Yak 15 -3

[killnoizer]

Could spent not much time for kitbashing since last year, one new little project is this 3 engined Yak 15.

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I have lost the cockpit hood so it is not original 🙄 .

[Rick Lowe]

Interesting. 

[Dizzyfugu]

Where will the landing gear go? 

[killnoizer]

Where will the landing gear go? 

That little problem ... äähhhmmm 
is a piece of Imagination.

[Charlie_c67]

Where will the landing gear go? 

Harrier and TR-1/U2 style?

[perttime]

Where will the landing gear go? 

Harrier and TR-1/U2 style?

There's an engine on the bottom of the fuselage too. The Yak-15 originally had issues with the engine scorching the tail wheel. And the bottom of the tail.

Perhaps it needs main wheels in the style of P-36 and P-40.
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This must be a very short ranged fighter, with the three engines guzzling the available fuel 

[killnoizer]

I have mounted a base for a droptank under each wing 

[jcf]

I have mounted a base for a droptank under each wing 

Which would be very necessary with three
thirsty early turbojets.

[Old Wombat]

Put it in Japanese markings for the Kamikaze Special Attack Force, that way it can be trolley launched & there's no need for landing gear!


The Idea: Put drop tanks out from the outer engines, for the outward flight; the inner wings are wet for the final approach & attack; 2 x 500lb (or equivalent) armour piercing bombs are mounted in steel tubes either side of the central fuselage.
                          When the aircraft hits its target in a full-power dive the bombs fly forward with all that built up momentum which punches them through the armoured deck & they explode inside the target ship.

[NARSES2]

Put it in Japanese markings for the Kamikaze Special Attack Force, that way it can be trolley launched & there's no need for landing gear!

I'd had similar thoughts, but on the lines of the Me 163. Trolley launched and land on a skid (or 3) when all the fuels run out.

[killnoizer]

Yes, i can place there 3 skids perfect , one under each engine .

But i like the idea to mount a standard landing gear , even if there is no place for it . . . 

The Kamikaze idea should be build another time 👍

[su27rules]

  

[killnoizer]

Basic silver, standard procedure .

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[kerick]

Put it on floats! 
Maybe have the wheels protruding half way out of a fairing under each engine.

[NARSES2]

Put it on floats! 
Maybe have the wheels protruding half way out of a fairing under each engine.

Or pose the pilot sitting in the cockpit high above the clouds scratching his head and thinking " I'm sure those designers forgot something, but for the life of me...."