Quoting from Wikipedia: "Marcel Albert, World War II French ace, who flew the Yak-3 in USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft when compared to the P-51D Mustang and the Supermarine Spitfire"
Yes, because they knew how to fly it and exploit the enemies weaknesses using the planes strenghts, Yak-3 definitely sits at the top, along with the Tempest, Stangs, Spits, 190's and 109's.
@@LordDathka out turning isn't the goal though. Every biplane could outturn a 109, yet you don't see many biplanes fighting in WWII. Point was, that Yak-3 was light, which means it didn't lose speed that much, and could regain it relatively quickly thanks to its engine. It was good at everything, but perfect at nothing. Classic jack of all trades. La-7 was a real tide turner imo, that plane was really good, and often even less known than the Yak series.
It's amazing that we can see aircraft like the Yak-3 flying today. Not that long ago it would have been inconceivable. The aircraft restoration business has gone in to overdrive in the last twenty years or so. I hope we will get to see that other great Soviet fighter, the Lavochkin La-5FN, one day.
WW2 Yaks and MiG-3s have wooden construction as well and you can see them flying (only post WW2 Yak-9s had metal construction). There are even I-16s flying today and those also had fabric covered wooden frames in the wings.
@@TheMazo02 Not at all, the Yak-3 is a modified glider from the Yak-9, which in turn received a glider from the Yak-7 and Yak-1. And the Yakov family began with sports and training aircraft, how interesting is the story, the best fighters of the Second World War were made by designers who were not so keen on military affairs. Yak-1 got its glider before the Spitfire)))
@@TheMazo02 bruh not even remotely close the Yakovlev Yak-3 is soviet through and through, not a British spitfire lmfao, you do not know your planes bud
Yes, perfect, and no "stopped" propellors (hate those pointless videos where the camera makes the prop appear to stop or go backwards - just weird - distracting )
Too bloody right. (I thought that engine sounded Allisonesque or Merlinesque. Suits it though.) Impressive rate of roll with those tapered wings. Good video.
Un Autre Point de vue En effet. And offered by Joseph Stalin to the pilots as reward when they left the squadron to back to France. A shame we didn't mothball all these birds in the Bourget Air Museum. Verily, tis a shame.
@@Briselance Si je ne dis pas de bêtise il y a un exemplaire dans un musée français, les autres ont d'abord été versés dans un escadron de chasse puis dans le temps cannibalisés pour récupérer des pièces pour en garder en état de voler ... Puis la guerre froide à fait le reste ... Ils ont du finir hélas chez un ferrailleur... Mais le groupe de chasse Normandie-Niemen existe toujours mais vole sur Rafale...If I don't say stupid, there is a copy in a French museum, the others were first poured into a fighter squadron and then in cannibalized time to recover parts to keep them in a state of flight... Then the Cold War did the rest... Unfortunately, they had to end up in a scrap metal shop... But the Normandy-Niemen hunting group still exists but flies on the Rafale....
No pilot in any air force in WW2 would have quibbled about flying an aircraft that performed like a Yak 3. One suspects that some people don't want to admit the excellent aircraft design skills that always existed in the Soviet Union. In fact, in view of the political structures there it is all the more amazing that they achieved anything !
Yeah with its low wing rip speed and build out of wood XD. No but seriously if a plane has the energy advantage it the upper hand and that was mostly the time with their enemy being the German planes which were told to climb at least to 5000 meters.
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 And yet they do not dare to come down under 5000m LOL I guess that made sure IL2s had a happy day striking german ground forces
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 LOL, and yet below 5000m, the fw190 was outmatched by Yak3 both in maneuverability and flight speed While BF110s on the other hand, is an unfair match. Because Bf110 is an heavy fighter, and yet Yak3 was a light fighter
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 I would quote from a former Luftwaffe commander (Walter Schwabedissen) . He once wrote in his book [Russian air force in the eyes of german commanders]": ‘Whereas the German Bf109G and Fw190 models were equal to any of the aforementioned Soviet fighter models in all respects, this cannot be said of the Soviet Yak-3, which made its first appearance at the front in the late Summer of 1944. This aeroplane was faster, more manoeuvrable and had better climbing capabilities than the Bf109G and Fw190, to which it was inferior only in armament’."
I am so jealous of the mechanics that make all this work. Their skill is unbelievable. There's no manual for these planes anymore. No easy "guide" to follow. I wish I knew how to fix cars and planes.
Вот бы нашим олигархам заняться чем подобным! Восстановили бы несколько старых военных самолётов. Поршневых. А то скучно на паяльные лампы смотреть. Неплохие шоу поршневых самолетов получились бы в России.
@@RomanKurilov1982 это новодел як9ум партию на заказ сделали движки аллисон.. французский в музее...🤣🤣🤣 еще один як3 в америке... его из кб яковлева менеджеры в 90 продали...
