Americans crossed two Yak-55s and got the Yak-110 - a monster with three engines

Craftsmen in the USA assembled a unique Yak-110 aircraft with a reference to the Soviet designer Alexander Yakovlev. They literally spliced two Soviet Yak-55s and added a General Electric jet engine to the Frankenstein. The car amuses the public at air shows and reminds Americans of Soviet aircraft construction.

How the Yak-110 was born

In the early 2010s, American restorer and aircraft mechanic Dell Coller, together with aerobatics champion Jeff Bourbon, decided to combine two Yak-55s into a single aircraft.

This is how the Yak-110 appeared - a unique hybrid with two fuselages, an additional General Electric CJ610-6 jet engine and a pair of M-14 piston engines.

The aircraft was first presented to the public at an air show in Idaho in 2018, and the audience was delighted.

The world's only "triple" aircraft

The creators swear that the Yak-110 is the only three-engine aircraft in the world certified for unlimited aerobatics.

At the same time, they emphasized that they did not assign authorship to themselves - theofficial website of the project directly indicates who the designer Yakovlev is and what the Yak-55 is.

Why it is worth telling about it in Russia

Although strictly technically the Yak-110 did not become a revolution, its history is a rare example of respect for the Soviet engineering school. The project reminded Americans that many sports cars come from the USSR.

Although the basic Yak-55 model, which took off in 1981, is a legend in itself. On it, Soviet pilots Nikolai Nikityuk and Viktor Smolin won prizes at the World Aerobatics Championships in 1984, and Khalide Makagonova became the absolute champion.

Yak-55 aircraft were built at the Progress plant in Arsenyev, a total of 214 vehicles were produced (108 Yak-55 and 106 Yak-55M). Production ceased in 1993, but about 50 copies ended up in the USA, where they still fly.

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