Yak-15: The first Soviet jet fighter, the prototype first flew on 24 April 1946. It's basically a Yak-9 converted to use a Russian copy of the Junkers Jumo 004B jet engine. The tail wheel was solid steel because it was positioned close to the jet exhaust where a conventional rubber-tired wheel would quickly be burned off. Olga Yamschickova, a Yak employee flew a prototype not long after the first flight and was probably the first woman to fly a turbojet-powered fighter. This is a Turkish PM kit I built about 1990.
