While visiting family in the western part of Indiana, I noticed a WW2 era Russian YAK-9 fighter aircraft fly overhead. I then drove to the nearest airport to see if it had perhaps landed there; it had! Here’s a short video of the taxi onto the runway for take-off. NOTE: Although the propeller appears to stop and reverse direction, it’s a video illusion due to the rotational speed of the prop versus the frame rate of the video camera. My next video will be a short clip of the YAK-9 take-off. The pilot’s next stop will be Nashville, TN before returning home to Georgia. — Indiana Traveller Aircraft – YAK-9 (Russian) For the most part, American aerospace testing was done on American aircraft. However, beginning with WWI, whenever the United States obtained examples of foreign aircraft – either from friendly countries through cooperative arrangements or from enemies via capture or defection- they were likely to wind up at McCook Field or Wright Field for a thorough evaluation which included flight testing if possible. “During WWII evaluations at Wright Field included allied aircraft like the Russian Yak-9 and the British Spitfire and Mosquito, and enemy aircraft including the German JU-88, ME-109, FW-190, ME-262, and the Japanese Zero. The end of the war brought large numbers of captured aircraft for evaluation. As with other test flight activities, much of the foreign aircraft evaluation moved to Muroc Air Base (later Edwards AFB) after the war, but even then the occasional …
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Aircraft – YAK-9 (Russian) Fighter Runway Taxi
December 21, 2011 By
My grandpa flew YAK-9 and Polikarpov I-16 he respected the German pilots, they were much more experienced than our.
Окрас эскадрильи “Нормандия-Неман”
@Senyrar Google => Stroboscopic effect
@Senyrar The camera’s frame rate is nearly in sync with the rotation of the propeller. It’s just an optical illusion.
There’s a better one with a helicopter on youtube, just type “helicopter blades not moving”
How the hell is it moving when the Blades are hardly moving ?
attractive… engine’s sounds !!! ~~
A handsome fighter.
Superb!!!
На этом самолёте эмблемы французской эскадрильи “Нормандия неман”, которая воевала в составе красной армии.
simulator game?
@hitmann2300
You know, on second glance, I think you might be right, mate. The cockpit positioning is more consistent with that of the Yak-3s than the late series Yak-9s. However, Yak-9Us also had the radiator cowl under the wing, along with the redesigned twin oil coolers. Also, what about the windscreen? Yak-3’s had a one-piece windscreen, but the machine in this vid has segmented windscreen.
@hitmann2300 also the air intakes on the wings are rectangular on a yak 9 plus the exaust pipes of a 9 are four long pipes as opposed to 6 short as seen in the yak 3 at 0.10
@dwb345 @dwb345 That is NOT a YAK-9U! It’s a YAK-3. You can tell by three distinguishing features, stop the tape at 0.38
1) Location of the Cockpit. The YAK-9U’s was moved back slightly
2) The Rear Cockpit glass is not flared, it has a blunter shape then the 9U’s which was flared back further for slipstream.
3) The Radiator cowl under the plane.
Also note that the plane is painted in the markings of the French Normandie Niemen squadron, which was famous for Flying the Yak-3
No its a yak-9u
It’s a Yak-9UM, not a Yak-3. Trust me; a friend of mine owns two of these.
@russiaviation
No, it’s a Yak-9U. The Yak-3s and Yak-9Us look almost identical, but the windscreen on this plane gives it away as a Yak-9U. The Yak-3s had an unarmored, one-piece windscreen, whereas the Yak-9Us had a framed windscreen with the front pane being armored.
This one is definitely a YAK-3, not a Yak-9 !!!
There areonly Allision in Yaks today.
Is there are Alisson????
its a yak 9U
Markings are offensive and would look better with some 20mm cannon holes from a Messerschmitt.
awesome !
that’s a Yak3 with French Normandie Niemen markings.
Yak9 has a oil cooler under its nose and a cockpit moved backwards.
IL-2 Sturmovic (for attack plane)
Yes, the great patriotic war ….. what was the tank buster plane the IL Stevonivich ?