You can clearly see why it was one of the outstanding fighters of WW2, with those beautiful, clean, aerodynamic, lines, compact, lightweight and very strong construction and a powerful V12 up front.
I heard this fighter was called "Airborne Private" as it was a soldier plane. Robust, small sized agile dogfighter easily manufactured in the country overwhelmed by war.
а их и не сохраняли, последний оригинальный Як-3 НН стоит у них в музее (и то благодаря тому, что бывший пилот НН нашел его на какой-то свалке). просто в 90-х КБ Яковлева выпустило несколько коллекционных машин, но они, во-первых, были цельнометаллическими, а, во-вторых, на них стоял не оригинальный М-105ПФ2, а американский Allison V-1710
Congrates to the film producer and to the pilot who did some nice aerobatics. I have a picture of me next to a Yak in Novosibirsk. Not sure what it was but if I make another trip I will check.
Hi guys, I wonder if any of you could help me. I'm trying to know if you can actually see blue flames from the exhaust of a warbird (any) with you naked eye (not trough a camera) while on fly, not during starting the engine. Thank you.
This plane was so underrated' it had the tighest turning raduis of any ww2 fighter' the german pilots were told not to mess with this bad ass with the under lying radiator cooler ' they feared it above all other russian fighters.
@@KierowcaBombowca88 yeah, they were a series of Yak-3’s and 9’s that were made at the Yak factory by some of the original workers. My father actually owns White 100 (bunch of videos on UA-cam of it when it was still in England). Neat airplanes. Unfortunately the Klimov engines are incredibly rare…
Thank you very much for the information about the power rating of current Yak 3's. I think it roughly corresponds to the power rating of wartime Yak 1's.
Yakovlev Yak-3 is the warbird that become so superior in the sky of the Eastern Front during the war. It is nice to witness that there are some few flying worthy of this type of old combat aircraft on this present day.
Damn good plane! The Yaks were up to par with everything the rest of the world was producing at the time, save the Mustang with its laminar flow wing. But it performed beyond expectations and saved Russia!
The challenge for Russia was training pilots who could mix it up with Luftwaffe and survive > The flight training for Soviet Frontal aviation must have been very rudimentary and i bet many pilots never survived more than 5 hrs in air . Erich Hartmann JG 51 with a ME 109 seemed to swat aircraft out of sky almost daily . greatest ace ever with 251 Victories almost all on Eastern front .. Knight's cross , Oak leaves and Diamonds . Survived the war .
The Mustang wing was _intended_ to be laminar flow but in reality it was not. Certainly it was designed to be but the manufacturing techniques needed to produce a truly laminar flow wing did not come about until after the war.
@@2good2oftenOh yes, if you don't know one funny fact. If you add up the accounts of the German pilots, it turns out that they destroyed all Soviet aviation at least three times. And that means that ghosts fought with them for most of the war. 🤣 But seriously: German aviation is the only one that does not have official statistics. And their victories were confirmed using movie cameras on the plane. Which is what they used. For example, there is a known case when four German planes in 1941 took turns firing at a single-seat Soviet attack aircraft and then left. As a result, the attack aircraft flew home, and the German pilots recorded four victories for themselves. It's that simple.)
What happened to the supply of Klimow-WK-107A V12 engine that made it necessary for Yak-3s flying today to use the Allison V12? Seems logical that some of them should still be available. Dropping 410 HP is no small issue.
All the Yak3 are new builds from the factory they had the jigs and plans and the American Allison engines were in plentiful supply in the US. It was a deal with an American company.
Something interesting I learnt few days ago. Where I live there was Soviet pilot who was fighting in WW2 flying this plane(or it was La not sure)and he had same name as me.
As much as I love those Allison engines, I'd be ecstatic to hear what those original Klimovs sound like. Doubtful anybody has heard them for the last 60 years.
Airyanem Vaejah Not sure. There were other regiments placing arrows on their planes, Normandie-Niemen was outstanding mostly by their noses being colored like a french flag
Airyanem Vaejah . Если это копия самолёта полка Нормандия Неман,то у него кок винта должен быть трёхцветным. А вообще то это истребитель Як 3 ВК 107А и в войне он не участвовал.
I presume that HP figure you gave for the Allison V-1720 is for an engine that's effectively de-tuned; running on lower-octane fuel with less manifold pressure than they did under combat conditions, right?
Fast cheap to build most probably, lightly armed, but manoeuvrable.Good visability, good dogfighter, has some power to the engine. Look at the Junkers ju52 going past at 5:25
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 with 109s? Those are pre-war planes against the brand spankingest new design of the war. Yak-3s had fantastic records against 109 for the most part (excepting the occasional German phenome but by that point in the war most of the really good aces were dead).
@@tomaspabon2484 what point of the war? And still one of the last kills of the war was a yak being shot down by Erich Hartmann in a bf109 k4. Alone this single kill facts that what you are saying isn't true at all. The bf109s were perfect fighter planes. So were the yaks. BUT the engine performance at high altitude favoured the 109s which they could use to control the fight. That's why they were often victorious and shot down many yaks. Being above an enemy means a massive advantage. Hope you at least know that. Also many ace fighters were still living if you go after the definition of an ace being a person achieving at least 5 victories. Which surprise surprise was very common in the LW. Just look up the ace counter of ww2 in Wikipedia or some other websites. I like yaks. I like 109s And in the end it's about the pilots flying them. But your just ignoring simple air strategies
@@tomaspabon2484 that would make no sense if you basically said: yeah the 109s were pre war planes against the new west super yak 3s. And those gar Fantastic records against the 109s. Except when they got fucked every single time when the German was above them. Bro you basically outargued yourself.
The problem is just how soviets used to name their planes. Yak-1, Yak-3, Yak-7 and Yak-9 are essencially the same airplane but with improvements and variants. If it was named like Spitfire that were produced the entire war with dozen of variants it would be easier to understand the plane enrolment today
The Russians had no need for a high altitude interceptor or escort fighter, so they loved naturally aspirated V-12s, which outperformed the Merlins at low altitude. They even loved the Aircobra and King Cobra.
Hi there, Just wondering if I could use some of the clips from this video to use in a top 10 airplanes video for my youtube channel about airplanes. Thank you.
1) This is a Yak-9P 2) Not all Yak-3 had the VK-107 engine (really unreliable, but still... very powerful) 3) This is a crime pusnished with gulag to put a capitalist engine in a soviet plane !
It's a Yak-3, you can check by the canopy shape. It has an intake in the upper cowling like the Yak-9U/P, but this is because of the Allison engine, also the intake is different in the late Yak-9s with the VK-107 (U and P).
No, this is NOT Yak-9. Nines had framed canopy windshield. It is a pity that the lines of original are spoiled by some air intake on the top front cowling and the spinner is somewhat too long and pointy (but that's probably because of engine).
Soviets developers are so poor... originally they took hispano suiza y12 and what they got? Yes, piece of shit. It only could work on us petroleum 95, because soviets couldn't make this type of fuel. That's why all of their success reached after 1943 when Germans were recalled back to protect their country. Most of success on aircobra. Whose plane is it?
Not yet watch the original, the FIAT G55 Centauro with DB 603 engine: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/FIAT_G-55_Centauro_%281%29.jpg/1200px-FIAT_G-55_Centauro_%281%29.jpg
an error in the description: the most Yak 3 use the klimov M105 PF2, the Klimov 107 and 108 was relative unreliable and use only in a small number at end of the war.The Klimov engine was a evolution from the french Hispano Suiza Y12 use in the Morane 406 and Dewoitine D520 because the soviet union did buy the license before the war...And the radiator system is similar as on the Dewoitine D520...
AWESOME! Sound of the engine apart - it was the AERODYNAMICS that made this plane so great. It could stall in mid-air and regain its flight posture immediately - as a matter of fact that was one of the manouvers they would teach you in the red army pilot regiments. It has been said that this was one of the best (if not THE best) fighters of the 2nd WW - this along the "Lavochkin" series - La5/La5F/La5FN/La5FN3B20... and oh, yeah! - the Yak-9U ... but THIS ONE was at the CUTTING EDGE. It would have been used for many years even after the war.
Sehr schön. Il est superbe et n'a rien à envier aux spitfire ou aux mustang. C'est comme ses homologues, un très beau avion. J'ai toujours une pensée pour tous les pilotes des deux camps qui sont morts en combat dans ces belles machines. Quel gâchis cette guerre. Les Européens ne s'en sont jamais remis.
Video with the right kind of music: the sound of big bore V12 engines! Hope all the idiots who add some crappy noice they think enhance the video would learn from this. Brilliant video of brilliant plane!
Definelly the best fighter in the east front, at least until late German designs and modifications took place. The design is very pleasant for the eyes as well.
I have a technical question: - Video says this Yak uses V12 engine. Also, F1 cars (especially Ferrari) from 1995 used V12 engines. Then why does this sound like low pitched grunting, while the Ferraris screamed in a shrill high pitch? What factor of engine design is responsible for difference in noise?
These Warbird engines have much higher cubic capacity which is about 28 liters on this engine and also run on lower rpm. Car V12`s, especially F1 have engines with relatively low cubic capacity, so the 1995 F1 cars had only 3 liters. Just different size and speed for the whole machinery.
***** More questions: Why the focus on low rpm? Doesn't the aircraft engine have to continuously operate at a high power for efficient flight speeds? Or am I missing the torque factor here?
Quoting from Wikipedia: "Marcel Albert, World War II French ace, who flew the Yak-3 in USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft when compared to the P-51D Mustang and the Supermarine Spitfire"
It actually one of the best casualties/air battle ratios against Luftwaffe
Pretty much every pilot in the war claims that whatever he flew was the shit while everything else was inferior. Proves nothing.
Yes, because they knew how to fly it and exploit the enemies weaknesses using the planes strenghts, Yak-3 definitely sits at the top, along with the Tempest, Stangs, Spits, 190's and 109's.
Yak 3 never gets the recognition it deserves. The best WWII fighter. Can out turn any ME109.
@@LordDathka out turning isn't the goal though. Every biplane could outturn a 109, yet you don't see many biplanes fighting in WWII.
Point was, that Yak-3 was light, which means it didn't lose speed that much, and could regain it relatively quickly thanks to its engine. It was good at everything, but perfect at nothing. Classic jack of all trades.
La-7 was a real tide turner imo, that plane was really good, and often even less known than the Yak series.
Beautiful airplane, very elegant lines! One of the very best fighter planes in ww2. Greetings from Germany!
All ww2 plane looks same to me
@@gioaxe4538 So you think it looks like a Sunderland flying boat ?
One of the most under appreciated WW2 fighters imo
Поверь фашисты и нацисты его хорошо оценили
@@ПётрЦыганов-р4м ты уж определись кто конкретно - нацисты или фашисты)
@@ПётрЦыганов-р4м я вижу один передо мной прямо сейчас. отбросы.
@@JamesSchettlerа что, сильно большая разница между этими поцами?
109 >>>>
For French pilots, the aircraft were very popular.
The French pilot with JAKs also flew to the winning parade in Paris in 1945.
Yes: the Normandie Niemen pilots were very successful and were allowed to keep their Yaks after the war.
Thank you. My dad was pilot fighter in 1944-45 on this Bird. Danke! Спасибо!
your dad was fighting for naziz...thank him!!!
tuomo heiskanen uhm i thing you meant against the Nazis instead of for
Da - SPASIBO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YaK-3 - it's a Soviet plane
So, your dad was a Hero of Soviet Union! It's an honor to meet you!
It's amazing that we can see aircraft like the Yak-3 flying today. Not that long ago it would have been inconceivable. The aircraft restoration business has gone in to overdrive in the last twenty years or so. I hope we will get to see that other great Soviet fighter, the Lavochkin La-5FN, one day.
Tim Richardson 5fn had wooden construction.They could not be saved.Except museums.But who knows...
WW2 Yaks and MiG-3s have wooden construction as well and you can see them flying (only post WW2 Yak-9s had metal construction). There are even I-16s flying today and those also had fabric covered wooden frames in the wings.
А на изготовление Ла-5 дерева не напасёшься. Правда, инструментов надо не много - пила и рубанок.
The Yak 3 is a very pretty plane, I love the looks of it.
Spitfire family
@@TheMazo02 Not at all, the Yak-3 is a modified glider from the Yak-9, which in turn received a glider from the Yak-7 and Yak-1. And the Yakov family began with sports and training aircraft, how interesting is the story, the best fighters of the Second World War were made by designers who were not so keen on military affairs. Yak-1 got its glider before the Spitfire)))
@@TheMazo02 bruh not even remotely close the Yakovlev Yak-3 is soviet through and through, not a British spitfire lmfao, you do not know your planes bud
Ye gods, glorious 60 frames and no music! Thanks for sharing Paddy.
Yes, perfect, and no "stopped" propellors (hate those pointless videos where the camera makes the prop appear to stop or go backwards - just weird - distracting )
Too bloody right. (I thought that engine sounded Allisonesque or Merlinesque. Suits it though.) Impressive rate of roll with those tapered wings. Good video.
Firefly ...yeah I get the music thing. For some reason we seem to need loud music everywhere.
OH YESSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!
And I cannot see a very slowly rotating prop. It is but a blur !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fighter aircraft of free french pilots from Normandie-Niémen
Un Autre Point de vue
En effet. And offered by Joseph Stalin to the pilots as reward when they left the squadron to back to France.
A shame we didn't mothball all these birds in the Bourget Air Museum.
Verily, tis a shame.
@@Briselance Si je ne dis pas de bêtise il y a un exemplaire dans un musée français, les autres ont d'abord été versés dans un escadron de chasse puis dans le temps cannibalisés pour récupérer des pièces pour en garder en état de voler ... Puis la guerre froide à fait le reste ... Ils ont du finir hélas chez un ferrailleur... Mais le groupe de chasse Normandie-Niemen existe toujours mais vole sur Rafale...If I don't say stupid, there is a copy in a French museum, the others were first poured into a fighter squadron and then in cannibalized time to recover parts to keep them in a state of flight... Then the Cold War did the rest... Unfortunately, they had to end up in a scrap metal shop... But the Normandy-Niemen hunting group still exists but flies on the Rafale....
No pilot in any air force in WW2 would have quibbled about flying an aircraft that performed like a Yak 3. One suspects that some people don't want to admit the excellent aircraft design skills that always existed in the Soviet Union. In fact, in view of the political structures there it is all the more amazing that they achieved anything !
Yeah with its low wing rip speed and build out of wood XD. No but seriously if a plane has the energy advantage it the upper hand and that was mostly the time with their enemy being the German planes which were told to climb at least to 5000 meters.
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 And yet they do not dare to come down under 5000m LOL
I guess that made sure IL2s had a happy day striking german ground forces
@@shermanfirefly5410 no the bf110s or the fw190s had
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 LOL, and yet below 5000m, the fw190 was outmatched by Yak3 both in maneuverability and flight speed
While BF110s on the other hand, is an unfair match. Because Bf110 is an heavy fighter, and yet Yak3 was a light fighter
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 I would quote from a former Luftwaffe commander (Walter Schwabedissen) . He once wrote in his book [Russian air force in the eyes of german commanders]": ‘Whereas the German Bf109G and Fw190 models were equal to any of the aforementioned Soviet fighter models in all respects, this cannot be said of the Soviet Yak-3, which made its first appearance at the front in the late Summer of 1944. This aeroplane was faster, more manoeuvrable and had better climbing capabilities than the Bf109G and Fw190, to which it was inferior only in armament’."
I can feel the bias entering my veins
I'm picking up what you're putting down
russian bias again eh
NOT a copy of the Mustang, contrary to popular belief. It was a development of the Yak-1, which predated the Mustang.
@soaringtractor nope. Yak-1 was PRODUCED since 1940. other yaks are evolution. don't be dumb
@soaringtractor i didn't knew that planes are constructed around radiator lol. u'd better sit quiet, kid.
@soaringtractor you're so dumb that my bear made a powerful-ass facpalm.
@soaringtractor little fool. now google Yak-1 and see that russians put that radiator there in 1940, lol. way earlier than p-51
has remnants of the spitfire thats so obvious.
But yak 3cannot look like a P51 because it was developed before the P 51
Markel Alagoz i'd wish them read history of both planes)
@soaringtractor dumb dog. Yak-3 is a modification of Yak-1, it was produced waaaay earlier than P-51
@soaringtractor grow up.
@@player1GR Yak1M indeed
So the p 51 looks like the yak 3
I am so jealous of the mechanics that make all this work. Their skill is unbelievable. There's no manual for these planes anymore. No easy "guide" to follow. I wish I knew how to fix cars and planes.
It's a good looking fighter.
From a distance, if you see it first time, you may think that this is some kind of spitfire.
ofc
I used to think that every wwii fighter was a spitfire
Lonely Pilot jajajajajaj I used to think every aircraft was a FW 190, since it was the one I feared the most when I played War Thunder arcade battles.
@@HawkerMkIII Yak 3 with the dual 20 mm's and v12 power. FW gets a run for it's money against that type of power. Such an underrated fighter.
Прекрасен!!! Звук двигателей чего стоит. Спасибо тем, кто восстановил самолёт.
Он не восстановлен. Просто французы его сохранили. Этот один из Яков который был подарен лётчикам эскадрильи Нормандия-Неман.
Вот бы нашим олигархам заняться чем подобным! Восстановили бы несколько старых военных самолётов. Поршневых. А то скучно на паяльные лампы смотреть. Неплохие шоу поршневых самолетов получились бы в России.
@@RomanKurilov1982 это новодел як9ум партию на заказ сделали движки аллисон.. французский в музее...🤣🤣🤣 еще один як3 в америке... его из кб яковлева менеджеры в 90 продали...
Wow! What a wonderful treat it is to sit here as the snow falls outside and watch this bird soar. Great video, thanks!!!
You can clearly see why it was one of the outstanding fighters of WW2, with those beautiful, clean, aerodynamic, lines, compact, lightweight and very strong construction and a powerful V12 up front.
We should all be thankful to see these machines still flying today......even if it means using other engines etc...
Brave men died on all sides.
С немецкой стороны умирали военные преступники.
No old Yak 3s flying. New production. www.platinumfighters.com/yak3m
A communist talking about war crimes?? Priceless!
the shot at 2:50 is just spectacular
What a great engine sound the YAK3 has, much much better than in the IL2 simulation :D
Yak 3 originally used the Klimow-WK-105PF2 V12 engine. Yak-3 WK-107 was an experimental non-production fighter, like the Yak-3 with 3x20mm guns, etc.
I heard this fighter was called "Airborne Private" as it was a soldier plane. Robust, small sized agile dogfighter easily manufactured in the country overwhelmed by war.
Спасибо что сохранили и восстановили !!!!!
а их и не сохраняли, последний оригинальный Як-3 НН стоит у них в музее (и то благодаря тому, что бывший пилот НН нашел его на какой-то свалке). просто в 90-х КБ Яковлева выпустило несколько коллекционных машин, но они, во-первых, были цельнометаллическими, а, во-вторых, на них стоял не оригинальный М-105ПФ2, а американский Allison V-1710
I love the lines, so clean :)
Congrates to the film producer and to the pilot who did some nice aerobatics. I have a picture of me next to a Yak in Novosibirsk. Not sure what it was but if I make another trip I will check.
Nice show, very smooth manuevers. Great roll ability.
Yak-3 originally used the VK-105PF2 1240hp.
Hi guys, I wonder if any of you could help me.
I'm trying to know if you can actually see blue flames from the exhaust of a warbird (any) with you naked eye (not trough a camera) while on fly, not during starting the engine.
Thank you.
at night no problem
Hurf hard time
I've already see some on a Skyraider at airshow. He was taxying
Only 596 were built with VK-105PF2. Others - with other engines, mostly VK-107
false, the VK107 was extensively use on Yak 9 not on Yak 3 (less than100 Yak3 built with VK107, on 4818 Yak 3 produced , near all with M105/VK105)
Anybody saw that smoke ring at 0:05 ?
well, I did ;)
yep
пустил кольцо как будто закурил
Handsome plane, beautiful sound.
Wow! Love how the Soviets put a star on its nose!
Have seen one of these doing a flying display and it's fantastic. It looks so fast and clean in the air.
I knew they were small, but next to other fighters, wow! that really shows this was a compact fighter.
This plane was so underrated' it had the tighest turning raduis of any ww2 fighter' the german pilots were told not to mess with this bad ass with the under lying radiator cooler ' they feared it above all other russian fighters.
Коментарий от засранца который понятия не имеет о радиусе разворота зависящего только от скорости и крена.
V12 sound = heaven! No stupid music = heaven cloud 9!
A masterpiece!!!This Allison engine sounds so beautiful!!!
Its not a allison its a kilmov my friend
@@KierowcaBombowca88it’s a 90’s reproduction. It’s 100% an Allison V-1710.
@@Douganchesner yeah but the original had a klimov in it , i didin't know it was a reproduction.
Thanks
@@KierowcaBombowca88 yeah, they were a series of Yak-3’s and 9’s that were made at the Yak factory by some of the original workers. My father actually owns White 100 (bunch of videos on UA-cam of it when it was still in England). Neat airplanes. Unfortunately the Klimov engines are incredibly rare…
Thank you very much for the information about the power rating of current Yak 3's. I think it roughly corresponds to the power rating of wartime Yak 1's.
Yakovlev Yak-3 is the warbird that become so superior in the sky of the Eastern Front during the war. It is nice to witness that there are some few flying worthy of this type of old combat aircraft on this present day.
Nice looking plane. Very agile as well.
Danke für´s zeigen! Thanks for sharing! Cheers from Germany!
Damn good plane! The Yaks were up to par with everything the rest of the world was producing at the time, save the Mustang with its laminar flow wing. But it performed beyond expectations and saved Russia!
The challenge for Russia was training pilots who could mix it up with Luftwaffe and survive > The flight training for Soviet Frontal aviation must have been very rudimentary and i bet many pilots never survived more than 5 hrs in air . Erich Hartmann JG 51 with a ME 109 seemed to swat aircraft out of sky almost daily .
greatest ace ever with 251 Victories almost all on Eastern front .. Knight's cross , Oak leaves and Diamonds . Survived the war .
I think you mean 352 but it doesn't change the point. And you're right.
Yak 3 and Mustangs were designed for different roles. One is a low altitude dogfighter, the other is long range escort plane.
The Mustang wing was _intended_ to be laminar flow but in reality it was not. Certainly it was designed to be but the manufacturing techniques needed to produce a truly laminar flow wing did not come about until after the war.
@@2good2oftenOh yes, if you don't know one funny fact. If you add up the accounts of the German pilots, it turns out that they destroyed all Soviet aviation at least three times. And that means that ghosts fought with them for most of the war. 🤣 But seriously: German aviation is the only one that does not have official statistics. And their victories were confirmed using movie cameras on the plane. Which is what they used. For example, there is a known case when four German planes in 1941 took turns firing at a single-seat Soviet attack aircraft and then left. As a result, the attack aircraft flew home, and the German pilots recorded four victories for themselves. It's that simple.)
Yak3 is a beast in dogfighting. The go-to plane when I am playing IL-2 years ago.
Airplane porn! What an awesome sound!!! Thanks for sharing
Looks exceptionally maneuverable. More stats would have been nice.
What happened to the supply of Klimow-WK-107A V12 engine that made it necessary for Yak-3s flying today to use the Allison V12? Seems logical that some of them should still be available. Dropping 410 HP is no small issue.
All the Yak3 are new builds from the factory they had the jigs and plans and the American Allison engines were in plentiful supply in the US. It was a deal with an American company.
That's a beautiful looking plane.
A work of art
Such a good looking fighter!
Something interesting I learnt few days ago.
Where I live there was Soviet pilot who was fighting in WW2 flying this plane(or it was La not sure)and he had same name as me.
As much as I love those Allison engines, I'd be ecstatic to hear what those original Klimovs sound like. Doubtful anybody has heard them for the last 60 years.
Why, when a video of a lovely old aircraft gets uploaded, do some people love to start talking shit?
fighter nom. 5 of Normandie-Niemen regiment (Нормандия - Неман) 04:43? Cool!
Да, это Нормандия-Неман. Полк жив до сих пор и летает.
Urzhum p
Airyanem Vaejah Not sure. There were other regiments placing arrows on their planes, Normandie-Niemen was outstanding mostly by their noses being colored like a french flag
Airyanem Vaejah . Если это копия самолёта полка Нормандия Неман,то у него кок винта должен быть трёхцветным. А вообще то это истребитель Як 3 ВК 107А и в войне он не участвовал.
Damn nice piece of kit!.
I think I saw one a long time ago, but I didn't pay much attention to it on the flightline. I hope to see one fly someday.
I presume that HP figure you gave for the Allison V-1720 is for an engine that's effectively de-tuned; running on lower-octane fuel with less manifold pressure than they did under combat conditions, right?
Wow awesome . This looks more nimble than a Spifire
Just saw one today at an air show. Nice deep purr!
Fast cheap to build most probably, lightly armed, but manoeuvrable.Good visability, good dogfighter, has some power to the engine. Look at the Junkers ju52 going past at 5:25
I admire any machine that has a predatory menace about it, and my God this little fighter certainly has that, along with the FW190 and P-51
"So..... Grandpapi was shot down by one of these"
some german somewhere is thinking of it.
They probably shot down the yaks
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 with 109s? Those are pre-war planes against the brand spankingest new design of the war. Yak-3s had fantastic records against 109 for the most part (excepting the occasional German phenome but by that point in the war most of the really good aces were dead).
@@tomaspabon2484 what point of the war? And still one of the last kills of the war was a yak being shot down by Erich Hartmann in a bf109 k4. Alone this single kill facts that what you are saying isn't true at all. The bf109s were perfect fighter planes. So were the yaks. BUT the engine performance at high altitude favoured the 109s which they could use to control the fight. That's why they were often victorious and shot down many yaks. Being above an enemy means a massive advantage. Hope you at least know that. Also many ace fighters were still living if you go after the definition of an ace being a person achieving at least 5 victories. Which surprise surprise was very common in the LW. Just look up the ace counter of ww2 in Wikipedia or some other websites.
I like yaks.
I like 109s
And in the end it's about the pilots flying them. But your just ignoring simple air strategies
@@whereisthelambsauce3908 notice i said "phenomes", maybe the term "aces" muddled the point a bit.
@@tomaspabon2484 that would make no sense if you basically said: yeah the 109s were pre war planes against the new west super yak 3s. And those gar Fantastic records against the 109s. Except when they got fucked every single time when the German was above them.
Bro you basically outargued yourself.
since the yak-3 is lighter in construction than the mustang, imagine the boosted performance with the allison engine
That shit would go supersonic lol
Not really big gap. VK-105PF2 had 1290hp.
Hands down best fighter* of ww2. Very little appreciation for this plane
Edit: noticed this ain't a yak3, but a yak9 not sure what variant though
The problem is just how soviets used to name their planes. Yak-1, Yak-3, Yak-7 and Yak-9 are essencially the same airplane but with improvements and variants. If it was named like Spitfire that were produced the entire war with dozen of variants it would be easier to understand the plane enrolment today
The Russians had no need for a high altitude interceptor or escort fighter, so they loved naturally aspirated V-12s, which outperformed the Merlins at low altitude. They even loved the Aircobra and King Cobra.
They did pretty well with radials too, like the La-5 and La-7. But yes, the game on the Eastern Front was definitely low altitude.
the klimov 105 engine had a two speed supercharger.
beatful sound, v12 in the radials old times.
That prop looks huge on that plane.
Very pretty design. At 0:14 you can clearly see how small it is, compared to the Spit.
Hi there, Just wondering if I could use some of the clips from this video to use in a top 10 airplanes video for my youtube channel about airplanes. Thank you.
Nice Video, great sound, although the Klimov would be interesting. Besides, P51 ha the same Belly Radiator Layout.
Not the same, similar rather. Yaks have separate oil and cooling liquid radiators.
Almost as beautiful as a Spitfire from the same part of the timeline, and arguably as capable...
ahem... yaks had canons from the beginning. spits got 'em waaay later.
Holy hell that 3 bladed yak 3 sounds mean as hell!!!
Such a beautiful aircraft.
1) This is a Yak-9P
2) Not all Yak-3 had the VK-107 engine (really unreliable, but still... very powerful)
3) This is a crime pusnished with gulag to put a capitalist engine in a soviet plane !
all of todays flying yak 3`s are powered by allisons, thats how it is.
