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Well can i get permission to get blueprints?

You had lots to see but you walked right by the underwing damage on the right side of that 117.

Its absolutely stunning, gorgeous jet! Looks better than modern aircrafts

As a kid, I liked to take long walks in the Swedish country side. One day a J-35 passes me very low. I'll never forget it, it was like my own little private air show.

I've been to this museum about 10 yrs ago. It is absolutely awesome if you love military aviation. We were working on the railway right past the museum on Hill AFB.

The Jumo 004's had short operational lives, at least for the 004B variants made for production, seeing even a single pair able to operate is amazing.

4:20 This jet is as much a copy of the F-15 as the F-15 is a copy of the MiG-25, lol.

It belongs in a museum, not decaying by a road..

I absolutely love the editing, good job

watching from Great Britain abs fanatstic footage,i used to watch F-111E's like the one in your video flying out of Raf Upper Heyford with the 20th TFW 494fs back in the late 80's & SR-71 flight op's from Raf Mildenhall,great to see there nicely restored & on display,there is a ex 20th FW F-111E on display at the Imperial war museum Duxford England with similar squadron markings its the ex mount of the Wing Commander of the 20-TFW which flew operations in Desert Storm

Its a danish Draken, and the Draken btw invented what was later called teh Pugachev's cobra maneuver....

There is also a J32 Lansen in the Mojave Desert too!

Sweden, the small country in the north, had a totally intact industry after WWII - the results of this were (amongst other things) the ”Flying Barrel" and later the Kite fighter jets. Still think the Kite looks amazing.

Even today the design doesn't look outdated.

00:55 No, there was no de-icing boot there. The plastic is just replaceable wear-protection for the fibre-glass. The air intake openings where fibre-glass because they housed radio antennas.

I wonder what performance you could get from an old jet like the Draken if it was upgraded with a modern engine. I mean it still looks like a modern plane to me.

Growing up close to a military airfield in the 80's I saw these from time to time, it was mostly 37 Viggen by then, but 35 and even 32 Lansen visited the skies above on occasions. ✈️ Thanks for the video! 👍

P51-D Mustang, my favorite fighter plane of WWII. Like a flying sportscar!

My favorite plane, no other jet has ever quite looked like the SAAB Draken. I'm not totally convinced you saw one do touch and goes in the US? The only 2 that fly are in Sweden. They fly for the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight, a charity that restores ex SwAF jets to flight for airshows around Europe.

I saw one flying at an airshow. Brilliant. Years ahead of it's time. Check out the XL-16 That NASA has. Just to prove a point.

Wow, TH-cam replaced the music for the last section. Thats some choice they made. Not sure if it fits. Looks like I will be remaking this video

1:48 what is the gridded box opening? (and other openings, look like some auxiliary air intakes?)

It was a good video. I enjoyed it. I saw the X-15 at McMinnville before they hung it. It looks better in the air. It was also the first model I built. I think the second one was a rat fink. LOL, I think every young model builder back then had a rat fink. Anyway, once again, it's a good, informed video. The USAF mesuem is on the bucket list, maybe this year. CAVU

A few comments from a Dane ;-) 1:09 The sticker is from the workshop who maintained them - KAR stands for Karup ( Denmark) Main base for F-35 Drakens in Denmark, FVK simply says ''flight workshop kommand''. 1:20 The little censor is a distance radar measurer for the gunsight, and the camera is not a targeting camera, but a real recce camera. There was mor than one camera. This jet is actually a RF-35. No targeting radar as the F-35 had. 3:09 The 35XD is the special Danish version with the bigger engine, and A/G cabebilleties, and upgraded INS nav system. 3:23 They did not have a problem with tailstrake, because it was designed from the beginning with the tailwheels. That's why you could tell on the radio whenever there was a Draken in the padern '' Viking 35, final - four greens'' . The idea to the jet came up during ww2 - loooong before Chock Y passed the M1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_35_Draken

It is not a copy of any US fighters….different wing,airfoil, mechanization. It was designed for ice strips,grass strip ops…smaller than the F15 and a different role: short range point defense single seat fighter, later made a naval version…

The Draken originally had a short tail but it was lengthened to improve aerodynamics that is why the wheel was needed, if you look at a Swedish SK35C trainer it lacks a tail wheel as they are rebuilt short tailed J35A drakens.

Will somebody buy that F-16 a pitot tube cover.

With it's good P/W ratio, and low wing loading, the Draken was specifically studied by John Boyd's LWF Mafia, who went on the design the superlative YF-16.

