Test pilots of Yakovlev Design Bureau set world records with Yak-130 aircraft

Press Release

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale registered the records set by the test pilots of Yakovlev Design Bureau flying Yak-130 combat trainer.

The batch of the record flights was performed at the airfield of Gromov Flight Research Institute from 17 to 26 October, 2016. The flight crews consisted of the Hero of Russia Oleg Kononenko, the Hero of Russia Oleg Mutovin, Andrey Voropaev, and Vasily Sevastianov test pilots.

Within the preparation for the records establishment the Honored test-navigator Sergey Kudryashov also took part in the series of flights.

Several Russia's and world records were set for the class of serial land-based turbo-jet aircraft with take-off weight from 6 000 to 9 000 kg (see the table below). The Hero of Russia Roman Taskaev, Yakovlev Design Bureau's Deputy Director General for flight tests, notes: “Record flights have demonstrated both outstanding capabilities of Yak-130 aircraft and masterhood of our test pilots.’’

Record Type	Performance	Crew
Time to climb to a height of 6 000 m	1 min 42 sec	Oleg Kononenko Vasily Sevastianov
Time to climb to a height of 9 000 m	2 min 44 sec	Oleg Kononenko Oleg Mutovin
Time to climb to 3 000 m with 1 000 kg payload	1 min 16 sec	Andrey Voropaev Oleg Kononenko
Time to climb to 6 000 m with 1 000 kg payload	2 min 07 sec	Andrey Voropaev Oleg Mutovin
Time to climb to 9 000 m with 1 000 kg payload	3 min 30 sec	Andrey Voropaev Vasily Sevastianov
Time to climb to 2 000 m with 2 000 kg payload	1 min 17 sec	Vasily Sevastianov Oleg Mutovin
Time to climb to 3 000 m with 2 000 kg payload	1 min 26 sec	Vasily Sevastianov Oleg Mutovin
Time to climb to 6 000 m with 2 000 kg payload	2 min 39 sec	Vasily Sevastianov Andrey Voropaev
Time to climb to 9 000 m with 2 000 kg payload	4 min 43 sec	Vasily Sevastianov Oleg Kononenko