Yak-23

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   Yak-23 "Flora"

   By paulopanz

   The Yak-23 was developed as a simple lightweight jet fighter, on Yakovlev's own initiative.
   It was a development of the earlier Yak-15 and Yak-17 fighters, retaining their non-conventional layout with a jet engine in the fuselage nose and exhaust under the cockpit, but the construction was all new.
   Its wings were derived from the Yak-19.
   The Yak-23 used a Soviet copy of the British Rolls-Royce Derwent V turbojet engine, produced as the Klimov RD-500. It first flew on July 8, 1947.
   After successful flights, it underwent state trials in 1948 and was accepted for series production.
   It was evaluated as highly maneuverable, with a good acceleration and take-off and climb capabilities thanks to high thrust-to-weight ratio.
   Faults were poor directional stability at speeds around Mach 0.86 and lack of cockpit pressurization.
   Despite being one of the best straight-wing jet fighters, it was inferior to new swept-wing designs.
    
   WHAT'S IN:
    
   - A Flyable plane (*) using Stary's outstanding pit.
   - Pilot, Sound, openable canopy (Key=10)
   - New/Edited historical Skins:
   1 BVVS
   3 CVL
   2 FAR
   1 ML (a could be)
   7 PWL
   1 USAF
   3 VVS
   - Each with its own decalset
    
   CREDITS:
    
   - Stary: pit
   - Spillone104: RR Derwent Sound
   - Flogger23: Early soviet Decals blended, blurred, edited by me
   - Paulopanz: Skins, Decals, Screens, ini editings
    
   EXTRA:
    
   - Read the story about the USAF plane inside its skin folder, a real cold war spy novel!
    
   INSTALL:
    
   - All in main mod folder
    
   I realy like this little long waited small plane and I made ALL the skins I found. Now with its proper pit .
    
   Enjoy.
    
   @ paulopanz
    
    
    
    
   (*) EXP 2 needed
   

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   Updated November 24, 2013