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Attack Yak

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Designer Alexander Yakovlev’s Russian fighter has always lived in the shadows of the more glamorous fighters like the Mustang and Spitfire. Its only advantage over these airplanes was that it could be manufactured much more quickly and in far greater numbers than its Allied counterparts. The Alpine Fighter Collection’s Yak 3, flown by Tom Middleton, sits framed against the New Zealand Southern Alps, to the west of its home field of...

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