This guy in Yak-50 photographed by Herve Champain (herve@lpd700.lpd.supelec.fr:1999) calls himself
"Mad Russian"... Sounds nasty, but David Sutton provided
history of this nickname!; See more planes and pilots (not all mad!)
on impressive Herve's Page;
Yak-50 is a single seat aerobatic/trainer taildragger with retractable main gear.