Agg wrote:

DeanW wrote:

capercaillie wrote:But you probably never will.........

Nope, supposedly this airframe has the most flighthours out of any Gripen A in the Swedish inventory!

So, what does that mean? About 50 flying hours?

Haha nah it's around 3000 hours and I'd say that's pretty good

Very nice set

Nice photos! I see some sun came out to shine on the Americans there

Wow stunning! So many good ones. Like how those NH-90s show off their yellow and blue "three crowns"...

Cheers! Like no. 2 and 8

Never too late for a good set of photos!

I like #11 very cool.

Or is it a civilian reg in name only due to it's obvious connections with the Swedish AF Historic Flight? True owner is the Swedish state through the Air Force museum so it's very much civilian... by name, operator and ownership. m I think there's a good chance of getting it to UK shows, not going ...

Fab video from SwAFHF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol8JEO4iAt4

We may have to agree to disagree, capability wise I have no idea, but for coolness I do like the Gripen. Canards are cool! I agree canards are cool and I always loved the European deltas; Draken, Vulcan, Viggen, hey even Mirage Clearly Gripen create some butthurt feelings these days the more it sel...

LN Strike Eagle wrote:I dunno about that - look what's leading the formation.

Beautiful Gripen twinstick. A lean mean killin' machine.

These two photos of the formation as shot by Martin Andersson (standing at Aeromuseum parking lot) look real nice too

http://martan.se/saab75-1.jpg
http://martan.se/saab75-2.jpg

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SwAFHF said on twitter that a youtube movie will hopefully be up this weekend. Viggen flew again (twice) today as well as Draken.

Looking good for April 2 and Saabs birthday...

Just a reference.. as you've probably heard this aircraft is booked for Norway's Bodø airshow 2012 (about 10,000 visitors/day) and that's not exactly a short jump from its home. In a way comparable as going up to flying legends through Europe. Shouldn't be too crazy arranging a UK visit.. some day!

http://bodoairshow.no/?p=1045#more-1045

You can also see some air2air photos on this link shot from the Lansen http://lae.blogg.se/2012/march/saab-aj-37-se-dxn-3.html

30 minute flight. Viggen also had company with a Saab Lansen up in the air Great work.

Yes it's confirmed!

Photo, post-flight champage http://twitter.com/#!/SwAFHF/status/184 ... 80/photo/1

Agg wrote:And since the Viggen is civilian it will also be allowed to display outside of Sweden (like the rest of the aircraft operated by the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight).

Oh that is great indeed!

SE-DXN That is the registration number the Swedish transport agency recently granted the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight for their AJS 37 (37098) Viggen. Now SwAFHF got to provide documents on how they plan to operate the jet to get the airworthiness certificate. Control flight is scheduled befor...

What idiot goes to RIAT dressed in a tiger suit?............ What with that and Capt America it seems the Engineering Team's standards are slipping, I hate to imagine how low they will go next year. TTFN Baghdaddy RIAT hosted the 50th Anniversary celebration of the NATO Tiger Association. So...

Gripen NG will have better sensors than JSF (at least until a MLU), superiour datalink sharing, far better BVR-missiles that offsets a larger rcs, a much more modern and revolutionary architecture. True fighter agility and snappy climb rates, longer range. As for the signatures, it has very likely a...

Naval version of the Gripen NG that is under development at SAAB linköping. The changes to make it naval is not all that major actually.

UK is not the target for sales.

Lovely shots! Especially like the over-head one (276) with ReCon pods - what a great catch.

So the RAF said up to 12 Gripens would show up.

They had bad intel...

Sweden sent 14 Gripens!

Fantastic post! Really cool photos of the flares-release.