Collings Viggen? Is this true?
Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:08 pm
I was just over at the local Borders book store.
(I dont read books, Shannon drags me there!)
I was doing my usual, looking at all the magazines and stuff. (Gotta have pictures!)
The issue of Flypast said that a two seat Saab Viggen will be delivered to the CF for preservation?
(I dont read books, Shannon drags me there!)
I was doing my usual, looking at all the magazines and stuff. (Gotta have pictures!)
The issue of Flypast said that a two seat Saab Viggen will be delivered to the CF for preservation?
Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:21 pm
What does that look like?
Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:23 pm
Preservation as a flyer I hope! That would be COOL to see at airshows.
Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:42 pm
That thing has a BIG burner on there too. It really shakes the ground when this baby flies! 
SAAB makes some AWESOME jets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7_LHN89ds
SAAB makes some AWESOME jets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7_LHN89ds
Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:51 pm
The engine is based on the JT-8.
Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:51 pm
RickH wrote:The engine is based on the JT-8.
So are ya'll getting one or not?
Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:07 pm
Looks like it, it's already been deeded to the Foundation. It's the last flying Viggen in Sweden.It's an SK which is the two place.
Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:20 pm
Ohhhhhh man, I can't wait to see this one. I love SAAB's 
Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:39 am
The proposed Viggen is one of the two last airworthy aircraft, SK 37E two-seated ECM version. The other will hopefully keep flying with the Swedish AF Historic Flight.
I don’t think the Swedish authorities will allow it to fly overseas ‘just like that’. However, they didn’t want the Drakens or Lansens to fly in the US either...
(I believe I have some shots of the Viggen ‘family’ in action: www.daniel-k.com)
I don’t think the Swedish authorities will allow it to fly overseas ‘just like that’. However, they didn’t want the Drakens or Lansens to fly in the US either...
(I believe I have some shots of the Viggen ‘family’ in action: www.daniel-k.com)
Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:54 am
daniel-k wrote:The proposed Viggen is one of the two last airworthy aircraft, SK 37E two-seated ECM version. The other will hopefully keep flying with the Swedish AF Historic Flight.
Strange.........you would have thought that if they intended to keep one airworthy with the AFHF, and I hope they do, it would have made sense to keep the other one as well as a back-up reserve airframe in storage...??
If they don't won't a Viggen flying outside of Sweden there must be plenty of other already retired examples that could have been donated...??
Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:59 am
why is a viggen going to collins? i thought collins was a US only collection IE no foreign aircraft?
Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:22 am
that thing is sweet. an original swedish design, no big boy influence in that design either. the swedes have always been very inovative in aircraft design, never ripping off other countries technology.
Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:41 am
Caroline Collings spearheaded the donation of the Swedish fighter to the Foundation...since she is Swedish...it was quite the coup.
JimH
JimH