Jeremy Diack of the Yakovlevs sent in these photos for Picture of the Day, with a note: “Following on Etienne Verhellen’s excellent photo of him in action in his Yak-52 at Gravity Park, here is a small selection of photos of our team in action at last year’s Formation Aerobatic Challenge, held at Zhengzhou, Henan Province, in east-central China. Our British six-ship display team — The Yakovlevs — comprises a lead two-seat Super Yak-52, modified with a more powerful 450-hp radial engine in order to keep pace with its formation companions, and five lightweight single-seat Yak-50s. The team is returning to Zhengzhou this year for a show at the end of April.”
Nice photos Jeremy ! 🙂
See you soon in Henstridge.
Cheers, Etienne.
http://www.yakovlevs.com/the-team/pilots-and-crew/
With our new toy …
http://forums.matronics.com/files/yak_50_low_pass_2_verhellen_etienne_sp_yeh__50__ebcf__14oct17__julien_devester_28_169.jpg
Great pictures, Jeremy. But a dumb question from a GA fan from the evil airport side, hence not a pilot: in the fourth picture, why is the plane at upper left not making a trail?
Good question and certainly not dumb…..it’s because the lead aircraft would be smoking into the face of number 6 behind him… so best not to for safety reasons. Hope you like the photos.
Some wonderful shots from China