| Title: | All about Scandinavia |
| Moderator: | TLE::SAVAGE |
| Created: | Wed Dec 11 1985 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 603 |
| Total number of notes: | 4325 |
Hello! This is one of the times when I'm glad that most of the people in the world don't understand Swedish. The thing that happened was bad enough. On the news yesterday I saw a short sequence from Link�ping about JAS and the accident there. The background sound to that sequence was a male person screaming "j�..ar, j�..ar ...". For all of you that watched the news and don't speak Swedish, the only thing I'm going to say is that you don't need the words he said in your vocabulary. What happened and what are the reactions in Sweden. Are they going to stop the project? What is the cost of stopping the project? By the way, is there any way to extract news from TT or access some newsservice in Sweden through VTX? The cost of having Dagens Nyheter delivered in a reasonable time in CA was more than I wanted to pay (>$40/week). / Ulf
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| 319.1 | Has a Grippen crashed? | ERFARE::PERRETT | Sun Feb 05 1989 18:33 | 14 | |
From the previous note I gather that one of the JAS (Grippen)
prototypes has crashed, is that correct.
Why should that endanger the project, look at the number of Tornadoes
that piled in before they were fixed. Why should one crash endanger
the whole project, as the impression I got was that Sweden was about
to do again what they did with the Viggen; ie build an amazing
aeroplane to rival the best in the world. Having got this far it
would be a shame to kill it now, especially as the Viggen will need
replacing with somthing in a few years anyway.
If there is any more info on this then please keep it comeing.
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| 319.2 | PEKKA::PEURA | Pekka Peura, CSG-Helsinki | Mon Feb 06 1989 17:06 | 22 | |
re: .1
yes it was the only (flying) prototype of JAS Grippen that
crashed. The pilot had luck, he survived. The crash hapenned
during landing. The info i have is that it was a problem in
the computerized steering system. Modern jets are far too
unstable to fly by hand if the computer system fails.
At least in Finland there has been a lot of speculation of
the cancellation of the whole project. (JAS was proposed
to be the follow up for DRAKEN's in Finland too) Allthough
the official word from Sweden is that the project will continue
and the Finnish Air Force said that the accident doesn't in
any way affect our intensions of bying JAS.
But there has been strong evidence lately that building a
modern fighter yet is too expensive for a small country
(.i.e. example from Israel)
Pekka
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