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Who doesn't love Draken? It's a monumental masterpiece – a feat of engineering brilliance that turned Swedish ingenuity into one of the Cold War's most distinctive fighters.

They weren't just about Volvos, ABBA, three-point seatbelts, and flat-pack furniture – Sweden could build fighters that made the Soviets nervous.

This is Part One of Draken's story, covering how a neutral country with fewer people than London ended up designing the engineering work of art.

In 1949, Sweden faced a problem: sandwiched between NATO Norway and the Soviet Union, with no allies to rely on and a recent memory of wartime supply cuts that left them nearly defenceless.

The solution was to build their own supersonic interceptor—fast enough to catch Soviet bombers, capable of operating from forest highway strips, and maintainable by eighteen-year-old conscripts in the dark.

What they created was the J35 Draken, powered by a radical double-delta wing that didn't exist anywhere else in the world.

This is the story of how engineer Erik Bratt and his team solved the impossible requirements, how they proved the concept with a half-scale prototype that nearly killed several test pilots, and how Sweden got its first production supersonic fighters operational despite engine problems, control system issues, and fatal accidents during the learning curve.

We cover the development from the 1949 requirements through the first operational variants—the engineering decisions that made the double-delta work, the prototype testing that validated the design, and the early Adams, Bertils, and Cesars that finally got Sweden's air defence into the supersonic age.

Part Two will follow with the mature Mach 2 variants, export customers, Baltic intercept operations, and a revelation about Swedish pilots that rewrites Cold War aviation history.

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CONTENTS
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:00 - Chapter 1: English Electric Canberra: Funny Looking Bird
00:00:00 - Chapter 2: English Electric Canberra: Training to Die For
00:00:00 - Chapter 3: English Electric Canberra: Setting the Records
00:00:00 - Chapter 4: English Electric Canberra: Desert Blunder (Suez)

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CREDITS
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I am deeply grateful and extend my heartfelt thanks to the following individuals who generously provided photos and videos for this project

Anthony Seeley
Andy Davy
Charles E. Mac Kay
Chris England
Derek Heley
Fergal Goodman
Garry Lakin
Graham Hutchinson
Howard J Curtis
Ian Mantel
John Bennett
Jon Wickenden
Kev Slade
Marcel Meres

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SAAB J29 Tunnan in 4K & HQ Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl4B3QodiPw

SAAB J32 Lansen in 4K & HQ Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIW0Sg5fLlE

Wonkabar007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk4GTKjRkXY

Luckyplane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTkDFUon4Kk

2015 Finland kaukava EFKA J35 DRAKEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd64quOejeM

Saab J35 Draken - Aerospace Forum Sweden 2012 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW2Vyg2RX_k

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