Vintage Aviation Museum is planning the relocation of a Saab Draken fighter from California to Utah and is seeking public support to fund the complex and costly move.
Saab as an automaker is sadly no longer with us. Thanks a lot for that, GM. You bunch of accountants and pencil pushers you. But let's be honest, Saab's bread and butter have always been airplanes.
The Saab 35 Draken, also known as ‘The Kite’ or ‘The Dragon,’ was the first Western European-built combat aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier. Actually, the Draken busted through Mach 2.
One of the most aesthetically pleasing and most recognizable aircraft to the Cold War era, the Saab Draken was the double-delta dragon nobody dared attempt to slay, defending the Scandinavian skies ...
World War Two ended amid great anticipation about the future of technology. In their race to win the war, both the Allies and Axis developed, tested, and fielded increasingly more advanced weapons, ...