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[NovaTempest]

Meet the Yak-14, the largest Glider ever produced by the Soviet Union, and also the first glider to fly over the north pole.



Technical Drawing:

 

• Length: 18.44 m (60 ft 6 in)
• Wingspan: 26.17 m (85 ft 10 in)
• Wing area: 83.35 m² (897.2 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 3,082 kg (6,795 lb)
• Gross weight: 6,750 kg (14,881 lb)
  
  Compared to one of the largest gliders ever produced, the German Me 321:
   
• Length: 28.15 m (92 ft 4 in)
• Wingspan: 55 m (180 ft 5 in)
• Wing area: 300 m² (3,200 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 12,200 kg (26,896 lb)
• Gross weight: 34,400 kg (75,839 lb)

Edited by NovaTempest, 25 October 2019 - 04:35 PM.

[WhoaBlackBetty]

Did it have SOME kind of a heater as it flew over the NORTH POLE?  Good lord those Russians were tough.

 

WBB

[pyantoryng]

IL-20 made into glider...

[NovaTempest]

pyantoryng, on 25 October 2019 - 05:11 PM, said:

IL-20 made into glider...

Or maybe it was the glider made into an IL-20?

Hmm...

Edited by NovaTempest, 31 October 2019 - 03:50 PM.