Yak 7b wing

[Bilbo_Baggins]

Top of the morning to you gentleman,

 

The Yak 7b specifications has both the same wingspan and wing area of the Yak 1, however when in game looking out of the cockpit, the wings look ever so slightly different. It's hard to describe but if you load up the game and look to the side you can see a subtle difference. I was wondering if anyone knows if the construction and design of these machine's wings are the same or if they differed? I was under the impression they were the exact same wing, but the in-game model suggests otherwise. 

 

Regards

[312_Lazy]

You are correct, Yak-7 has different wing shape. Actually Yak-1/3/7/9/9U all have different wing shapes.

Edited November 22, 2019 by 312_Lazy

[Avimimus]

I wonder if that could be why I like flying the very late 'bubble' canopy Yak-7 more than the Yak-9s that were developed out of that variant...?

[Elem]

14 hours ago, Avimimus said:

I wonder if that could be why I like flying the very late 'bubble' canopy Yak-7 more than the Yak-9s that were developed out of that variant...?

But those variants are not in the sim?

[Avimimus]

9 hours ago, Elem said:

But those variants are not in the sim?

 

Il-2 1946 mod... a few year back... I think Karas Barabas was the lead (I might not have remembered how to spell the name correctly). There also weren't very many of them before Yak-9 production took over (so we probably won't see it officially).

 

But the underlying point: A Yak-7 with a Yak-9 cockpit is still very fundamentally a Yak-7.