By Yefim Gordon
'Spy within the Sky’ issues have lengthy been a resource of curiosity and fascination for plane fans, historians and modelers and none extra so than the elusive and secretive Soviet different types of the chilly warfare period. Yefim Gordon offers us right here with a number such forms, proposing a suite of pictures, profiles and line drawings including supplementary textual content detailing the background of every craft, encompassing many of the developmental milestones, successes and pitfalls skilled alongside the way.
The Soviet Union’s committed secret agent aircraft forms, the Yakovlev Yak-25RV ‘Mandrake’ (the Soviet identical of the Lockheed U-2) and the MiG-25R ‘Foxbat’ are profiled, supplemented via info garnered from a number of unique sources.
Well-illustrated histories and structural analyses are set along designated descriptions of some of the plastic scale version kits which have been published, besides statement bearing on their accuracy and to be had changes and decals.
With an unheard of point of visible details - paint schemes, types, line drawings and pictures - it's easily the simplest reference for any model-maker getting down to construct a version of this iconic craft.
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The aileron control circuit incorporates a centrally located BU-8Yu irreversible hydraulic actuator. There is also a small tank holding petrol to facilitate engine starting/relight. The hydraulic system is powered by an NP-24 pump driven by the starboard engine’s accessory gearbox. There are two pneumatic systems used for landing gear, flap, wheel brake and camera bay door operation, as well as for sealing the canopy. The avionics suite includes an OSP-48 Materik (Continent) instrument landing system (with an ARK-9 automatic direction finder), an RSIU-5 UHF communications radio, an SRO-2M Khrom-Nikel’ (Chromium-Nickel; NATO Odd Rods) identification friend-or-foe (IFF) transponder etc.
The ejection seat is cast in polyester resin. Today, the Prop & Jet kit is no longer in production and has become a rarity. The Prop & Jet Yak-25RV kit box art showing the aircraft in the Monino museum.
Acknowledgements This book is illustrated by photos by: Yefim Gordon, Chris Lofting, Sergey Skrynnikov, Mikhail Sidel’nikov, Sanjay Simha, Dmitriy Komissarov, Sergey Burdin, Chris Dewhurst and the archive of Yefim Gordon. Colour artwork: Vasiliy Zolotov, Viktor Mil’yachenko. Scale drawings: Vladimir Klimov. ru. ‘Soviet U-2’ The Yakovlev Yak-25RV As early as 1951 the Moscow-based OKB-115 design bureau led by Aleksandr S. Bearing the in-house designation Yak-120, the aircraft was a two-seater (the crew consisted of the pilot and a radar intercept officer).