Russian investigators are probing a runway excursion involving a Yakovlev Yak-40 at Siberia’s Olekminsk airport. The trijet had been inbound from Bratsk on 10 December, says the East Siberian ...
Russian researchers are planning to test-fly a Yakovlev Yak-40 modified with a superconducting electric motor and propeller mounted on the trijet’s nose. The Moscow-based Central Institute of Aviation ...
Read this pilot report about the Yak-40, a Soviet feederliner jet transport built in classically rugged Russian design. Our reporter, Herbert J. Coleman, said it was an easy aircraft to fly with heavy ...