Aerofair

(I wonder if that is Yak11Fan at the back of the photo, just starting up.)

Nope, nowt to do with me that one. My chariot looks like this 😉

It was indeed a Great Lakes 😡

Apologies for the mistake earlier. 😮

That looks really great. I am glad to see the tail wheel has been wound in a little.

The aircraft at Sun ‘n Fun was a Yak-52TW. This is a purpose-built aircraft and, consequently, is unlikely to be allowed on the UK register (not impossible, just unlikely).

The aircraft in Yakrider’s picture (with the fabulous looking passenger) is a Yak-52TD. It is a conversion from a nosewheel model and has a much more attractive tailwheel. Yak UK Ltd will be putting it on the UK register in just a few weeks time.

(I wonder if that is Yak11Fan at the back of the photo, just starting up.)

It was indeed a Great Lakes 😡

Moggy

That looks really great. I am glad to see the tail wheel has been wound in a little. On the Yak at Sun/Fun, it looked as though it had been borrowed from a Luton Minor!

Re the reference to Moggy’s mauled 52, was it not in an embrace with a Great Lakes (G-BIIZ) rather than a Starduster? I do, however, remember a video which used to be shown at CAA safety evenings, when a Starduster was rammed by a Luscombe on the runway at Badminton.

“Ungainly and spindly”

Not any more, the new TD is absolutely gorgeous!

YR

I didn’t realise that Yaks neighed

The engine is driven by horse power, not yak power!
:rolleyes:

smelly, hairy things with horns

The smell is Estee Lauder, the hair is my own and I’m not going to drag the conversation down re the last bit!

Not forgetting Radials do not drip oil, they are only marking their territory!

I know what Auster means.

When they fiirst started to appear over here I thought they looked ungainly, particularly on the ground. It used to annoy me when they were allowed into the ‘Fighter Pan’ at North Weald since all they were was a spindly-looking trainer.

But as Janie has said, the view from the other side of the plexiglass is a lot better 🙂

Moggy

Maybe if you were in the cockpit with 400hp galloping in front of you, neighing the call of the wild, you would see it differently.

I didn’t realise that Yaks neighed – thought it was a more of a snort!! Horrible smelly, hairy things with horns – and that’s just the pilots!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 (ducks to avoid missiles being hurled!)

Maybe if you were in the cockpit with 400hp galloping in front of you, neighing the call of the wild, you would see it differently.

Click here for full details on the sexy Yak-52TD.

I’m sorry but I don’t find the Yak 52 or any other aircraft of similar origin remotely sexy!!! To quote the great S.Milligan Esq., “With eyesight like that, how did you become a pilot?!”!!!!!! 😀 😀

Moggy: I bumped into someone else from the old Tatiana group yesterday. I never got his name, but he was the one who sold his share just before the Starduster ate it.

Ah! Him.

I can’t recall his name either :confused:

Moggy

Click here for full details on the sexy Yak-52TD.

Moggy: I bumped into someone else from the old Tatiana group yesterday. I never got his name, but he was the one who sold his share just before the Starduster ate it.

😡 I miss my YAK!

Moggy

Yak-52TD

EUR55,00 will convert your current nose-wheel one to a taildragger. Because you will be getting a fully retractable undercarriage, you get new wings. You also get new paint. Conversion takes 3-weeks.

If you do not already have one to convert, then EUR100,000 will get you a newly converted one. That’s currently about £67,000 for a 360hp military spec aircraft. Can you find something else in it’s league for that price?

Or there is the super model EUR120,000 will get you one with a 400hp enging, three-blade propeller, transponder with Mode C, strobes, rounded wing-tips, Hooker harness, extra baggage space and a smoke system!

We did some climb tests in the TD last night, pitching it against a nosewheel version. We were in the 400hp 2-blade demonstrator. It pulled away from the other very nicely!

Please note the at the -TD is different from the -TW.

100,000 Euros (what ever they are worth these days) I believe. Now I fear my old Laguna is worth £2k, so I’m about £58k short, could sell the house I guess and live in the hanger.

Yak 11 Fan.

Do you recall how much? I saw one at Sun&Fun last year, and I think it was then in the region of 90,000 dollars.

Is that the Yak 52TD? I can only conclude that TD must stand for Turbo Diesel. Got to have a sit in it today, very interesting, but far to much money for me I fear.