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Konstantin Udalov / Aleksej Valjaev-Zajtzev: "Yak" Sportplanes: Yak-50, Moscow 2024, 144 pages
КОНСТАНТИН УДАЛОВ / АЛЕКСЕЙ ВАЛЯЕВ−ЗАЙЦЕВ:СПОРТИВНЫЕ САМОЛЕТЫ «ЯК»: ЯК-50; МОСКВА, Авико Пресс, 2024 г., 144 с., УДК. 629. 735. 33 (47+57)
Well-known aviation historian Konstantin Udalov continues his series about the planes by the Yak designburo. This series is dedicated to the sportplanes and acrobat planes from the Yak-50 series. (The first one in the series was dedicated to the Yak-55)
The Author writes "The book about the Yak50 aircraft is a logical continuation of the series ‘Sport Aircraft of the Yakovlev Design Bureau’: ‘Yakovlev and His Aircraft’, ‘Yak Sport Aircraft’ and ‘Aircraft Legend Yak18T’".
Having made its maiden flight on 25 June 1972, the aircraft is still in service today, having smoothly passed from sports flying clubs to private pilots all over the world. More than any other, the Yak50 proved to be the most suitable aircraft for conversion into combat aircraft for a number of war films. The Yak50 was more successful in portraying the Soviet La5, La5FN, Yak3 and the German Focke Wolf 190. And indeed the book holds dozens of fotos and beautiful artwork of theses "conversions" (I personally saw before).
The aircraft scored its first succes during the 8th international acrobat flying championship in Kiev in 1974. That is where the book, after a introduction, starts with. In the following chapters the author traces the Yak-50 through time and space: in commercials (pp. 20-25), in the (international) press (pp. 26-31), and then as the main part of this book its use in the USSR/Russia (pp. 32-131) and all ovber the world. These 100 pages are jampacked with dozens of fotos, press articles, drawings and aviation art at its best. For me as a German reader, the use of the YAK-50 in Germany was of interest (pp. 70-81) I rember the famous Yak-50 in theier Fliegerrevue markings. The final chapter is dedicated to the conversions to warplanes and other for films and fotoshootings. This chapter is fascinating and funny at the same time. (pp. 134-137) The book concludes with a short technical description of the Yak-50 (pp. 138-142). This book is a must have for aviation enthusiats and modelers. I highly recommend it!
КОНСТАНТИН УДАЛОВ / АЛЕКСЕЙ ВАЛЯЕВ−ЗАЙЦЕВ:СПОРТИВНЫЕ САМОЛЕТЫ «ЯК»: ЯК-50; МОСКВА, Авико Пресс, 2024 г., 144 с., УДК. 629. 735. 33 (47+57)
Well-known aviation historian Konstantin Udalov continues his series about the planes by the Yak designburo. This series is dedicated to the sportplanes and acrobat planes from the Yak-50 series. (The first one in the series was dedicated to the Yak-55)
The Author writes "The book about the Yak50 aircraft is a logical continuation of the series ‘Sport Aircraft of the Yakovlev Design Bureau’: ‘Yakovlev and His Aircraft’, ‘Yak Sport Aircraft’ and ‘Aircraft Legend Yak18T’".
Having made its maiden flight on 25 June 1972, the aircraft is still in service today, having smoothly passed from sports flying clubs to private pilots all over the world. More than any other, the Yak50 proved to be the most suitable aircraft for conversion into combat aircraft for a number of war films. The Yak50 was more successful in portraying the Soviet La5, La5FN, Yak3 and the German Focke Wolf 190. And indeed the book holds dozens of fotos and beautiful artwork of theses "conversions" (I personally saw before).
The aircraft scored its first succes during the 8th international acrobat flying championship in Kiev in 1974. That is where the book, after a introduction, starts with. In the following chapters the author traces the Yak-50 through time and space: in commercials (pp. 20-25), in the (international) press (pp. 26-31), and then as the main part of this book its use in the USSR/Russia (pp. 32-131) and all ovber the world. These 100 pages are jampacked with dozens of fotos, press articles, drawings and aviation art at its best. For me as a German reader, the use of the YAK-50 in Germany was of interest (pp. 70-81) I rember the famous Yak-50 in theier Fliegerrevue markings. The final chapter is dedicated to the conversions to warplanes and other for films and fotoshootings. This chapter is fascinating and funny at the same time. (pp. 134-137) The book concludes with a short technical description of the Yak-50 (pp. 138-142). This book is a must have for aviation enthusiats and modelers. I highly recommend it!
