Yakovlev Yak-1 Belvedere The development of its engine

The development of its engine has now been entrusted to Cosworth

Laid down at theNewport Newsshipyard in April 1920

Marking and Paiting options:

thanks to the General Electric J79 turbojet engine

Yakovlev Yak-1 Belvedere The development of its engineThe Yak 1 was the first fighter developed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau and first flew on 13 January 1940. The aircraft had a mixed construction with wooden wing and tip, trussed fuselage made of steel tubes with canvas skin. The fighter was well armed with one 20 mm ShVAK cannon and two synchronised 7. 62 mm SHKAS machine guns mounted above the engine. The Yak 1 was the most successful of the new pre war generation of serial Soviet fighters (MiG 3,