The Forever-Distinctive Mach Two Wonder
In 1949 the Swedish Air Force issued a series of requests for a high-performance, supersonic fighter that was capable of operating from the dedicated series of “runways” that were designed into the nation’s highways and formed an essential part of the Swedish national defense doctrine. Saab responded with the design for a fighter with a double delta wing, no horizontal tail, and built a reduced scale demonstrator, the Saab-210A, baptized “Lill Draken” (Small Dragon), with...
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