@@MrViggie37 I could see that. I tend to look at them all the same and they're not. The AJ is from the 60s. The JA 37 was first delivered in 1979, hard to believe it wouldn't be 4th gen.
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I forgot the Viggen had thrust-reversers. When I first saw this, I thought that he smoking up his brakes but on roll-out, it doesn't make sense that smoke like that would be getting out ahead of the jet.
Wow, reverse thrust works so good, it stops within a very short distance and ... It can do a reverse turn! I've never seen any other jet do that before
I never get tired of watching (and hearing) the "Viggen-turnaround-experience". Fun fact: when doing this demo the tanks of the plane is almost certainly drained quite a lot. It's enough to do the full stop, turn around and take off at full power. I believe it's more or less empty after that. Goes with out saying that these take-offs require minimum amount of runway. Compare take offs of Viggen when leaving an airshow to head home for instance, or even at the start of a display. It's still impressive as far as take off distance goes but there is a significant difference.
Please note thou, compared to other aircrafts, like F-16 for example. During airshows, they fly stripped clean, no pylons etc. Everthing is stripped to avoid drag. The Viggen usually has it dropped tank mounted and all pylons still mounted.
I have lingered around in the air-intakes as a kid. Quite comfortable, smooth and organic I must say. No lint catched from the clothing at all . The norwegians did not clean the runway, so the airplane digested a lot of destroying dust.
As a young paratrooper with the 101st Airborne I landed in a C-130 at Bardufoss for a month long NATO exercise in 1966. The area is 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. I remember seeing the northern lights and the bitter cold at night sleeping in tents. It was quite the adventure to Norway.
Norway bought F-16 (instead) which is also a great airplane ofc in the 80's but they had still demands for short stop and short takeoffs. They outfitted a parachute on their F-16's if I remember correctly to have the same STOL capailities. Their empty weight is almost the same.
I showed this clip to a former Viggen mechanic... He wasn't too impressed with how much dirt the engine must have swallowed during the reversed thrust landing.
Yeah, I bet he wanted to subject the ground crew of that airfield to checking and cleaning all the blades and nozzles and every little detail of that engine etc by hand until he was satisfied...
Lo que muchos conocíamos de este maravilloso SdA, era en teoría y materia gráfica, por publicaciones del rubro, recién cuando "Don RU-vid" nos brinda un servicio globalizado, es cuando podemos verlo en acción, y disfrutar de como un sistema de propulsión comercial es adaptado e instalado en una aeronave militar, con un resultado tanto efectivo como espectacular, siempre de la mano de la ingeniería Sueca...
the brakes are not used for most of the "braking run" as the Thrust reverser is used untill you reach around 100 kph at which point you Switch it of and go to the Wheel brakes. So they dont really have to work that hard.
Well, we decided not to but there were ideas to make stuff like nuclear ammo for the full auto selfpropelled artillery Bkan 1 etc.... Would be kinda overkill though.... We had the oppurtunity but compared to other countries we decided that it was a pretty stupid idea to get nukes, which I guess further supports the brain cooling theory :>
I wouldn't call it beautiful, but one can see it is constructed extremely soundly. The rate of descent, for example, can be as high as 5 meters per second without pulling out! The Saab Viggen should have had more success outside of Sweden.
