Description
Heiko Herling flies his beautiful Reno Racer at the pilots meet 2025
Scale 1/3.35
Wingspan: 250 cm / 110 inches
Engine: Moki 300 cc with SEP 34x18 2-blade propeller
Weight: 25.0 kg / 55 lbs achieved through consistent lightweight construction with small batteries, 750 ml fuel tank, omission of cockpit, smoke system, 2-blade propeller instead of scale 3-blade, and Pahl super-lightweight tires.
Scale lighting.
Kit from Airworld as a Yak-11
STORY ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT:
The Yakovlev Yak-3U #33 “Steadfast” is powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-2000 7M2 radial engine with 1,750 HP and was built in 2005 for breaking records. Will Whiteside broke the world speed record for an piston-engine powered aircraft of less than 6,600 lbs. This record was held since 1935 by Howard Hughes in his H1 racer, and was only broken in 2002 by an H1 replica. Flying his Yak-3U “Steadfast”, Whiteside broke the record at 407 mph, beating the H1 replica by 102 mph.
At the National Championship Air Races at Reno between 2006 and 2012, winning one Unlimited Silver title and coming fourth in Unlimited Gold.
Currently its holding nine speed and time-to-height records.
Today the aircraft is based at Omaka Airfield near Blenheim, New Zealand with owners Mark O’Sullivan and Ronan Harvey.