Fun fact, its believed to be the first serial produced aircraft that could supercruise, at least the first models could, later they became to heavy with all electronics, digital vectoring to target from ground also was a "first off".

The Soviet's did not copy the BMW 801. Their ASh-82 was their own design, with aspects from the Wright R-1820 which they had licence agreements with the US to build (Shvetsov M-25)... While the Germans had license agreements with the US to build Pratt & Whitney Hornets (BMW 132)... 😄

My God, that's so cool, I would walk out with almost everything,,,

This specific aircraft is an SK-35XD type, XD stands for Export Denmark SK designates it as a two seat trainer. Serial number 1151 was delivered 14:th of October 1971 Incidentally the J35 Draken was the first aircraft that performed a maneuver that much later would become famous as the Cobra

Early 1990’s we’d see several of these at Inyokern-Ridgecrest municipal airport just up the road. Never saw them in the air, believe the aircraft were being assembled and fitted out.

my father has been with LM for over 40 years. I also served as a Airframer on the F35B including the first ever us combat deployment. Love LM and alot of my friends are with LM. know a few that made it into Skunk works.

Really cool place, full of history and the most amazing aircraft ever! Congratulations to Skunk Works ❤ I've been there twice but didn't know that there was a gift shop there, must return a third time 😂 Do you have any idea about their opening hours? Thanks for the great video

beautiful aircraft 👌

Cool walkaround, fun to see one of the NTPS Drakens. Some random facts: - Saab-Scania was Saabs parent company up until the 1990s, it was a merger between Saab (aircraft, cars) and Scania (trucks). The companies then split again. The cars had the full name on the hood badge for many years. The Saab griffin logo is still used by both companies today. - The Draken was optimized for interception, the double delta wing shape was very good for climb, speed and short takeoffs/landing. - The small tail landing gear was added from the J35 B model and onwards, when Draken got a bigger afterburner. - The Draken was capable of supercruise. - Swedish models carried an early digital modem, for receiving data showing altitude, range and direction of a target, sent from a ground station. It could also send non-voice commands for the pilot. - The aircraft can be taken apart at the middle for easier transport. - The final version was the J35J model, which came after the J35F. The reason why they jumped from "F" to "J" is that by this time the Draken would only serve at one airforce wing, F10 in Ängelholm - and J is the 10th letter of the alphabet. F10 has since been shut down, but the facilities is now home to Koenigsegg, a sports car manufacturer.

Reconnaissance version RF35. Cameras in the nose.

Very cool looking jet! Well done Sweden

This is a Norwegian-registered NATO variant of the SAAB-35 DRAKEN, you can see it on the wingtips and the pilot on the fin.

From Wikipedia: Saab 35XD (Xerxes David) was an export fighter bomber version of the Saab 35F for the Royal Danish Air Force. X stands for export and D for Denmark. It competed and won against the Mirage III and the Northrop F-5 in 1968.

I am at AT-151's former airbase in Karup Denmark where theres a Draken as gateguard too :-)

Hi from a Finnish Draken pilot. Nice walkaround! Those stripes along the front leading edge were actually guides (reflecting) for night flying purposes. Those double tail wheels vere for the use of aerodynamic braking (stic way back) before the wheel brakes vere allowed to be used. Realy a great fighter designed by the Saab! Cheers.

Got to see one of these maneuvering out in the desert near Mojave. They were already supposed to be retired, so it was like seeing Bigfoot flying. I had to take a double take hahaha

KARFVK is "Flyvestation Karup Flyværksted" (Air Base Karup Aircraft Maintenance Shop translated from danish)

At some point in time Saab and Scania merged. Later, they split. Scania today is a very successful truck manufacturer (in the top 10 in the world).

I got a backseat trip from Karup Denmark KAR til Gardermoen Norway and back, it was back in 1984. I also worked with the Draken simulator. A very robust plane that could take an insane amount of beating and stil get you back.

great video. the casual walkaround is a nice way of introducing the plane :) better, in many ways, to merely having short stock footage clips playing after one another, without the greatest cohesion between one another. nice work

One of my favorite fighters, and I had no idea of their use in the U.S. So cool-looking. Thanks for posting. COME ON BABY, GIVE US THAT DRAGON BREATH!

It's an excellent museum right down the road from me. I've been there three times and must return because there is no limit to getting close to airplanes. LOL. As per your Schunk Works video, it could be the gift shop. CAVU