Noisy, thirsty, powerful and fun, the Yak-52 is a big hit with pilots – but what does Alan Cassidy think of it?
A LOOP with a flick roll in the top was always called a ‘Porteous Loop’ (named after pilot Ranald Porteous) when I was a University Air Squadron student at Cambridge in the late 1960s.
Making a good entrance and exit is vital for a competition aerobatic pilot. Just as it is for an actor. Polish those thespian skills.
OVER the past two years I have covered various aerobatic manouevres and we have now exhausted most of them. So, our plan for the next few months is to write more about individual aerobatic aircraft...
LAST month I discussed ‘Handling’ of aerobatic aircraft. I tried to explain good handling characteristics and to relate these to design characteristics found on modern aircraft.
MY very first instructional sortie as an 18-yearold student pilot was in a 1966, French-built Cessna 150F that was then only a year old.