philo
December 13, 2001 at 5:55 pm

Picture of the day 13/12/01

I was wondering what happened to this Draken, i think this was the one and only time i saw it , at Woodford some years back.
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By: Christer - 13th December 2001 at 18:15

RE: Picture of the day 13/12/01

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 13-12-01 AT 06:39 PM (GMT)]Phil,
now You make an old swedish hearth bleed. Even if it´s on the danish register, owned(?) and operated by the norwegian Scandinavian Historic Flight (Anders Saether), it´s still a swedish design.
By some it´s been called “the worlds most expensive fuel to noise converter” and that old Avon (licence built by Volvo) really gulped the brew. With internal fuel there was something like 50 minutes of business so, after 5 minutes you were down on your reserves.
If my memomory serves me correctly, at some time, there was legal dispute regarding ownership during which the aircraft was impounded.
This has, to my knowledge, since been settled and it´s operated by SHF. (I could be wrong though.)

Regards,
Christer

Here´s the link to SHF:

http://www.shf.as/shf_docs/index.htm

When you find the Draken and it quotes a longer endurance, it´s for the danish version with more internal fuel and drop tanks!