The Aircraft Design that Took the World by Storm
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Published 2023-05-28
Although the jungle terrain of the African country differed significantly from the cold, misty mountains of Scandinavia, the Tunnan had no trouble executing United Nations missions over the war-torn Congolese skies.
As they descended to a lower altitude, the squadron of Swedish Tunnans approached their target and unleashed their AIM-9B Sidewinder missiles upon the enemy.
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All Comments (21)
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The Swedish military aerospace industry has always had the advantage of not being undermined by either the British or Canadian parliaments.
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I saw one of them fly in Linköping yesterday. 32 Lansen, 35 Draken, 37 Viggen, and 39 Gripen as well. They put up a good show!
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At least one of the Tunnan from Congo was returned to Sweden ... and is in a storage at the Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping (Air Force Museum), the home town of SAAB ... It is put on kind of a display mode in the storage, so sometimes special visitors can have access to it. Unfortunately for the museum the bullet holes on the aircraft was patched ...
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fun fact: austrian airforce used them in the 1960s, some former luftwaffe me262-pilots from austria flew them. when they were made obsolete, one saab was placed in front of the barracks nearby where i grew up. as kids we played there and even sat in the cockpit, as it was not locked. it is now in a private museum
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These Saab flying Barrels set world records. The British supplied hundreds of railway wagons of scientific and technical drawings, along with jet and rocket planes, engineers and pilots. One flew their top helicopter all the way to the south coast of Britten.
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Fun fact about the 20mm kanon is still in service of swedish military today. First on that PV302 and now days on the patria 6x6
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Here in Austria there was an old J29 set on a children's playground. As a kid is was amazing for me to sit in this plane.
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As a kid, my father went on a schooltrip to a mountain, in the valley below a couple of J29:s came flying and blew up an old bridge with rockets! Pretty cool!
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`Tunnan` is pronounced with a short `u`, not a long one. Emphasis is on the double N´s. However the J 29 was partially known as the widowmaker, due to the large number of crashes during low level flight manoeuvres. Low level flying has long been a hallmark of the Swedish Air force. A classmate of mine had lost his father in one such an accident with the J 29.
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THAT PLAN "THE BARREL" ONE OF TWO BEST SWEDISHPLANE IN MY OPINION .." AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL ..
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The reason I love this jet is that it is a very cute looking plane.
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[1:35] "Storm Bird" (or Sturmvogel in German) was actually the name for the ME-262 Figher Bomber variant. The original Fighter version was "Swallow" (Schwalbe in German).
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In the 50's on average 21 pilots died each year during risky and harsh training regimes. An insane death rate compared to other nations. My grandfather worked as a mechanic on the J29 and each year someone he knew died.
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LOVE your presentations! Always packed with great info. 🙂
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My grandfather was a mechanic on this plane when he did his military service.
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Not convinced they used AIM-9Bs in the Congo. The aircraft were chiefly targeting ground targets using unguided missiles. The AIM-9 Sidewinder series is an air to air missile.
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Excellent video. All important facts presented in a short video.
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Great video. I'm happy I wear headphones as I can enjoy the awesome sound too 👌
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Did know a old tunnan pilot, he did love the plane.
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Sweden has always been a very impressive country in everything they do❤️🇸🇪
