A few photographs from the aircraft musuem at F10 Ängelholm.
WW2 pilot's barracks milieu.
Cobbler's field repair set. Because armies don't literally march on their stomachs, not even the air force.
Austrian air force uniforms, from when they came over to learn to fly Draken.
For the chaplain.
Remains of a J20 (Reggiane Falco)
FFVA J22
The unlicensed Pratt&Whitney Twin Wasp that powered the J22.
J28C, de Havilland Vampire
J29F
A bit cramped at times for the photography.
Beer cooler ventilation holes.
RM1, de Havilland Goblin 2.
RM6C, used in Saab 35 from J35D and onwards.
J35J
Stuffing Viggen in a corner most certainly meant no full profile photos. In this case it's SF37, the photo recon version.
Presumably not standard issue.
As it lacked radar I wonder if SF37 could really use Rb04. Still, gotta hang it under something in the museum I guess.
>>35049381
Bloodhound I presume.
>>35050158
Yep, Rb 68 in the Swedish armed forces.
And here's the biggest remaining chunk of a MÃ¥lrobot 02 target drone that tried its best to jam an incoming Bloodhound.
>79 posts ITT
>2 posters
Jesus Christ
>>35050194
Image floods tend to be quite quiet affairs. Though this one has been rather calm even by those standards.
>>35049375
these are great keep em coming op
>>35049536
>unlicensed
Savages.
Operational costs per flight hour comparison, which I'm sure will in all parts be completely uncontroversial.
Sadly no Meteor dummy to be seen, despite the tail markings.
>>35050249
Well, US authorities did stop delivery of the Seversky P-35 halfway through an already paid batch of them. Any way, it all got sorted to after the war in some large tech transfer deal. I can't quite recall what P&W got paid for it, it was either a crown or a dollar.
>you will never EVER be a dictator in a small banana state with your personal saab 35/37 air force
Assorted radios.
>>35050189
Nice.
Looking at that Draken on this thread and every other Draken I have seen on your museum trip threads I'm starting to wonder if pic related in Finnish aviation museum is last Draken with both guns still installed. Second gun was later on removed to make more room for more electronics on Drakens. Before it was donated to museum, bunch of mechanics removed all the upgrades and dug up original gun mount, gun and inner wing root panel from from some dark corner of some air force depot. Also the original canopy was found somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiwLxnUaeY8
>>35050400
A to D variants had both guns, so I guess the question is how many of those are still around. E was an unarmed recon plane, F and J had the left gun bay filled with missile managing hardware.
As a small tangent, Hasegawa's 1/72 Draken tooling has never been boxed as a D or earlier, but it still has gun ports on both sides.
As for the Finnish air force, apparently they kept a lot of extra J35 pilots around (the peace treaty with the USSR limiting the number of fighter planes they could have). Meanwhile, the Swedish air force had a lot of spare J35 which were, for some reason, carefully mothballed instead of scrapped.
>>35050472
C was also unarmed it seems, they were made by taking old A and rebuilding them into two seat trainers. Converting them back to single seat fighters again would apparently have been quite easy.
In case of unexpected visitors.
Traffic management.
Winter flying gear, early forties.
Because going pup in a Hawker Hart in northern Finland during the winter war probably wasn't very hot.
Early intercom system. High reliability, cheap to maintain.
F10 is down in southernmost Sweden, so during WW2 a number of foreign airmen showed up, either because they felt done with the war, or because their aircraft were done with the war.
Yossarin didn't read between the lines in time though.
That's mostly it.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/25ykhhhi3eey04q/F10_Flygmuseum.zip
>>35050722
TY!
>>35050472
>A to D variants had both guns, so I guess the question is how many of those are still around. E was an unarmed recon plane, F and J had the left gun bay filled with missile managing hardware.
I'm quite well aware of how much space it took to unfuck Falcon. Finnish Drakens also had neat South African ECM system with quite Israeli origins squeezed in there. As I don't have any real experience only with retired airframes used as instruction material, I still managed to learn couple things about common sense with DK, fuel system can retain pressure for over decade after engine is removed and if you ever touch
>As for the Finnish air force, apparently they kept a lot of extra J35 pilots around (the peace treaty with the USSR limiting the number of fighter planes they could have). Meanwhile, the Swedish air force had a lot of spare J35 which were, for some reason, carefully mothballed instead of scrapped.
That is one way of coping around WWII peace treaty with limitation of air force to 60 fighters. BAE Hawks are in no way combat aircraft and same applies to D-model Hornets. Also integrating R-60 Hawk is merely a rumor. It is highly unlikely that SAAB car importer in US giving some campaign donations to various politicians had nothing to do with Finland getting export permits for all aspect version of Sidewinder for Drakens. That was when car and aircraft side were still actually same company. Alternative would have been integrating all aspect version of R-60 to DK.