Show me yours, and I'll show you mine!

frankvw: Oh my … went to that link and there’s so many of them. Guide me a little better to final destination. Not to confuse Rockwell Commander with Aero Commander. Aero Commander is a twin engine. Like those too. Almost purchased one about ten years ago.

Thanks. 😉

Flylady

Flylady,

If you can’t wait to fly this beauty, well, i think the plane was just released for FS2002 on http://www.avsim.com . It looks good.

😉 wysiwyg …. you have a good eye for detail. Like that!

This baby should be rolling off the shop with that new engine any day now. I hope!!! Can’t wait to hear that Turbo Charge kick-in down that runway!

Hey … keep posting your photos. I’ve seen some nice birds here that I’ve never seen before! 🙂

Flylady

Rockwell Commander. I was asked to do deliveries of these to new owners but was too busy with flying work.

Getting closer!!!

Can anyone guess what this bird is?

Fraid I can’t help. I’ve never seen the system.

I have always assumed that is consisted of some sort of spring device interconnecting the yoke and the rudder such that applying left hand down on the yoke also fed in some rudder input.

In a similar vein, I thought at first I would never get to grips with the Yak, I couldn’t fly it smoothly. Then they disconnected a spring-loaded self centreing device from the stick and it became easy-peasy.

Looks like designers always assume that we pilots need their help to fly.

Moggy

Hi gdenney & Moggie,

Can you explain to me how this combined aileron and rudder system works please? Is it a chains and pulleys thing? Sounds like quite a complicated system to me for a light aircraft, perhaps that why it is not on all aeroplanes.

Thanks in advance

S’gull

I have heard about this piece of wierdness on Tri-Pis.

It was something to do with making it more car like – though why the throttle didn’t therefore end up on the floor defeats me.

But no, they couldn’t do it with the Colt as there are no flaps so you really need easy access to sideslip / forward slip.

Moggy

Moggy,

Does the Colt have the interconnected Aileron and Rudder controls like the Tri-Pacer? I found this quite a strange system to get used too.

G

Nice bird photos. Keep posting! It’s real nice to see your classics.

This was about three weeks ago. Mounted engine, prop … getting closer.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

Luvverly!

Can I have a ride please?

Moggy:D

Lets add another piper to this thread.

One with the little wheel at the correct end :p

Here is my Cub 🙂

Glenn

We had a good relationship with the Russian Air Attache to the UK, hence the permission to use official markings and also the name Tatiana.

She was his daughter. Whilst the name somehow conjures up the image of an elfin ballerina, she was in fact a rather truculent and surly pubescent sporting a nice line in Doc Martens.

One of the group took her up in the aircraft at the day of the naming ceremony and did a very ill-advised low-level slow roll over the field (Old Sarum)

She did not look impressed on dismounting.

Happy days!

Moggy

Colour schemes

Moggy

It’s not an authentic Russian scheme, hence the big letters and the charging Yak on the nose.

Re: colour schemes – recently at North Weald I was talking to the chap who now owns the former LY-AOZ, which was painted in an ETPS raspberry ripple scheme when it was a Yak UK demonstrator and used on an ad hoc basis by the ETPS. The CAA has now objected to the roundels as formal permission wasn’t granted when they were first put on, and he has had to replace them with some make-believe ‘Italianate’ roundels instead, which is a shame as it really looked good in that original red/white/blue scheme. Got some time in that one as well at Little Gransden.

YR

Oscar Zulu pictured here in its former glory for the Yak Club Fly-in at Compton Abbas last year.

I have to say that I dont own or have a share in an aircraft, however when I can afford it, it will either be a yak, or a bulldog…..great aircraft….

coanda

Nice colour scheme. 🙂

The registration marking intrudes a little though. We had a dispensation to fly in Russian air force livery with a teeny reg.

Moggy

Here’s the Yak I’ve got a flying share in. Not flown it for a while as it’s in Romania having some wing spar corrosion repaired – which was found when it was being put onto the G-register.

Looking forward to getting it back, as I’m missing the aeros.

Making do with Bulldogs and Arrows at the moment.

YR

Moggy,

That was some beautiful airplane. I could picture loops, rolls and spins on that baby! What a blast.

Here’s a nice clean firewall and a new engine mount.

…. keep posting photos. I like to see yours and I will show you mine.

Flylady 🙂

Just loops, rolls, stall turns and spins.

After only a few months one of the group members took it to a fly-in and a Great Lakes Biplane took the term ‘Fly-in’ too literally and flew in to the side of the Yak.

Luckily our guy was already clear, so he survived, but poor Tatiana was so extensively damaged that the insurers wrote her off.

Then before the replacement, Tatiana II, arrived I moved away from the area and had to leave the group.

Miss that aircraft badly 🙁 but love my Colt 🙂

Moggy

Now you are talking REAL airplanes. Wonderful beasts 😀 😀 Did you you do any aeros in the YAK??