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Home News Current Projects Online Store Stories Photo & Video Downloads Subscribe Links About Us	Historical Aero DVD: Yakovlev Yak-52 Sit back and enjoy the view from the back seat of the Yak 52 as the Red Star Aerobatic team put the aircraft through its paces. Enjoying increasing popularity as a relatively cheap yet well performing 'warbird', the Yak-52 is an enjoyable aircraft to watch displayed. Both the Yak 52 and the Chinese Nanchang CJ6 have a common ancestor in the earlier Yak 18 trainer from the late 1940's. Often mistaken for the Nanchang, the Yak 52 can be easily distinguished by its shorter, straighter wings, it's more rounded tail profile, and the partially visible retracted undercarriage. The Nanchang has a more square tail, and the longer wings are slightly gull shaped. Designed by the Yakovlev Bureau in Russia, these aircraft were still in production until recently and were built under licence in Romania by Intreprinderia de Avione Bacau.The prototype aircraft (originally designated Yak-50U) first flew in 1974. Up until 1991 over 1700 aircraft of the type were built, with a smaller number having been produced since that time. In the early 1980s' a single seat (Yak-53) variant was being designed, but this design never caught on, and only one of those aircraft remains flying today (in the USA). Since the first Yak 52 was imported into New Zealand in 1991, others have followed and there are now at least a dozen examples of the type around the country. The Ivenchenko 360 horsepower engine provides a high power to weight ratio making this aircraft well suited for aerobatics, even though it was initially designed as a primary trainer aircraft for piltos who would later transition to Soviet jet aircraft.   Sample Movies Click on the thumbnails below to view the movies... Please join the HAFU mailing list, by emailing us, if you'd like notification when this product is available (in 2008). The more interest we get, the sooner it will be produced. Also please do let us know if you'd be interested in downloadable versions of the material which can be played on Apple TVs, iPods and other MP4 video players. About The DVD Click on the thumbnails below to view the movies... contain a minimum of 100 mins of video footage, including ground to air, air-to-air and on-board camera footage. be available in both PAL and NTSC formats include previously unreleased video footage and photographs	Back To Current Projects List If you can't see the movies at the bottom of this page you will need to download and install the QuickTime software in order to watch the videos on this site. The software is free, and you'll find complete installation instructions at the Apple website. Click the button below to get QuickTime.  Quicktime 7.x Required We use Quicktime format movies on this site, to provide you with small, yet high quality video. Please feel free to email us with any comments you have regarding any of the photos or video on this site (especially if you have any problems viewing our content). We're always pleased to hear some feedback about our work.
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