Saab Draken

A rare Saab Draken at the Reno Air Races in 2003. Unfortunately the aircraft spent most of this flight away from the airport on a photo run. This video does include a nice engine start and finishes with a chute landing.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Saab
• J35
• Draken
• Jet
• Fighter
• Reno
• Air
• Races
• Skip
• Holm

[ph11p3540]

I thought this jet was a STOL capable aircraft in event that the airbase runways were bombed out. It sure looked like the jet took 3000 ft of runway.

[paralleler]

Yeah..., I'm sure the Draken wasn't a STOL either.

Googling "SAAB STOL" did return Saab's Gripen (a.k.a., Griffin, Gryphon) including link to a YouTube video of it landing on a straight section of highway.

It also returned the Viggen that apparently had the same capability.

[paralleler]

The plane does have "Saab Of Sacramento" on its wing and the aircraft registration number is currently coming back to Sacramento, California, USA.

[aboajaka]

@antenov Actually the Draken were used in the Swedish Bas 60 and Bas 90 systems withs its small airfields. Every airfield has a few highway strips in the vicinity each 1200 meters. These highway strips were not used often by any aircraft but the draken could and did use them. Take off with afterburner is 670m and landing is 600m with chute. On the video its doing a airodynamical landing without using breaks. Sorry for my bad English.

[shashair]

The Saab Draken was able to land in very short airfields. In this video, tail chute was not deployed immediately after the touchdown. In fact, Drakens deployed their tail chutes even before they touched down..while still being airborne!!!

[couchfighter]

It has a huge wing surface and if flown hard can climb out real nice.....but not a traditional stol

[MrJFLYER]

i think this plane is for sale 400,000 us

[antenov]

@ph11p3540 no the draken is not a stol aircraft the the viggen whas maby that plane you are searching for ajs 37 viggen a=attack j=jakt/hunting and the last is s=spaning/recon i think that viggen whas the best swedish have ever made i live in sweden and i love those planes from draken to jas 39 gripen but my favo is viggen

[Altair8801]

Great video! But what in the world does Apple and the Apple logo have to do with it?

[swertinge07]

@spayum2 Mountains?

[MastaMag]

@ph11p3540

The Draken needs 650 meter to start. ~ 2200ft

[XF540]

I know Skip Holm personally, he's an incredible pilot and can handle a jet like it's really wings trapped to his back.

I also know this Draken, it's currently for sale at nearly 50% off. Quite a jet for $175K, but there's four of them on the field where I'm at that are in need od restoration. One two seater, three single seaters and all are reconaissance models. I can also see Skip used the "fire plug" unit to start the engine, there's $300 right there in four seconds! I love jets!!!