richard.goode(at)russiana
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 Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:14 am Post subject: Yak-18Ts |
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We have sold something life twenty-five Yak-18Ts to different parts of the world.
A real problem outside Europe is that of shipping them, simply because they will not fit into a standard shipping container.
The options are:
- Remove the wings and make a steel palette on which the fuselage is mounted, with wings securely put underneath. Then wrap the whole aeroplane in plastic, and it goes on top of the top container, since the centre section, with hte wings off, is too wide on a ship.
- Or you can put it into a "high top" container, again by removing the wings and mounting the aircraft vertically but sideways - i.e. on the centre section root, with it being stabilised by the other (top) centre section.
Both methods achievable, but you need to know how to do them.
A light 18T with 400 hp; and 3-blade prop really is quite a performer. Mine will cruise at 164 knots; 6 hours endurance; will land and take off in 400 yards at maximum gross and, with full inverted systems very aerobatic!
As I told some of you the Smolensk factory is starting on a new batch of sixty aircraft for pilot training - price US $400,000 each. However it does mean that new engines will be made for the first time since 1984.
Richard Goode Aerobatics
Rhodds Farm
Lyonshall
Herefordshire
HR5 3LW
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1544 340120
Mob: +44 (0) 7768 610389
Fax: +44 (0) 1544 340129
www.russianaeros.com
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