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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1514.PDF
670 FLIGHT, 26 October 1956 SWEDISH DRAGONS AT a time when most of the world's£\ "major powers" are incessantly har- *- -*• assed by the problem of providing anup-to-date air force on a limited budget, Sweden continues to provide an object lessonin what can be achieved if national resources are properly utilized. Possibly no other nationhas ever been quite so clever in knowing what it wanted in the way of military equipmentand in designing and developing weapons which are as good as, or better than, thoseof other countries with immeasurably greater resources. Elsewhere in this issue we recordthe view, proclaimed last week by an authori- tative speaker, that in quality of air forceequipment Sweden is one of three countries that surpass our own. Of all the recent products of the Swedishaircraft industry, that pictured here is the most remarkable. The Saab-35 Draken wasdesigned to meet a specification, formulated by the Swedish Air Board in 1949, calling fora single-seat aircraft capable of intercepting transonic raiders under all weather condi-tions. It was also laid down that the new intercepter should be highly manoeuvrableand heavily armed with the latest weapons, while retaining the ability to operate frommodest airfields. The "double delta" plan-form of theDraken is today well known, but it is only now possible to refer to certain other features
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