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Spiral on Yak prop spinner
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66misos
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« on: June 21, 2020, 12:00:46 PM »

Hi,
seems that white spiral on red prop spinner was quite popular on Yaks at the end of war:

1.) Yak-3, Ermokhin, 402 iap:




2.) Yak-9x, 900 iap:

probably/reportedly this Golovachev's Yak-9M:



3.) Yak-9M, 513 iap:



4.) Somewhere in Bulgaria:


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Massimo Tessitori
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2020, 03:05:53 PM »

Hi Misos, I suggest to draw it on your profile of Yak-9 of Golovachev. Maybe it was useful to hypnotize enemy pilots.
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2020, 03:28:23 PM »

Hi Massimo,
that spinner looks black with white spiral like on German Bf-109. However, the face of Golovatchev is also pretty dark, Is it due to filter/photo material and spinner is red?
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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2020, 06:55:47 AM »

Hi,
seems that white spiral on red prop spinner was quite popular on Yaks at the end of war:

2.) Yak-9x, 900 iap:

probably/reportedly this Golovachev's Yak-9M:

regards,
   66misos


Hi, I not affirmed this photo with spiral is Golovachev's plane. But we see the spirals used in 900 iap, so very decorated Golovachev's plane should had spiral too. "Highly likely".

And I vote for red color Smiley
And the logic votes too, I think!
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« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2020, 07:03:19 AM »

to hypnotize enemy pilots.

That's not conventional method of warfare!
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2020, 12:07:03 PM »

https://goskatalog.ru/portal/#/collections?id=25250977
Unknown unit (wrong name and number) but cool plane
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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2020, 08:30:03 PM »

Could it be after the war? There is no trace of camouflage, the uppersurface looks uniformly green or dark grey.
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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2020, 05:06:50 AM »

Yes, looks like postwar, "бывший командир взвода" means "former platoon commander".
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