SAAB design sketches

franc,
The only SAAB design sketches I have found are these, for SAAB project 1300-76. Thet are from an Aricle by Bo Widfeldt in “Flyg 92”, the Swedish aviation annual.
I must say that this article would be very interesting for SAAB aficionados, with sketches of projects from 1935 onwards, including the L-23 fighter which was virtually a Mustang. Designed in 1941, it was planned to have an ejection seat!
The 1300 series projectwas begun in 1952 to design a successor to the Draken, and 1300-76 shown here would have been powered by a Bristol Olympus engine.At heightit would have been capable of Mach 2.4, and Mach 1.3 at low height, armed with missiles. The project was abandoned in 1957.
The Viggen was the result of project 1504B, but I have no details of that project.

Midland Compound 1042

Begging the Forum’s indulgence, here is a picture to show younger members what we are talking about – in this case at Nottingham Midland station in 1926, these were also affectionately known as “Crimson Ramblers”.
Photo by the late T.G. Hepburn

Been snowing in Gothenburg for weeks . . .
(Uncommon here on the west coast, actually)
The met people say Sweden’s spring is two weeks delayed.

Vulcan incident at Wellington, NZ

Scanned from page 54 of “Avro Vulcan” by Robert Jackson

Viggen prototype 37-71

Courtesy of “Svensk Flyghistorisk Tidskrift”, the journal of the Swedish Aviation Historical Society, of which I am a member, here is a Saab-Scania photograph of prototype Viggen 37-71, after modification to JA (Fighter/Attack) standard. The original RM8A engine had been replaced by an RM8B, which meant a lengthening of the fuselage. The modifications also strengthened the wings and rudder, and an additional hydraulic cylinder was added to the flaperons, as shown in the photo.
-71 was written off after a crash on 27 August 1975 when a turbine blade failure during take-off caused pilot Per Pelleberg to eject; he survived.

The Berlin Airlift film is also well worth a look, plenty of Sunderlands, Tudors and Yorks, for instance.

Fiat C.R.42bis Falco

The J11 at Linköping – courtesy of MikeJ – thanks, Mike, I never got round to taking a picture of this one while we were there!

Have you thought about Ultra and Enigma? The work done at Bletchley Park, in other words.