Yesterday at Kaipara Flats airfield it was a bit too windy for the microlights but not for Brett Hempell's "new" Yak 52 ZK-RUS2 which flew up from North Shore to do a modern version of a compass swing on the grass.
This Yak was originally built in 1989 in Romania with the Russian registration RA-02956, moved onto the UK briefly in March 2005 as G-CBPX before settling in South Africa in October 2005 as ZU-RUS. It was imported into NZ in early 2024.
After a coffee Brett and Christoph climbed aboard for the start procedure.
The Yak is called "Russian Thunder".
Then it was back to North Shore. A very colourful aircraft!
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