Yakovlev Yak-7 family

March 6, 2021: profile of Yak-7 UTI was added to the Yak-7 page

May 22, 2020: profiles of Yak-7B late n.27, 12 iap PVO and of Yak-7B late Red 8, 42 iap, 240 iad were added to the Yak-7 profiles page

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Yak-7 types

By Michal Sekula

Yak-7 profiles

By Michal Sekula


What would it take a yak to make?

examination of available documents, drawings and kits
building of a Yak-7B model by modified ICM kit, 1/48

article of Alexey Matvienko
translation by Alex Ruchkowsky

first uploaded on April 20, 2005

 

Links:

http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/board/index.php?board=43.0 subforum on Sovietwarplanes about Yak fighters.

http://airfield.narod.ru/index.html Yaks in general: an huge amount of photos, profiles and other documents, in Russian.

 http://www.airfield.narod.ru/yak/yak-7/yak-7.html Page on Yak-7s in paricular, in Russian.

http://walkarounds.airforce.ru/avia/rus/yak/yak-9/index.htm Walkaround of an early Yak-9, very similar to Yak-7B, at the Yakovlev museum.

https://coollib.com/b/261704/read page on Yaks

http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_9320.html page of Scalemodels.ru on Yak-7/9

http://www.airforce.ru/aircraft/engines/vk105pf/index.htm: Engine M-105PF

http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_9320.html Wide page on Scalemodels.ru about Yak-7/9. In Russian.

http://www.airwar.ru/fighterww2.html index with links to detailed descriptions of all fighter planes, including all versions of Yaks. In Russian.

https://waralbum.ru/photo/weapons/aircrafts/russian_aircrafts/yak-7/ Russian photographic archive with many historical photos in high resolution.