Boulund Posted September 8, 2010 Posted September 8, 2010 (edited) Noticed this article in technology newspaper Ny Teknik in Sweden this morning. http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/flygplan/article2467546.ece Short summary: SAAB J35 Draken for sale in California. Initial price was $499 000 USD, now lowered to $175 000 USD becase there were no interested buyers with rising fuel prices. Unlikely to find a buyer in Sweden since it is currently in US and needs new permits to fly here. It was renovated to near mint-condition 10 years ago by Verlyn Wolfe and has been flown in airshows over there: It underwent inspection in 2005 and is ready to fly. Uses about 400 liters of fuel per minute at full throttle [with afterburner I assume]. It is a mach 2.0 capable airplane and pilots needs jet- and supersonic licences to fly it. One of the picture captions states that it climbs to 10'000 meters in one minute with full afterburner. Another picture caption states it has had both 30mm cannons removed and mounting points and weapons systems removed. Edit: There was a link to the exact specifications from Wolfe Aviation http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/flygplan/article2467618.ece/BINARY/SpecifikationerJ35Draken.doc Edited September 8, 2010 by Boulund Core i5-760 @ 3.6Ghz, 4GB DDR3, Geforce GTX470, Samsung SATA HDD, Dell UH2311H 1920x1080, Saitek X52 Pro., FreeTrack homemade cap w/ LifeCam VX-1000, Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1. FreeTrack in DCS A10C (64bit): samttheeagle's headtracker.dll
mikoyan Posted September 8, 2010 Posted September 8, 2010 Noticed this article in technology newspaper Ny Teknik in Sweden this morning. http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/flygplan/article2467546.ece Short summary: SAAB J35 Draken for sale in California. Initial price was $499 000 USD, now lowered to $175 000 USD becase there were no interested buyers with rising fuel prices. Unlikely to find a buyer in Sweden since it is currently in US and needs new permits to fly here. It was renovated to near mint-condition 10 years ago by Verlyn Wolfe and has been flown in airshows over there: It underwent inspection in 2005 and is ready to fly. Uses about 400 liters of fuel per minute at full throttle [with afterburner I assume]. It is a mach 2.0 capable airplane and pilots needs jet- and supersonic licences to fly it. One of the picture captions states that it climbs to 10'000 meters in one minute with full afterburner. Another picture caption states it has had both 30mm cannons removed and mounting points and weapons systems removed. Edit: There was a link to the exact specifications from Wolfe Aviation http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/flygplan/article2467618.ece/BINARY/SpecifikationerJ35Draken.doc it is cheap to get it but not to own it:cry:
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