Comintern Fodder | Yakovlev Yak-23
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2023
- The Soviets began developing jet-powered aircraft in the 1930s, but progress was slow and significant advancements were not made for a long period. However, at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union gained access to a large quantity of German technology, including experimental and operational jet aircraft, as well as various jet engines. This access to German technology provided the necessary foundation for a series of domestically developed jet-powered aircraft projects, including the Yak-23.
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It was an extremely pretty aircraft from some angles, the cockpit glazing was better looking than the majority of its contemporaries.
Especially the Mig 9 and 15. And the lower case t tail was actually quite fetching as well.
It was a lovely aircraft ❤
Great video
That was really cool. I didn't know anything about that early Russian jet. I will go and share this link.
Love this channel ❤🎉
I'd retrofit the P51, because technically it already uses jet propulsion!
Maybe a spitfire, because AFAIK all the Yak-23 had going for it was its maneuverability so you may as well go all in with the big elliptical wing.
Great vids
Slap a couple of RR jet engines on a P38, might be fun.
The P-38 was Mach limited. The P-51 with a jet engine was the FJ-1 Fury - with swept wings that became the Sabre.
The Jet version of the Spitfire was the Attacker (via the Spitfire XIV/Spiteful).
@@allangibson8494 thought we figured out it was flutter with the elevator?
@@SuperchargedSupercharged Nope (though that was part of the problem).
At Mach 0.68 the airflow over the wing on the P-38 separates due to going supersonic and it tucks into an unrecoverable dive.
All the German fighters were good to Mach 0.75 so could dive away from the P-38. The P-51 could reach Mach 0.80 as could the Spitfire (actually Mach 0.89) before this happened.
This was also why no WW2 aircraft exceeded Mach 1 (at least with the propeller and wings attached).
This was the region the X-1 explored.
Look up “critical Mach number” and “compressibility” to explore the topic.
@@allangibson8494 Thank you, I think it would be a good looking slow death trap then.
@@allangibson8494 The kept the 1931 looking rudder and stabilizers from a cartoon biplane.
Soviet jet designs in the MiG series relied on British technology: the Rolls Royse Nene jet, which in an act of insanity was gifted to the USSR by the government of the day.
and all over a game of snooker ( and super spy super soft shoe sole's ;-).
I didn't realize that there was footage of the BI
Yak 15,17 and 23. They all look the same to me!
Curious aircraft.
The discord link placed in the description has expired :/, great video by the way
Nice background music! isn't that sleepless nights by FM Attack?
0:15 the B-1 is rocket powered ;)
and about your question at the end, for sure not a Yak-3 because of the low wingrip speed , you better built a jet fighter with new (for a Jet optimized) fuselage and room for updates/improvements, Yak-15/17/23 was only a improvisation, in aviation you better make "nails with heads"
sry for crappy engl.
A rocket is a jet. What a rocket is not is a turbojet, which is what most a referring to when they use the word jet. A chemical rocket produces a jet propulsion effect, resulting in thrust. Oxidizer must be provided and mixed in the combustion chamber with fuel, whereas a turbojet or the more modern turbofan jet uses air as the oxidizer and compresses it before mixing and ignition. A solid rocket is jet propulsion too. This is why aerospace capable countries had jet propulsion labs involve in both rocketry and turbojet research, i.e., both are forms of jet propulsion.
If I could retrofit an old WWII plane into a (light-powered) jet.. It would the I-16. Just for science!
BTW, Sosoniaru! Could I get a link to the first song in this vid's soundtrack?? I love it!
I think the Soviets and the Satellite states really missed out on a trick to extend the service of the Yak23 as a ground pounder like the F84, with the straight wing and the Derwent derived RD500, same as the La15 they would have probably served at least a decade in such a role.
Its a f 86 saber with the yak.
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personally i do think all early USSR fighter jets were very good looking, something of a rugid charm. ( and ok my view but the mig 21 was maybe one of the best looking jets ever ).
The conversion makes a certain amount of sense. Technology does not advance in lock step. Look at agricultural tractors. The first ones powered by IC engines still looked like steam tractors. Some still employed a structure like a smoke box to force air through the radiator. Evolution, not revolution. It makes you appreciate the Revolutionary nature of German jets, because they were anything but IC powered craft with jets grafted on - the engineers were taking a leap forward.
The Me262 started with a piston engine in the nose. That’s why the jet engines were under the wings (that and it needed two to guarantee one was still running after each flight).
Pusher aircraft converted to jet power quite well (like the Saab J21).
The tricycle landing gear on the Me262 came of the Me309 (literally - they were removed from the Me309 prototype).
The USAF colors at 7:20 threw me.
Romanian Yak-23 that defected to Yugoslavia and was made available for testing by the USAF.
Good to see more videos on this channel.
If i hade chance to convert a prop plane to jet. It would most likely be done on the Swedish Saab 18.
Or maybe on a P-38 Lightning. A Jet variant of the Japanese Ki-83 could be really good looking. Or their J7W1.
Please talk about some converted pasanger planes
first and hi
I have the book "Early Soviet Jet Fighters" that goes into great detail on this type.
Were the Yak-23's in sufficient numbers like the L-39 it may make sense for a Reno air racer to acquire one as a basis to convert back to piston power with say an R-4360, instead of starting with a more dainty Yak-11 fuselage. The cowling is almost ready for the round radial with a very efficient ventral placement for spent cooling air and exhaust pipes. To keep it a nosewheel job would involve some interesting engineering for prop clearances, or revert to a strenthened Yak-11 wing. Yes I know the races have been discontinued, but not the passion.
They had a slow start but when the Mig-15 came out it was a bad actor.
Talks about jet powered aircrafts->shows BI Rocket powered aircraft
The first aircraft shown was rocket, not jet powered.
The Soviets began developing rocket powered aircraft in the 1930s.
Of course xD
In 1931, Korolev had come to Zander with a conceptual design for a rocket-powered aircraft called the RP-1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_rocketry@@insane5375
Yep the RP-318 rocket powered glider, max speed 87mph though had to be towed to altitude by another aircraft.
It would really be a study aeroplane with no feasible combat role. A tricycle undercarriage light bomber would be a good bet with a sensible twin engine placement. Douglas A/B-26 Invader with suitable centre of gravity and lift adjustment, perhaps a P-51B type forward root fillet. Go centrifugal jet a.s.a.p. with fine thickness ratio long nacelles.
Would love to see a jet engined P-51 Mustang or a Zero. Would be very interesting.
North American took the tried and true Mustang by modifying the fuselage to take a jet engine. When captured German research arrived they changed the wings as well to get the Saber we know and love.
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I'm wondering why the eastern bloc had to purchase these armaments as the Soviets had them completely under their thumbs. I truly feel for the former Warsaw Pact nations and their people to have undergone a lost 45 years under such domination this underscores the absolute imperative to stop the Russians in Ukraine. I'd also say the same for the Russian people themselves!!
In this case it was mostly because they didn’t have the ability to construct their own jet aircraft and in most cases never really tried. Producing aircraft is quite expensive compared to guns and tanks. Every country in the Warsaw Pact produced at least some of their own designs, especially Czechoslovakia.
They all also did have a say in what they procured. One example being that the entire Warsaw Pact chose not to acquire the T-62. Bulgaria being the sole exception. None of them saw any value in buying a tank that was marginally better than the T-55 for double the price. Countries like Czechoslovakia and Poland also passed on the BTR series in favor of their own OT-64 APC as well.
They certainly didn’t lose 45 years in their time as socialist countries either, they simply took a different turn than they did in the past, for better or worse depending on perspective and by what metric you’re talking about.
Jesus dude how more disconnected can you be.
We poor people from east and lost decades or whatever, you don't really care about it because you didnt even bother learning about it past the basic ideological stereotypes.
@robertkalinic335 God bless you my son
@@michaeltrent2726 Rude and patronizing
Good video, very interesting, BUT WHY THE AWFUL MUSIC TRACK, JUST LOSE IT PLEASE I DO NOT NEED EXTRA NOISE, IT ADDS NOTHING AT ALL AND WILL PUT OFF A LOT OF VIEWERS.
Please, it is your channel for sure, but please stop it so I can enjoy your research.
The music's fine.