Performance data for VVS aircraft?

[TomcatViP]

Yeah tht was a huge series of good articles on the Yacks and La's. From Yehfim Gordon I think. Charts (credible ) were included. Do you remember the Mustang story that went at the same time ?

The Yack were so good starting from the 9 series that they had an edge at low alt. The bad points were concern with visibility, skin smoothness due to wood and moisture and wing airfoils that were fairly outdated.

Regarding marksmanship of large wood panels man hve to remind that the Soviet mastered this techniques and although it was not durable it could produce really good result.

At the end of the war French air Force had late Fw, Spits and Yack 3 tested against each other by vets in a dogfight scenario. The Yack3 went out of the top !