Yak-23 "Flora" 1.0

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