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Yak-23 "Flora" 1.0

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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 :focus:

 

 

 

 

(*) EXP 2 needed

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Due to the fact that I am an aviation historian, a Romanian and an SF2 enthusiast allow me to have some additions to the story of the USAF Yak-23 as detailed in the USAF folder.

First of all the name of the pilot is Mihail Diaconu, a lieutenant in the Romanian Air Force (FARPR),  he was not a defector but his oxigen mask had a malfunction, he blacked out and when he recovered saw an airport and landed mistaking the airfield as his own. It proved to be an Yugoslavian one. After two years of bitter arguing he was released from Yugoslav custody in an exchange of prisoners and returned home.

When the aircraft was returned to the Romanian Air Force the fuel pump was new (it had a F-86 Sabre label on it) and the tires were new again, bearing the name GoodYear. That promptly proven that the aircraft was inspected by the USA and the Romanian authority informed the Soviet Union about the whole episode.

The plane was considered obsolete at the time due to the fact that MiG-15 was available and its performance was far better, this episode determined the soviet block to withdraw Yak-23 earlier than scheduled.

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