Saab 32 Lansen & AJ 37 Viggen | w/ Alf Ingesson-Thoor 

My father flew the Viggen for about 10 years before Switching to Gripen on which he has over 15 years now. He still loves the Viggen it’s his favorite over Gripen

@@oskforalltid just a thought, maybe, interview your dad, ask him about his Viggen days..... doesn't nee to be Hollywood standard, we would love the hear his history.

@@oskforalltid According to "Duke", the viggen was more of a hands on plane where you had to maneuver a lot manually, were as Gripen can fly good on it self. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x31Zjhb2C4Q.html quite interesting interview

I remember Ingesson-Thoor flying the Saab Safir (Sk50) at airshows. He did a very interesting landing; flying downwind over the runway, pulling up, climbing "a little", going inverted, looping down while putting the gear down and then landing "easy piecey" into the wind. Always impressed me. There are a few videos of him flying the Safir (brilliantly so) at airshows, but I haven't found this particular landing though.

@@bodan1196 My own experience was watching a Viggen display at an airshow in the 1970s, and it was very impressive, much more so than I expected. At the same show I spoke to a USAF colonel, a liaison officer who had recently been observing an exercise of the Swedish Air Force. His comment was "I am not allowed to talk details but I am very glad we would be fighting alongside them not against them."

Cheers!

@@Roger_Gustafsson Thanks for the correct spelling. Yes pitch sensitivity probably due to its short length

Kite too

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks Ian.

The Swedish planes have always designed with our country’s landscape in mind as well as the strategic option of being able to start and land on short country roads in order to be able spread our planes out in the case of war.

Thanks mate.

@@Aircrewinterview YW, I live 5mins from where the interview took place. :9 Seen Alf in many airshows.

No Saab made Draken and Viggen after Lansen and now the Gripen

@@pungskum I think you missed the point there. The "aircraft" following the Lansen wasn't aircraft, they were platforms meant to carry weapons.

@@mooneyes2k478 aah! I see it now. 🙂. My bad. Lost in translation 😋

@@pungskum :)

@@mooneyes2k478 Exept then of course for civilian aircrafts of which Saab continued to make long after that.

Not almost. They did get a radar lock. theaviationgeekclub.com/viggen-vs-blackbird-swedish-air-force-ja-37-fighter-pilots-able-achieve-radar-lock-legendary-sr-71-mach-3-spy-plane/

Swedish Viggen pilots escorted a damaged Black Bird and fended of several attempts of Warsaw Pacts fighters to force it down. This was classified and just recently was made public. The Swedish airmen was reward uS Air medals for saving that plane and crew! www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/12/30/finally-declassified-swedish-pilots-awarded-us-air-medals-for-saving-sr-71-spy-plane/

Not almost..

In, those days i’m not so sure. If it did occure, it was definitely rare occasions. But I served in the army so I barely had first hand information about what the airforce (Flygvapnet) were up to.

Because of politics. "You have to buy our aircraft, or we won't supply you with other forms of weapon systems." Notably, Finland got the F18 because the US said they wouldn't sell missiles if they didn't. And, while the plane might be better, it needs to be armed.

Cheers Ian.

@iskadartaib It's not based on the Bü181, it just has the same designer. To say that it is, is like saying that the Mona Lisa is based on Leonardo da Vincis' earlier works.

Cheers!

More low lwvel, bigger formations, more weapontraining

@@alfingesson-thoor1425 Tack Alf. Jag föreslog denna intervjun med dig. Kunde ju ha varit dubbelt så lång, med all ditt engagemang även med historiska flygningen på senare år. Inspirerande.

@@alfingesson-thoor1425 I was curious about that also. When I was a boy in the 70's the Viggen was an aircraft that fascinated me and I did not imagine that one day I would hear the testimony of a Viggen pilot. Thank you.

Draken

Saab J-35 Draken

@AdurianJ This sounds hilarious! And yes, Swedish pilots were crazy. But also crazy good at their job.

"En undulat med ett cigarettmunstycke uppkört i röven" ;)

@@andersnoren6070 Thanks ! :-) ... Now I see why they went for "barrel" instead.

Of course, I´m swedish :)

@@alfingesson-thoor1425 skulle du vilja kolla på AJS-37:an i DCS World? Det är alltså den mest realistiska flygsimulator just nu. Hur likt verkar det? Tack för svar:)

@@kowalski7689 Vore intressant

@@alfingesson-thoor1425 har du tittat på någon simulator på dator? Någon du rekommenderar?

It's a generational issue as before the internet and wide range of global programs you could watch and follow on national Swedish television, later generations could learn a lot more a but english pronunciations/accent just by following british films and TV-series on national TV. He is born in the 1940's or 50's so it is perfectly ok for a Swede in his generation who has not worked most of his life abroad and what is worse is some of our Swedish politicians and great business leaders from the same generation not talking much better english one he does despite almost twenty years in fine schools. But i am certain you already knew it.

Bra namn