The Yak-52 is a Russian aircraft that was the primary trainer for the Soviet Military. It only holds 32 (27 imperial) gallons of gas. That’s not much! I was told previously by my flight instructor that Russia made them like that so no one could defect. LOL Who knows, but when it burns up to 24 gallons per hour, you can imagine how long that would make a cross country flight. We were basically stopping to refuel every 1.5 hours. (Of course, the average fuel burn is about 15 GPH. The high fuel con
