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Artiklar med svensk anknytning

Tack vare hjälpsamheten hos Svedinos museum kunde jag ta en del närbilder av prototyp nr.1.                       Riktiga flygplan är byggda i korrugerad plåt.  Till min glädje fanns det en bit även här.                 […]

SAAB 35-1 Drakenprototypen

Sitter och tittar på gamla bilder så jag tänkte försöka skanna av en del. Tyvärr verkar skannern vara en dammagnet hur jag än gör så ni får stå ut med prickiga bilder. Hittade dessa bilder av Hkp 9A från flygdagen på Bromma 1998.     Bilder: Björn Bäcklund

Hkp 9A Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm MBB 105

by Martin Waligorski Radical? Yes! The unorthodox SAAB J 21 fighter was a domestic attempt to provide the Swedish Air Force with a true high performance fighter. It’s design was conducted during war years, when there was no practical possibility for Sweden to acquire modern aircraft from abroad. Photo: SAABIn […]

SAAB J21 in Detail

text and photos by Andreas Samuelsson The Last AJS 37 Viggen of F 10 As JAS 39 Gripen is being delivered to frontline units of the Swedish Air Force, time has come for the Viggen to leave the scene. Next unit in line for re-armament is the 1st Squadron of […]

Farewell to Viggen

Wing  by Martin Waligorski Delta Force Another in-flight shot gives a good idea about wing shape. The upper surface is very clean… Photo: SAAB …unlike the wing’s underside, where all hinges and pylons have resulted in long chordwise fairings. Photo: SAAB Close-up of the dogtooth on the leading edge. Photo: […]

JAS 39 Gripen in Detail, Part 2

by Martin Waligorski Time for Gripen JAS 39 Gripen is arguably the most modern lightweight multi-role aircraft in the world. The Gripen is now operational with the Swedish air force. Flygvapnet has purchased 204 Gripens, to equip 12 squadrons when all aircraft have been delivered. The anticipations for the new […]

JAS 39 Gripen in Detail, Part 1

Swedish version of the German Leopard II by Kjell Svensson English translation by Anders Isaksson History The Leopard II was developed in the seventies after the joint US/German effort to develop a new main battle tank, the MBT-70, was brought to a halt and the project cancelled. The new main […]

Strv 121 in Detail

by Frank Spahr photos by Martin Waligorski Elegance and Longevity: Hawker Hunter The Hawker Hunter is a classic plane with a long and exciting history. It was designed between the close of WW II and the Korean War, the latter even hastening (and complicating) its development, in the real beginnings […]

Hawker Hunter in Detail

Model by Mikael Forslund Text and photos by Martin Waligorski With war raging in Europe, Sweden was eagerly looking for modern aircraft to strengthen its air defenses. In 1939, the Swedish government commission in the US approached Vultee in search for a modern fighter type for the Swedish Air Force. […]

Adventures into the Esoteric

By Dan Kut additional photos by Robert Lundin A couple of years ago someone on this site’s discussion forum asked for cockpit pictures of the Swedish Skyraider target tug. That somehow dwelled in the corner of my mind, waiting for the perfect moment to strike… Then when a friend of […]

Douglas Skyraider in Detail

text by Martin Waligorski photos by Peter Alsterberg Sometimes it is difficult to know why modellers get particularly interested in certain subjects – they just do. Göran Sebardt’s has meticulously built this collection of Tp2s – pre-war Junkers W 33/34s in Swedish service. The collection consists of only few aircraft […]

Tp2 (Junkers W 33/34) in Swedish Service

by Martin Waligorski Photos: Martin Waligorski Everyone’s favourite Many aircraft historians would agree that the only pre-war German aircraft type not matched by the Allies throughout the entire conflict was the lightweight Fieseler Fi 156 Storch. Popular among the Germans, their allies as well as their counterparts, the Fi 156 […]

Fieseler Fi 156 Storch in Detail

by Martin Waligorski The Hawker Hart and its many derivations, the Demon, Audax, Hardy, Hind, Osprey and Hector must have been the multi-role aircraft of the 1930s. Constructed by Sydney Camm, the prototype Hart flew for the first time in 1928 with production machines reaching RAF service in 1930. A […]

Hawker Hart in Detail