Yakovlev Yak-25 (1947)
Yakovlev Yak -25 (Russian Яковлев Як -25) is the name for a Soviet front fighter. It was built shortly after the Second World War in a series of similar test models for testing the at that time newly emerging jet engines. Since this model does not progress beyond the prototype stage, the name was in 1953 awarded to a twin-engine airplane again, see Yakovlev Yak - 25th
History
This pattern was created as a direct result of Yak- 19 and was with her, except for the stronger engine and more powerful armament, identical. Since the pilots complained caused by the set back cabin poor visibility in the standing troops already in service Yak- 23, moved to the cockpit far forward.
The aircraft consisted of metal and had a trapezoidal wing in mid-wing arrangement, the stabilizer was swept. The struts of the main landing gear could be retracted into the wing, the main wheels and the nose wheel drove into the hull.
It produced two prototypes, named Jak -25 / I, and equipped with a fuel additive tanks on the wing tips Jak-25/II. Flight testing began in 1947 and was conducted by Sergei Anokhin.
Since the MiG-15 had proven to be jet powered fighter trendsetting with swept wings, presented to the testing of the Yak- 25 a in their favor.
1948, graduated with a tandem trailer with training wheels on the wingtips with the two machines still some tests. A Yak- 25 was the project " Burlaki " ( Бурлаки, Treidler ) are used. In this case the plane with switched off engine was towed on a rope behind a Tu- 4 as a parasite fighter. In an encounter with enemy fighters, the engine should be started, the Yak- 25 come off the rope and defend the bomber. It remained in experiments.