Your favorite Saab jet fighter

[SaabKen]

Draken, Viggen, Gripen or one of the older classics (Tunnan, Lansen)


My ATF (all time fave) is the Viggen. How could you not love it when it can do things like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fye_2...eature=related

So SAAB

[nordwulf]

I can't say much about each individual Saab fighter because I don't know much about them. I always did find it very cool they can close off certain public roads and use them as a landing strip making some kind of temporary airport.

[Shazam]

I'd have to say the Tunnan is my first... it's just such an awkward looking thing in the air... sort of like a pregnant fish.

[SaabKen]

The F-104 Starfighter is an example of a good looking fighter with a known problem. There have been jokes that the plane was "banking with the intent to turn" because the fighter was fast but not very maneuverable.

As far as good looks, the Viggen is among my favorite along with the SEPECAT Jaguar, Panavia Tornado, and McDonnell F-4Phantom.

F-104 ...... can't expect much maneuverability from something whose design looks like my kid made from a toilet paper roll and some stock paper



I've always liked the Dassault Mirage variants (but not the F1) and its Israeli twin, the KFIR: