It's hard to believe the Draken first flew back in 1955 because even now in 2022 it's a sleek, beautiful, futuristic-looking fighter jet.

@PaddyPatrone

Жыл бұрын

True

@JuhaK71

Жыл бұрын

Damned, they were loud! With an afterburner loud as hell! Just a 18 years old boy was wandering how old plane Draken really was.

@teleman07

Жыл бұрын

Really? You must love Ho 229.

@keithallver2450

Жыл бұрын

@@teleman07 I do, actually.

@littlebritain64

Жыл бұрын

Yes, only 10 years after the II World War!!

Definitely one of the coolest Cold War Era designs.

1:26 I remember that sound from when i was a 6 year old living close to an airbase in Sweden in the 80s. Sometimes they came in for a turn, flying in pairs with slightly different enginerevs which made a very certain phasing sound in the air and it was just amazing for a young aviationentusiast. The sound of a Dragon 🎵🎶 Thanks for sharing! 😊

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AIRCRAFT.

I always loved the fighters from Sweden! Self made and high performance wonders!

One of the most advanced fighter aircraft of its time and one of the coolest looking ever! Thanks for sharing! 👍

Seeing the long tailed 35's ignite their afterburner is just something ELSE isn't it!? :)

Amazing being able to hear that jet engine switching from after burner off to after burner on... i was just waiting for the sonic boom to happen.

Damn, that's a gorgeous plane!

@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835

Жыл бұрын

It’s ugly

Swedish technology: understated and rockin'!

Got to love the small tail wheels .... Swedish practicallity :-) I saw this plane and the viggen when I was in Sweden in 1990 (IACE). Best voyage ever.

Draken was build as a high speed interceptor with a decent amount of offensive weapons. Fast gain altitude, attack the target and then return to base. As a domestic, engineering project in Sweden, I think they came up with an excellent high speed interceptor. Draken can perform the famous Cobra maneuver. Thanks for the upload!

@Death_By_Snu_Snu

9 ай бұрын

Did not Draken pilots invent the Cobra maneuver?

@JJ-xi5or

3 ай бұрын

​@Death_By_Snu_Snu yes, they did

@Amadeuslt

2 ай бұрын

@@Death_By_Snu_Snu 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@YourSweatyUncle

4 күн бұрын

@@Amadeuslt whats so funny?

Still got it after all these years, that's what you call a proper airshow display, beats all this new stuff.

The last climb on afterburner, before landing, was awesome!

In the nordic mythology, and also others, the DRAKEN (Dragon) is standing for enormous Power, Destruction and Might. This flying weapon, the SAAB 35 is showing it perfect - until today... really a Dragon ! LIKE and Thank You , PaddyPatrone !!!

Like something from a sci fi film. Not into jets but that is exceptional! 🇬🇧

one of the Loudest planes I have heard

Turning money into noise with the loud lever on 'full loud'. Wonderful. Great filming and a truly wonderful aircraft. Still so clear to see the lineage in all the Swedish fighters; Viggen, Draken, and the Gripen. All great aircraft.

Einer der schönsten und beeindruckendsten Jets für mich 😎 Ich hoffe die kommen auch zur Airpower wieder👍

@PaddyPatrone

Жыл бұрын

Draken steht auf der Teilnehmerliste

Sleek beautiful aircraft, what an amazing era it was for aircraft design.

Many thanks for all efforts God bless you

Had no idea it was that agile! Gotta love turbo jets, afterburners and the smell of their exhaust.

@JuhaK71

Жыл бұрын

Finnish AF had them too. They were LOUD!

@wernerheyckendorff729

Ай бұрын

I am pretty sure what we saw here is nowhere near it's limits. As far as I can find it was capable of a sustainde 9G in turns.

If they rolled that out of a hangar for the first time this year it would frighten the fighter community! It still has the coolest look of almost any fighter ever designed (IMHO). Almost spacecraft-like.

LOVE the video btw!

In my best Crocodile Dundee accent, "Naw mate, THESE are Leading Edge Extensions!"

Just brilliant

Majestic Warbird!

SAAB is just amazing!

@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835

Жыл бұрын

Ya . Amazing junk

@Ailasor

Жыл бұрын

@@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835 beats whatever shit your country makes by a long shot..

It just looks better with time!

Goddamn, it's so aggressively stunning!

Nice looking aircraft.

Nice vids Paddy.

Awesome 👌

Un avión adelantado a su tiempo....very beautiful 😎

Um dos mais belos caças já construídos, monomotor mais de 2 X velocidade do som.

Seing those scramble usually meant broken windows on my grandparents farm. Impressive to say the least. They look alien even compared to modern fighters.

I am biased since I'm a swede, but she is so beautiful.

@bobthebomb1596

Жыл бұрын

I am British, but she has always been in my top two aircraft.

@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835

Жыл бұрын

It’s ugly

Magnificent. Should still be in production, with modernized electronics.

@davebowman6497

3 ай бұрын

Of-course! But we need a modern engine. The RM6 / Rolls Royce Avon is no longer in production, and a modern engine will have a much better fuel economy. As you said, we need to replace all electronics, including avionics, handling of contemporary weapons, a completely new radar of modern standard, new defensive countermeasures, highly integrated communications and information sharing with other units of the Swedish (and now NATO) armed forces. Next we should modify it to be able to perform all mission types previously done by separate aircraft models: Interception (Swedish "Jakt", attack ("Attack") and surveillance ("Spaning"). Finally (?) we would like to modify it to be extremely maneuverable, maybe even make it an instable plane using computer controlled canard wings to keep it in a stable state. With all that we might as well give it a new name. Since Swedish airforce planes have had their names prefixed with letter(s) denoting its role/mission , and since this modified J35 now can do three mission types I would suggest "JAS". 😊

havent watched it yet does it do the thing

Straight from the last episode of Star Wars...

Swedens coolest looking jet fighter.

ฉันว่าเครื่องบินสวีเดนเหมาะสมค่าใช้จ่ายต่อชั่วโมงบินมันต่ำก็หมายความว่านักบินมีโอกาสที่จะมีชั่วโมงบินเพิ่มขึ้นอีก 1 เท่าตัวเป็นอย่างน้อยเขาจะมีขีดความสามารถที่สูงขึ้นเมื่อเขาขับเครื่องบิน 2 เครื่องยนต์รุ่นใหญ่ในอนาคต

A 69 year old beauty...!!

Hot Dogging, I love it.

It was more modern than everything the US and the Soviets put out in the 50s !!

How do you know what an Ä sounds like? ;)

درود بر شرف سازدش

Full burner the whole time to keep that Delta wing turning.

👍 Endlich mal eine Draken im richtigen Farbschema. Sorry Ösis. 😀

Does the Swedish AF operate and maintain this? How many? 😎

@dash9655

Жыл бұрын

Its a muesum piece. Even the aircraft which came after it is retired.

@grumpynovelist

7 ай бұрын

The Swedish Air Force Historic Flight maintains and operates a number of vintage Saab aircraft: One J29, one J32, one J35, one SK35 (two-seater Draken), and two Saab 37 (one AJ37 and one SK37). They're frequently seen at airshows around Europe. Pretty soon, I'm guessing they'll add Saab 105 to the line-up, it's in the process of being retired from service (mid-2024).

Was this at danish Air show?:)

@PaddyPatrone

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Danish Airshow 2022

@biopower5160

Жыл бұрын

@@PaddyPatrone Nice! I remeber the speed pass where he turned off the afterburners and I heard the danish voice :))

And the swedish pilots invented the Cobra maneuver in that plane........many 5th or 6th generation figther are having problems doing that, Draken was like made for it

Sweden makes beautiful women and airplanes

mig21と初飛行同じ

A good design is a good design! The only American plane of that era that has a striking is the F-104.

Godhet nådig. 🤓 What an intimidating aircraft for 1955. The Draken must’ve given the Soviets pause if they had any thought of invading Sweden.

@zymelin21

26 күн бұрын

way back in 1962 I was at the signal corps NCO school. We cadets were pressganged into being monitors, seat allocators etc. for some airshow. I happedned to be standing next to the russian Air attache (easy to see who he was with a chest full of medals etc), two Drakens flew by right side up, and with like the flick of a switch they flew upside down. the attache saw it too, and lost his jaw. an improvement on the "Immelmann turn"

Gorgeous. But in English, the word "Danish" has no umlaut. ;)

What a shame that their was such heavy cloud cover

@PaddyPatrone

4 күн бұрын

@@lightningmcqueen181 I have filmed several Draken Displays over the years. Check my channel.

@lightningmcqueen181

4 күн бұрын

@@PaddyPatrone 👍 Saab makes some Lethal Arial Hotrod's !

🚀🚀🫣🚀🚀

Il fallait au moins un réacteur Américain pour faire voler ce camion...

This beauty could more than shame new aircraft and to me it looks better aswell

@PaddyPatrone

Жыл бұрын

First aircraft to perform the cobra maneuver

Whats so spectacular about it really?? its turnrate is slow as a snail, same with the rest, it does a few slow turns, thats it, boring as heck.

@ikmalshahrinbedokviewss3630

Жыл бұрын

clearly you have no idea what the draken is capable of, also this thing was made in the 1950s, so pushing its airframe is just asking for trouble

@PaddyPatrone

Жыл бұрын

The Saab 35 was the first aircraft to fly the Cobra maneuver. They don`t show that on airshows...

@m-h1217

9 ай бұрын

Slow as a snail yet the first aircraft to do one of the most aggressive maneuvers in history?