Will Whiteside’s Yak-3U SteadFast, instrumented to send GPS-based data to a National Aeronautic Association ground station, climbs through 10,000 feet in pursuit of world records. Lyle Jansma ...

The original Yak design, powered by a liquid-cooled inline engine, made its mark as a Soviet fighter in World War II ... Will Whiteside set a new speed record— 416 mph for a three-kilometer ...

The Yak-141 was the Soviet Union’s boldest attempt at a supersonic, carrier-based vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter. Developed in the 1980s, it set 12 world records and was engineered ...