YAK 52 AT WADDINGTON

One of our group visits Headcorn fairly frequently, usually Saturdays or Sundays. Otherwise we tend to stick to the Kent/Sussex border for aerial activity. Which reminds me, I must go down to Lydd sometime soon to visit some old friends. 😮

Sounds brilliant has this group got a website at all? When you mean the Kent/Sussex border do you mean like the Kent and East Sussex Railway area? 😎

James
Yak 52 Fan

Cool 😎 what parts of Kent do you fly round do you visit Headcorn much?

James
YAK 52 fan

One of our group visits Headcorn fairly frequently, usually Saturdays or Sundays. Otherwise we tend to stick to the Kent/Sussex border for aerial activity. Which reminds me, I must go down to Lydd sometime soon to visit some old friends. 😮

We are operating out of Biggin Hill. 😎

Cool 😎 what parts of Kent do you fly round do you visit Headcorn much?

James
YAK 52 fan

Cool where about’s are you based? My dream is too own a Yak 52 one day and base it at Headcorn and hope to have some colours like this http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5659221 or like a YAK 50 at headcorn which is in RAF colours 😀

James

We are operating out of Biggin Hill. 😎

Very nice paintscheme!!

The Yak 50 at Headcorn indead has a very original coloursscheme.
I like it 😉

James

The Yak 50 at Headcorn indead has a very original coloursscheme.
I like it 😉

The colour scheme was decided by the aircrafts previous owners when it was imported in 1995. Close up it is starting to look a bit shabby due to a lack of time to work on it. There is actually a group of 4 of us operating it clocking up around 70 hours per yearmainly over Kent! 😀

Cool where about’s are you based? My dream is too own a Yak 52 one day and base it at Headcorn and hope to have some colours like this http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5659221 or like a YAK 50 at headcorn which is in RAF colours 😀

James

The colour scheme was decided by the aircrafts previous owners when it was imported in 1995. Close up it is starting to look a bit shabby due to a lack of time to work on it. There is actually a group of 4 of us operating it clocking up around 70 hours per yearmainly over Kent! 😀

James
I have flown for about two hours with small reserve, but i prefer to stop for a stretch of legs etc after about 90 mins ( about 300 kms )
yours
Simon

Flying for two hours or 90 mins will be long another flying around Kent doing some loops etc 😎

Aha! Another Yak herder.

Here is mine, not quite as spangly clean as yours I’m afraid 🙁

Wow that is one nice Yak you have there why is it in D-day colours?

Never knew we had two YAK 52 owners on the forum 😎

James

Hey! That yak was sold by some friends of mine! 😀
That was the first Yak I’ve even sat in 😀 😀

Aha! Another Yak herder.

Here is mine, not quite as spangly clean as yours I’m afraid 🙁

James
I have flown for about two hours with small reserve, but i prefer to stop for a stretch of legs etc after about 90 mins ( about 300 kms )
yours
Simon

thank you all for your kind comments and beutiful photographs,
TAYLORMAN- with you all the way on the F4U, my father flew it with the fleet air arm in WW11 against the japanese(ps there will be one at the breighton show this weekend if you want a close look at one)
manston airport yes the 52 is easy to fly -sort of point and go, but a bit fiddly with the prop and gills management for cylinder head temp and then there is remembering to put the wheels down at the end!. bit crucial on fuel management- only 120 litres and uses it fast, i only get about 20 hrs a year so mine costs a fortune per hour but the groups i know of with say 200 hrs get about £200 -£250 per hr,
if any of you would like a ride i am at breighton most sundays and it is @ £80.00 for fuel for 25 mins of full on fun,
thanks again
simon

Well sounds good I would like to own a YAK 52 one day and base it at nearby Headcorn Aerodromme 🙂 so how long can you fly a 52 for before its time to land again?

James

thank you all for your kind comments and beutiful photographs,
TAYLORMAN- with you all the way on the F4U, my father flew it with the fleet air arm in WW11 against the japanese(ps there will be one at the breighton show this weekend if you want a close look at one)
manston airport yes the 52 is easy to fly -sort of point and go, but a bit fiddly with the prop and gills management for cylinder head temp and then there is remembering to put the wheels down at the end!. bit crucial on fuel management- only 120 litres and uses it fast, i only get about 20 hrs a year so mine costs a fortune per hour but the groups i know of with say 200 hrs get about £200 -£250 per hr,
if any of you would like a ride i am at breighton most sundays and it is @ £80.00 for fuel for 25 mins of full on fun,
thanks again
simon

Simon, that is one nice looking Yak 52 there how much does it cost run and is it easy to fly as i would like one day:) and paint it in RAF colours 😀

James

Hi, I took my yak 52 G-TYAK to waddington for the static display this weeekend, did anyone get a picture of it I could have
thanks
Simon

Simon,

Here are a few from a longer sequence of you arriving on Friday……

Let me know if you want the originals (they are about 1.8 – 2.3Mb each)

Ken

That’s a very nice Yak!!
I like Yaks with a miltary paint scheme more than ‘normal’ colours :p

Simon,

I have one here: http://aviationpages.fotopic.net/p31195521.html

Click the image for a larger version and then use ‘right-click and save as…’

If you want the high res image, drop me a line as it’s quite large!

It was a shame about the bins and the fast food vans right next to it though. I also have some ‘YAK from this years RACo Radial Fly-in at Breighton on the same web site. If any are of any use, let me know.

Cheers,

Chris

Hi,

None from Waddo unfortunately, but some here (Breighton):

http://www.g-epix.com/large/photos15/g-tyak03.jpg
http://www.g-epix.com/large/photos15/g-tyak02.jpg
http://www.g-epix.com/large/photos15/g-tyak01.jpg
http://www.g-epix.com/large/photos33/g-tyak001.jpg
http://www.g-epix.com/large/photos33/g-tyak002.jpg

Cheers.