La-9

You will be able to take better piccies with wonderful scenery than that,you will post them wont you,promise,promise

You betcha !!!!!

Buying an extra mem card for the camera to take esp for the airshow

Originally posted by turbo_NZ
stunning pics !!!:)

You will be able to take better piccies with wonderful scenery than that,you will post them wont you,promise,promise 😀

stunning pics !!!:)

😀 Even faster at low level 🙂 but if i remember it sounds fairly laid back 🙂

😀 It even LOOKS fast taking off

here’s a pic

Pity…

I was thinking there was going to be another surprise for the airshow….ah well !!

The Yak-9 was great while it was here too….they also are quite small.

Machine guns that spit out 30 rounds a second (three times faster than browning 30 cals) and with most models fitted with 20mm cannon as well it was quite well armed for a stubby little race car.

Don’t get wrong, I think the Polikarpovs are awesome, esp. the I-153 , just they haven’t quite got the aesthetic beauty of a Spit or La-9 (my opinion only here BTW 😀 )

Cheers

Didn’t know a Yak-3 was going to be there ?

There probably won’t… they sold the Yak-3M they had in 1999 to an undisclosed buyer, but as I said it would have been nice to see it in the air with the others.

Try this link:

http://www.nzfpm.co.nz/former/yak3.htm

We’ve had very little in the way of russian aircraft here, until recently that is,…so most people (including myself) judge by the Polikarpovs….

Machine guns that spit out 30 rounds a second (three times faster than browning 30 cals) and with most models fitted with 20mm cannon as well it was quite well armed for a stubby little race car.

What accentuates the size to me is the relative size of the cockpit canopy to the rest of the airframe. Almost looks like one of those scaled down “replicas”.

How come I can put cockpit but not D1ck?

great, thanks for that informative answer, Ant.

The more I see and read about the La-9 the more fascinated I become with it.

I hope at Wanaka, they do a “dogfight” with the La-9 and Corsair

“What’s the difference between the 9 & 11 ?

They look very similar.”

According to the Database article,the differences between the 9 and 11 were mostly internal.The La11 had revised fuel and oil systems and had a greater internal fuel tankage and because of the increased endurance this brought about the cockpit was updated with better blind flying instruments and a comfier seat.Interestingly,the La11 also had provision for wing tip fuel tanks like a Lockheed T-33 although these seem to have never been fitted in service.
The La11 was the result of something called Project 134,the idea being to create an improved and standardised La9. Previously,La9’s had been built to varying standards with differing equipment fit and standardising brought about faster production and easier maintenence in the field.

What’s the difference between the 9 & 11 ?

They look very similar.

Right,’ere goes with the survivors listing…

La9 “66”- Muzeul Aviatiei Baneasa,Bucharest,Romania

La9 “06”- China Aviation Museum,Beijing,China

La9 “7504”- Aeronautical Institute,Beijing,China

La-9 G-BWUD- OFMC,New Zealand

La9UTI (two seater) no known identity number-China Aviation Museum,Beijing

La11 “20”-Fighter Collection,Duxford UK

La11 “F-911”- Museum Pusat TNI-AU,Jawa Tengah,Indonesia

La11 “03” -Beijing Aeronautical Institute,China

La11 “30” -Nizny Novogorod Military Museum,Russia

La11 “24” -China Aviation Museum,Beijing

at a sunny Duxford, 2003, big air fair to see it again…

yeah, but could you call the I-16 elegant ???
Purposeful, mean, stubby, and aggressive,…perhaps…

We’ve had very little in the way of russian aircraft here, until recently that is,…so most people (including myself) judge by the Polikarpovs….

I never thought a Russian aircraft could be elegant

Oh, C’mon! Typical western view. Pe-2 – lovely, Yak family, fast looking, sleek; even the Il2 looks more purposeful than many western attack aircraft…

Sorry to see it go – a stunner.

I have some reasonable shots of it in the air which I can post when I get home from work…..

Originally posted by SteveYoung

China seems to have quite a surprising amount of gems… La9’s, P47, P61… Wonder what else is out there…?

Doolittle raider B-25 perhaps………….;)

Originally posted by Ant Harrington
A*roplane published a Database section on the ‘late Lavochkins’ a few months back, which included a survivors listing.IIRC, there are a couple of La-9’s in China,although they’re on outdoor display and looking pretty terrible.I can post the survivors listing tomorrow if anyone’s interested??

I stand corrected! 🙂

China seems to have quite a surprising amount of gems… La9’s, P47, P61… Wonder what else is out there…?

Pants 🙁