Såtenäs 18 June – from Tummelisa to Gripen

I love that pic of the SAAB 35 Draken. It´s such a beautiful fighter! But what´s wrong with the Gripen? What are those yellow and blue spots?

It´s an enlarged and Swedealized squadron emblem (a paw with claw marks). You see it in its normal size and in low-vis grey on the fin tip.

View from the other side of “131”:

….and in flight:

A few more images from 2 sunny days at F7 Såtenäs:

My first post, good evening gentlemen! 🙂

I love that pic of the SAAB 35 Draken. It´s such a beautiful fighter! But what´s wrong with the Gripen? What are those yellow and blue spots?

A few more images from 2 sunny days at F7 Såtenäs:

My first post, good evening gentlemen! 🙂

Nice pix PL.

Old and new at F7 Såtenäs

A few more :
1. The Swiss team (although I missed their display by leaving early to miss the mad traffic scramble)
2. One of the Breitling team, who put on their usual excellent display – seen them before at La Ferte Alais and Duxford, but it rained so much on both those occasions, this was the first time I had seen their full display – very impressive.
3. There is a rumour that the Swedes are going to buy a few C-17s – the Americans brought one with a couple of tanks to show they can really take the strain.
4. A C-130 showing the flag.
5. The venerable Sk 16 (AT-16) still flies . . .
6-9 as do many Tiger Moths up here in Scandinavia.

Excellent shot Papa Lima. I’ve always loved the Draken and Viggen. Beautiful machines which please the eye no matter from which angle you look at the aicraft.

Excellent shots Papa Lima! It was a great day! Although I have 1:st degree burns on my arms, legs and face! But I’ll live through it! 😀

I found it difficult to get good shots with all the heat blur, and also the sun shining on the wrong side of the runway!

But it was a good airshow! 🙂

Thanks Anna! The last aircraft I worked on was the Tornado that is now in the museum at Cosford – where I should be, apparently! Now I’m in a 1950s time-warp.

😀 😀 ROFL Mothballed 😀 😀 😀 Your as old as you feel 😀 😀

Also note that it cost nothing to get into this magnificent airshow!
Mind you, with Swedish tax being what it is, I have probably already paid 100 times the Duxford Legends price for it!
Strangely, the forthcoming show at Kristianstad (near Malmö) does have a price tag – adults SEK 120, about 8 pounds 30 in UK money. It’ll cost me twice that in petrol to get there!

Shame the RAF didn’t keep some of their older jets for an historic flight. Nice shots btw.

Thanks Anna! The last aircraft I worked on was the Tornado that is now in the museum at Cosford – where I should be, apparently! Now I’m in a 1950s time-warp.

Thanks, Archer, anything built since 1960 is a bit of a mystery to me!

LMAO 😀 😀 Lovely pictures Peter.
POK 😉 Anna 😀

Thanks, Archer, anything built since 1960 is a bit of a mystery to me!

Great to see some less well-known types in the air!

(Your last two photos are an F-16 and a MiG-29 by the way)

Thanks, Kiwi, here is the flying programme for the next display in Sweden to be held at Kristianstad – on my birthday! 26 August:

12.00 SAAB J29 Gul Rudolf
12.10 Bleriot XI
12.20 SAAB JAS 39 Gripen
12.30 Ö1 Tummelisa
12.40 Mirage 2000
12.50 Pitts S2B
13.00 Team 60
13.10 SK11 Tiger Moth
13.20 SAAB J32 Lansen
13.30 G164 Aircat (Wingwalk)
13.40 SK28 de Havilland Vampire
13.50 SAAB B17 Blå Johan
14.00 SAAB SK50 Safir
14.10 Segelflygplan Ugglan
14.20 Hkp 9 Vingarna
14.30 YAK 52
14.40 SK61 Bulldog
14.50 SAAB J35 Draken

I hope to go to that one, too, but must first get myself a Canon EOS and drainpipe! The Minolta Dimage I have is just not up to the job!

Thanks for sharing these shots, it’s very nice to see some of the less common types, especially the Tunnan, Lansen and Draken, I didn’t realize there were any of these types still flying.

Richard.

Some of the heavy metal at Såtenäs

Forgot to add a couple of gripen pix!
1. Labelled up Gripen
2. Some of the loads it can carry, e.g. recce pod, laser designator and laser bombs.
3. Danish F-16 with special tail markings.
4. Hungarian MiG-29