Swedish Military Aircraft - Swedish Military Aircraft 1920-1929, Swedish Military Aircraft 1940-1949, Swedish Military Trainer Aircraft, SAAB 21 (Paperback)


Chapters: Swedish Military Aircraft 1920-1929, Swedish Military Aircraft 1940-1949, Swedish Military Trainer Aircraft, Saab 21, Saab 21r, Heinkel He 1, G 101. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The SAAB 21 was a Swedish fighter/attack aircraft from SAAB that first took to the air in 1943. It was described as a very efficient weapons platform. It was designed as a twin boom pusher configuration, where the propeller is mounted in the rear of the fuselage, pushing the aircraft forward. Sweden wished to ensure its continued neutrality through a policy of armed strength during World War II but were effectively denied access to foreign weapons. The original design studies began in 1939, based around the use of a "buried" Bristol Taurus engine. The project remained dormant until 1941. In response to the need for air defence, and faced with the prospect of having imported designs unable to be obtained due to the war, Sweden undertook an indigenous rearmament programme including an advanced fighter. The low-wing monoplane Saab 21 fighter ultimately designed round a license-produced version of the Daimler-Benz DB 605B engine, featured innovations such as tricycle landing gear, heavy forward-firing armament, ejector seat, and a twin-boom pusher layout that later allowed the type to be modified with a turbojet engine. The advantages of a "pushprop" are that the view forward is unobstructed and armament can be concentrated in the nose, while a major drawback is difficulty in escaping from the aircraft in an emergency, as the pilot could get drawn into the propeller blades. SAAB deliberated with a system that would jettison the engine, but eventually installed an early non-patented ejector seat developed by Bofors for the purpose and tested in 1943. In 1947, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3795553

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Chapters: Swedish Military Aircraft 1920-1929, Swedish Military Aircraft 1940-1949, Swedish Military Trainer Aircraft, Saab 21, Saab 21r, Heinkel He 1, G 101. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The SAAB 21 was a Swedish fighter/attack aircraft from SAAB that first took to the air in 1943. It was described as a very efficient weapons platform. It was designed as a twin boom pusher configuration, where the propeller is mounted in the rear of the fuselage, pushing the aircraft forward. Sweden wished to ensure its continued neutrality through a policy of armed strength during World War II but were effectively denied access to foreign weapons. The original design studies began in 1939, based around the use of a "buried" Bristol Taurus engine. The project remained dormant until 1941. In response to the need for air defence, and faced with the prospect of having imported designs unable to be obtained due to the war, Sweden undertook an indigenous rearmament programme including an advanced fighter. The low-wing monoplane Saab 21 fighter ultimately designed round a license-produced version of the Daimler-Benz DB 605B engine, featured innovations such as tricycle landing gear, heavy forward-firing armament, ejector seat, and a twin-boom pusher layout that later allowed the type to be modified with a turbojet engine. The advantages of a "pushprop" are that the view forward is unobstructed and armament can be concentrated in the nose, while a major drawback is difficulty in escaping from the aircraft in an emergency, as the pilot could get drawn into the propeller blades. SAAB deliberated with a system that would jettison the engine, but eventually installed an early non-patented ejector seat developed by Bofors for the purpose and tested in 1943. In 1947, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3795553

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September 2010

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24

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978-1-158-70964-9

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9781158709649

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