Hi Craig, pls check out too, my Vid about another russian Radial, the Polikarpow I 16 Rata. Search at my channel too for my flight in the P 51 with stick time. Cheers, Axel

hi, russion aircraft using often pressure reservoir. Too for gear retracting and brakes

Axel Knoetig I remembered that and the gear up/down indicators are rods in the wings that rise and lower with the gear.

indeed, like at Yak 9- 11 too. The russions had an own tchnolgical philosophie.

Danke Dir, war zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort.

Thx, i used an external microfone for the Smartphone for better sound. thx

pls, what is dcs?

@@corvette724 digital combat simulator

ah, ok,i'm Gaming WT.

@@corvette724 also nice sim:)

check out my channel. Had 2 times stick time in the real P 51 Mustang

never recognized. Russians do a lot of things different. May direction is only controlled by the brakes of main gear?

It may be two years too late to reply, but if you still don't know, the Yak-52 (and many Soviet aircraft of the era including the Mig-21) have a pneumatic brake system, not like a truck though (although the Yak-52 does have it's own air compressor) more like air-powered bicycle brakes, activated by a spring-loaded handle on the stick, when you pull the handle, it let's air through the braking system, and before it makes it's way to the wheels, it passes by the pedals; if you push the left pedal, it only sends air to the left brake, push the right pedal and air only gets to the right brake. Once you get used to it, you can taxi smoothly, but you do need practice. Also, on the Yak-52 the gear and flaps are also pneumatically controlled, I think it's better than hydraulics, you can run out of hydraulic fluid but you can always pump more air into the system.

Hi, i had a flight in the AT 6 too. Cheers, Axel