are approximately comparable, equal. What can not be said about the dynamic, flight characteristics of these fighters.