Did you remember the p39 aircobra deliver by USA to Stalin in 42 ? Did they have a communist engine ?
It's a Yak-3, you can check by the canopy shape. It has an intake in the upper cowling like the Yak-9U/P, but this is because of the Allison engine, also the intake is different in the late Yak-9s with the VK-107 (U and P).
No, this is NOT Yak-9. Nines had framed canopy windshield. It is a pity that the lines of original are spoiled by some air intake on the top front cowling and the spinner is somewhat too long and pointy (but that's probably because of engine).
Soviets developers are so poor... originally they took hispano suiza y12 and what they got? Yes, piece of shit. It only could work on us petroleum 95, because soviets couldn't make this type of fuel. That's why all of their success reached after 1943 when Germans were recalled back to protect their country. Most of success on aircobra. Whose plane is it?
The cleanest lines of the era.
Not yet watch the original, the FIAT G55 Centauro with DB 603 engine: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/FIAT_G-55_Centauro_%281%29.jpg/1200px-FIAT_G-55_Centauro_%281%29.jpg
The best fighter by far in WW2. Didn't took the deserved admiration to the west only because it was Soviet made.
Best of the dog fighters indeed
But I think the La series are better fighters than the Yaks
Yep, Rusky or not I like that, pretty and flies good too.
According to the description this isn't only a yak 3 it's a yak 3vk107!
Thanks for the clarification. And thanks for posting.
2:16 imagine you're in a retreating german line and you look back and you see this diving on you.
an error in the description: the most Yak 3 use the klimov M105 PF2, the Klimov 107 and 108 was relative unreliable and use only in a small number at end of the war.The Klimov engine was a evolution from the french Hispano Suiza Y12 use in the Morane 406 and Dewoitine D520 because the soviet union did buy the license before the war...And the radiator system is similar as on the Dewoitine D520...
The YAK design bureau program, used the Spitfire as the basis for fighter aircraft.
Looks like a Spitfire and a Mustang has a baby . Great airplane .
Very nice and very sleek. Almost like the P-39 Cobra.
What's about the air intake on the hood?????????? Never installed on a Yak 3 and especially made for Allison engines....
If a Spitfire and Mustang had a baby.
Интересно, а нём так же, как и оригинальном, 90% дерева в фюзеляже и крыльях?
AWESOME!
Sound of the engine apart - it was the AERODYNAMICS that made this plane so great. It could stall in mid-air and regain its flight posture immediately - as a matter of fact that was one of the manouvers they would teach you in the red army pilot regiments. It has been said that this was one of the best (if not THE best) fighters of the 2nd WW - this along the "Lavochkin" series - La5/La5F/La5FN/La5FN3B20... and oh, yeah! - the Yak-9U ... but THIS ONE was at the CUTTING EDGE. It would have been used for many years even after the war.
Sehr schön.
Il est superbe et n'a rien à envier aux spitfire ou aux mustang.
C'est comme ses homologues, un très beau avion. J'ai toujours une pensée pour tous les pilotes des deux camps qui sont morts en combat dans ces belles machines.
Quel gâchis cette guerre. Les Européens ne s'en sont jamais remis.
I am a patriot and I love the mustang and corsair and p38 but this is hands down the best sounding ww2 fighter
It’s an American motor so should sound good.
ive never seen russian planes before , but they do look good
Are there any original Yak 3's left?
Yak-3 Flugzeug ist stark! Der stärkste ist der Ladenbesitzer!....
Video with the right kind of music: the sound of big bore V12 engines! Hope all the idiots who add some crappy noice they think enhance the video would learn from this.
Brilliant video of brilliant plane!
what is that sole rod sticking out on the left wing for?
I might be wrong but I think it’s for speed measurement
Yak 3 my favorite!
I wonder, what would it take to build a replica of original engine.
The engine is there Allison which is 410 horsepower less.
Awesome turn radius
Fantastic takeoff!!!
Definelly the best fighter in the east front, at least until late German designs and modifications took place. The design is very pleasant for the eyes as well.
I have a technical question: - Video says this Yak uses V12 engine. Also, F1 cars (especially Ferrari) from 1995 used V12 engines.
Then why does this sound like low pitched grunting, while the Ferraris screamed in a shrill high pitch?
What factor of engine design is responsible for difference in noise?
These Warbird engines have much higher cubic capacity which is about 28 liters on this engine and also run on lower rpm. Car V12`s, especially F1 have engines with relatively low cubic capacity, so the 1995 F1 cars had only 3 liters. Just different size and speed for the whole machinery.
***** More questions: Why the focus on low rpm? Doesn't the aircraft engine have to continuously operate at a high power for efficient flight speeds? Or am I missing the torque factor here?
The propeller more efficient at low RPM.
Ivan Bukhoi So, do the turbofan engines also have a low rpm? Because fans are also a type of propeller in principle...?
In a certain sense. There are even geared turbofan.
good film with no digital stopped props in flight