Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Yak 11

Yakovlev Yak-11 "Czech Mate" 2014 gold heat @ close to 500mph during the Reno Air Races 2014
Voting period ends on 23 Feb 2015  at 18:50:35 (UTC)
 * Reason:Remarkable aircraft running at close to twice its normal operating speed. The Yakovlev Yak-11 (NATO reporting name: "Moose", Як-11) was a trainer aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force and other Soviet-influenced air forces from 1947 until 1962. This Yak is special. During WW II, Russia had used a successful line of fighters from the Yakovlev Design Bureau. Czech Mate had originally been built as a Yak-11, and was last used as a primary trainer in the Egyptian Air Force. A stock Yak-11 can run in the range of 289 mph with its Shvetsov ASh-21 air-cooled radial piston engine, 521 kW (700 hp). Czech Mate is fitted with a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine, boosting the power to approximately 2,200 hp in an airframe that weighs just over 7,200 lbs. In the 2014 Reno Air Race Czech Mate finished 2ed with a average speed of 458.856 mph.


 * Articles in which this image appears:Reno Air Races Yakovlev Yak-11
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air
 * Creator:℅ &#10032; WPPilot &#10032; 123.0 unicomm


 * Support as nominator – talk→   WPPilot   18:50, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Undersize. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:59, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose suggest Speedy Close Undersized, as per Crisco 1492 gaz hiley  19:05, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

--Ṫ Ḧ the fury of the nature given flesh 13:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Speedy close, below minimum requirements Ṫ Ḧ the fury of the nature given flesh 13:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)