Scale: 1:20
Span: 17.5"
Length: 14.5"

By the middle of the 1980s, Sukhoi had brought out the all-composite SU-26, and Yakovlev were spurred on to produce an aircraft with yet greater performance. Many feel that the result, the Yak-55M, was somewhat of a technological blind alley, since it reduced the wingspan of the ?55, which succeeded in a higher rate of roll but at the expense of increased induced drag. Therefore in a competition sequence, although the ?55M will roll faster, it will actually lose more height than the ?long-wing? ?55.