After reading the recent excellent Aeroplane Monthly article on the HAC partially restored Yak 1, I was keen to hear for the first time a Klimov engine running.
Sure enough, HAC had been kind enough to record the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzcAccNLMew
Mark Sheppard: Your articles over many years on Axis aircraft recoveries and restorations have never failed to surprise and fascinate, in both quality of research and content.
By: shepsair - 22nd July 2012 at 19:20
Yak-1
Definitely not a Merlin but a sound I would love to hear on a completed an airworthy Yak-1.
Lets hope the next Il-2 restoration they fit a Mikulin AM-38F. Would like to hear one of those as well.
regards
Mark
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st July 2012 at 17:47
Since this was just about over my back hedge and across the fields from here, it was a truly astonishing noise to hear whilst in my garden enjoying a mug of tea! Not a sound you hear every day.
By: shepsair - 21st July 2012 at 17:39
Klimov
Thanks Seafuryfan,
Love doing the research and writing. Usually they are twice as long with a lot more info though magazines have to cut to fit these days.
Been a busy few months, Yak-1, then the P40 Kittyhawk, then the He-115 and now another Yak-1 recovery and Il-2 recovery. Shortly a FM-2 from Lake Michigan. All have been written (except the FM-2) and hopefully are in the process of being published over the next few months.
regards
Mark
Love the Yak-1 and the hostry and would love to see her restored and flying with a Bf109E.
By: trumper - 20th July 2012 at 09:01
🙂 That does sound meaty,
By: Growler - 19th July 2012 at 20:14
….and doesn’t it sound beautiful! As the comment says, all it needs now is the completed airframe to fit it onto.
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