The Colonel out there ruining it for everyone… now I’ll never get my chance to on-sight fly an Apache… ![]()
Pushed for power apparently.
Does this mean that the Army can now go out and total a USAF F-35?
I’m guessing that would be a hard NO! ![]()
I miss them so much
the howl of olympus ![]()
PHWOAR!
Yes, from that angle it 100% does, but from any other angle Draken looks far cooler than the Viper ![]()
Cockpit tour at around 20:00… despite being mechanical instruments rather than touchscreens, the cockpit looks surprisingly modern!
how did you get a picture of @troll living room ![]()
I have always loved the lines/look of the Draken. Maybe just the camera angle but it looks a lot smaller than I imagined?
The front end is tiny - we’re used to jets with huge radar dishes in the nose - and the jet seems sleek, but where the wing blends with the fuselage it’s actually quite thick so I imagine the jet has a reasonable fuel capacity?
You rarely see a Draken without its two bellytanks ![]()
In other words it drinks fuel like a Viking in a mead hall ![]()
True! It was a doomsday interceptor, designed to reach the bombers as far out as possible and launch the missiles. RTB wasn’t a priority.
Going Mach2 with hair (and beard) on fire, straight to Valhalla.
Nordic Mythology Ghostrider. Hell yeah.
Did they ever figure out who that guy (or girl?) was?
Their videos were epic… totally insane, but epic.
Ahhh, I was thinking of this guy:

