The Czech Gripen display is easily THE best out there. The Czech display at Waddington changed my opinion of the aircraft completely, much better than the Swedes at RIAT this year, and Hungarians last year, a really good display. The new Swedish display pilot from F7 base that was sent to the UK no...

Loads of stars in that series of shots! Apache and final Gripen for me.

Cool. PAF. The Chinese purchased drawings from Russia and it uses a Russian engine for the first 100 jets. Will be replaced by Chinese engine in the future. License produced and developed with Pakistan. Originally planned to fly with various western avionics such as Italian Radar but EU arms blockad...

What the official web lists as;

SAAB
Grippen

Is supposed to be;

SAAB
Gripen NG Demonstrator

Arrival: Monday, 19 July, for static until 23rd.

Just wanted to say thanks

The fuel vent pipe is located there on the JAS 39A-D models.

Gripen has system pressurized tanks and the pipe is connected to the Controlled Vent Unit and pressure regulator in the vent tank. The design also has flame arrestor.

Not the first Gripen to do this.

F-35 sounds like a fog horn on take-offs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ku0n_PBGro

Some great shots there Stu, kicking myself for not going to 26 now On a side note I thought all the saab's were white? Argus is a AEW platform and all those are gray. They're modifying some of them at the moment which might explain the missing EriEye antenna but that's just my own guess. Very nice ...

Another reason to visit the states

Excuse my noobiness, but what is a priority airframe? Thanks again people. In short it's a airframe of a major new version they assign extra flight hours to so it will stay ahead of everyone else in case they find bugs after a while... they also got "PRI" written on the fins. I think ther...

Dunk wrote:

Hey Dunk that's not only a awesome photo... it's of a rare skull and bones priority airframe

Close up from A. Walker.

Pretty much enjoy them all. Nice variation!

LeeHathaway wrote:Great shots Brian, paired Gripens landing as well as the head on U-2 shots are superb. Thanks for your company today

Totally agree! Thanks Brian.

Wonderful last shot.

How many Tonkas is out there now in total?

Nice shots! Plenty of fuel on those Gripens.

Nice set. I actually like the sleeping Gripen and also the Tonka under it on the page...

Czech Gripen at NATO days.

Pass 2 and 4 is kind of nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EsOCYG0L-w

Haven't seen flares at airshows from the new euro-canards that much at all so I wanted to share this.