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OptimusMatrix posted:I've always been partial to this video. It's a couple Mirages over northern Africa flying low as hell. There's something with the French and low level flight Puma weaving in and out of traffic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cFAm81wEw KC-135 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OowzP5280mQ
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TheFluff posted:Yeah. Back in the 40's and 50's there were some efforts to develop an indigenous Swedish jet engine business, though. The company working on it, STAL (Svenska Turbinfabriks AB Ljungström; these days the remnants of the business is a company called Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery) had a pretty long history in the power generation business and - among other things - built turbines for a number of power plants, both in Sweden and elsewhere. They had a working engine that they test flew on a surplus Lancaster in the early 50's, but it was too small for the Draken and the air force decided they couldn't wait for an indigenous engine and went to Rolls-Royce instead. I remember reading in some book about the Draken that the planned engine would've been better than the Rolls-Royce Avon if it had been built, but who knows, paper projects are very unreliable creatures and considering they had no real previous experience... Either way, since the air force had been the main financier of the jet engine experiments STAL got out of that business and that was that. Even if they had succeeded, though, they would probably have been swallowed up by one of the big players pretty quickly. What contributed to the demise, was how the British suddenly allowed export of the Avon, thus preventing another European engine manufacturer establishing. I was told that the maintenace hatches on the SAAB Lansen are all slightly misplaced, since the fuselage was originally designed with the STAL "Dovern" in mind.
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Ola posted:
Looks so, yes https://www.google.com/maps/@30.546519,49.1634514,681m/data=!3m1!1e3
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/72316 "Extensive field maintainence and temporary repairs" = new set of wheels, some sheet plastic, and three cases of duct tape https://aviationhumor.net/duct-tape-use-number-1001-repair-a-plane-after-a-bear-attack/ (Tailnumbers match)
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