Word: yakovlev
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Convinced that the entire network was in the R.C.M.P.'S noose, the government last week summoned Soviet Ambassador Alexander Yakovlev to the Department of External Affairs. He was told that Canada had "irrefutable evidence" of the caper. Yakovlev was handed a stern protest and coldly informed that eleven of his colleagues were being kicked out of Canada; two others, in Moscow on leave, would not be allowed to return...
Like the DC-3. A 27-seat trijet, the YAK can fly on one engine and take off or land on a 1,300-ft.-long dirt strip. It sells for less than $1,200,000. As the designer, Alexei Yakovlev, told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "My ship is a true jet successor to the Douglas DC-3. The YAK-40 can operate out of any field that can take a DC-3, and no other jet transport meets that specification...
Aleksandr Yakovlev, a chief Soviet aviation designer, flashed a wide smile and waved his arm at the line-up of Russian commercial aircraft. "You have never seen anything like this," he said. In the cold, professional judgment of Western aviation experts at the Paris Air Show last week, Yakovlev was right. The Russians were stealing the show...
...aviation experts suggest that the U.S. may have been motivated more by politics than by considerations of safety; the YAK-40 has proved a reliable performer in the East. "The YAK-40 now flies everywhere in Russia, everywhere-little fields, big fields, concrete or grass, dirt or tundra," Designer Yakovlev told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin...