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1948
1948 - 1720.PDF
**:*^y FLIGHT ()cti>t>n iqih 46.2 YAKS AND DAKS HOUGH the Russian caption to the accompanying view of an array of fighters describes these as Lavochkin 7s, it will readily be seen that only the machine in the foreground is oi this type, the remainder being Yaks. Present information suggests that, although new jet aircraft are available in useful quantities, piston-engined machines still preponderate in the Soviet fighter squadrons. Up to the time of writing, no jet fighters have been sighted in the Berlin area, though the older Yaks have been altogether too prominent in recent months (as witness a photograph taken by an American in one of the corridors and lately published in the Illustrated London News). Another type which has become quite familiar to British and American crews is the LI-2 (otherwise designated PS-84)—known in the corridors as the "Russian Dak." Some of these aircraft (supplied under Lease-Lend) have two-row Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasps, but Russian-built examples, such as that illustrated in our second photograph, have single-row Russian M-62S.
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