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SAAB AJS 37 (digitaltmuseum.se)

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I love Digitalt Museum, it is a collaboration of museums and local history societies in Sweden and Norway, there are a huge number of things to see, most of which are in the public domain or licensed through creative commons.

Here is an amazing photo of a SAAB AJS 37 Viggen fighter aircraft, taken by Ulf Nylöf / Flygvapenmuseum

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a neat shot, and thanks for posting! Helps make it feel like a community instead of just me posting.

I wonder how much work is involved in getting a picture like that. I assume you can't just take a polaroid camera with and point it out of a cockpit. Probably requires at least a specialty mount for professional gear or something.

Also, I didn't realize that Saab the car company was a side project of Saab, the defense company, interesting Wikipedia rabbithole to fall down

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

It would be very interesting to learn how the photo was taken, I have seen pictures from when the US Air Force are doing photo operations like this, and in that case they had the photographer on the edge of the open ramp of a transport plane taking photos out the back of the plane.

But in most cases the simplest explanation is probably accurate, there were two seater variants of Viggen, you stick a guy in the front of one of those, and a pilot in the back, prepare a camera with a good lens and the right exposure settings, give it to the guy, have the camera plane fly at a 45 degree bank angle and have the subject plane come up from below, and take a lot of photos to compensate for bad luck.

SAAB is an acronym, meaning Svenska Aeroplan AktieBolaget, or freely translated:

The Swedish Airplane Company.

And as you probably have seen by now they have built several really cool planes, from the fat SAAB 29 Flying Barrel to the gorgeous SAAB 35 Draken, the brutal SAAB 37 Viggen, and the nimble SAAB 39 Gripen.

There is a small display team maintaining a fleet of flying SAAB planes for display purposes, they fly the following aircraft from SAAB:

SAAB 29 Flygande Tunnan
SAAB 32 Lansen
SAAB 35 Draken
SAAB 37 Viggen
SAAB 105 Sk60

They often guest at European airshows during the summer.