The Air Show (Part 1): More photos of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen
Hello!
Since the photo I published two days ago wasn't the only one taken of the jet, I decided to make a post dedicated to only the Gripen aircraft.
The Swedish Air Force ("Svenska flygvapnet") brought three of their JAS ("jakt-, attack- och spaningsplan", "air-to-air, air-to-ground and recoinnance aircraft", e.g. "multirole") fighter-jets to fly at the FAS 100 Year Birthday air show, so I think I should tell something about them.
The JAS 39 Gripen is a a light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft that was designed by Saab AB (in late 1970's to late 1980's) to replace the older 35 Draken and 37 Viggen jets in Flygvapnet. The first flight was made in 1988.
It is equipped with both a delta-wing and a canard to add relaxed stability (basically to help with attitude & angle maneuverability), and a fly-by-wire flight control system (FCS).
The Swedish Air Force has 80 of the original 204 ordered JAS 39 Gripens in service, while additional 28 are leased to Czech and Hungarian Air Forces. 12 were sold to the Thai Royal Air Force.
Today, Saab is under contract with the Swedish government to provide the Svensk flygvapnet 60 new modernized Gripen E version aircrafts with new radar and weapons systems by the end of 2018.
Does it look a bit like a space craft from a sci-fi movie?
It has been designed so that it can land on a short road strip for service and/or land missions.
"Mach 2"
Landing sequence started.
Interesting albeit a bit worrisome tidbit about the development of the Gripen fighter jets is that before they were even fully developed, they managed to crash twice (1989 and 1993), latter one straight in the middle of Stockholm during a water festival. (No-one died fortunately.)
The JAS 39 Gripen is one of the candidates to replace the Finnish Air Forces' current F/A-18 Hornets.
Landing successful!
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Beautiful Air Show Photography @gamer00 . Beautiful Short and interesting . Well done keep it up
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Hi gamer. Good photos and a interesting story to match. I wander what the planes will look like in the next 20 years with the technology advancements. Maybe battery powered instead of jet engines.
A fighter jet must maintain a very high thrust-to-weight ratio and electric engines simply don't cut it.
The coming decades will probably bring better sensor fusion and AI to assist the pilot. The key is to integrate all information from all assets in the area and in space into a complete, accurate and rapidly updated picture of the situation enabling timely decisions.
Excellent pictures Jaro, ajajajajjaja obviously is not the only one, if you took more than a thousand
yeah sir i like them tho but i wish i could buy beer for you😃😃
Used to live near the airport and was looking at the planes through our balcony quite often as a kid. These photos kind of remind me of that time. Really like the ones in the air!
Great shots you have taken. The object is moving, so with which lens did you take this shot.
Thanks! It was the 75-300 mm kit lens.
wow some interesting shot you shared from the air show nice to see that and is all the shots manually taken with special setting or auto ?
They are all taken on manual settings.
wow, You captured it in the air! nice photography.
The jet looks like very sharp,
Czech Republic Bought them? But why? :/ Czech Republic is very peaceful country as far as i know.
Thanks!
Well it doesn't really matter if the country is peaceful or not, most countries need an air force.
OH yes, you are right, for the safety of their people!
Nice piece mate and really like the photos. Scary that no one ever mentions how much went wrong before they got it right. Wish Saab would start building cars again. Have a good one
Yes they built exceptionally good cars. I loved my mom's Saab 900i that I got to drive when I got the driver's license. It was built like a tank, and withstood all my stupid youthful mishaps, driving into trenches, muddy fields (getting the car covered in that shit), light poles, spinning and hitting the wheel into the edge of the pavement, and also getting stuck on a ledge swinging without wheels touching the ground.
Apart from the trench, spinning and lightpole that really made some dents, I didn't tell her of most of these.
;-S
(She didn't have to know.)
The Saab 900 had proper bumpers. You could actually hit stuff with that without breaking hundreds if not thousands of euros worth of parts and structures.
Yup, they sure as hell don't build to many cars like that anymore.
great pictures! is to admire your work sir
Thanks!