JAS-39 GRIPEN IN ACTION!! ✈️ FLYGFESTEN 2022

Watch the mighty JAS-39 Gripen, Sweden's most modern fighter aircraft, performing a fantastic solo flight display at Cpt. Henrik Björling's hands during Flygfesten 2022 international airshow !!
Flygfesten is one of the biggest airshows in Europe. It attracts around 50.000 attendees. Flygfesten is an eventful weekend with world class pilots and airplanes. Flygfesten has been organized every three to four years since the re-launch in 1986. It is held in Sweden by Västerdalarnas Aero club, an aeroclub located in Dala-Järna in Vansbro municipality, with about 7000 inhabitants.
Although the air show is the major focal area, Flygfesten aims to make the show more than just a regular flight display but a festival, where Saturday’s and Sunday’s air show are complemented with evening entertainment during Friday and Saturday night in the form of dance, rock, disco and fun fair.
Flygfesten is a non-profit arrangement and is held to promote the activity of the club in particular and to aviation in general. It offers a good forum for aviation enthusiasts to meet other likeminded, while it is a fine opportunity for the Club to recruit new members.
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The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration with relaxed stability design and fly-by-wire flight controls. Later aircraft are fully NATO interoperable. As of 2020, more than 271 Gripens of all models, A-F, have been built.
The Gripen is intended as a light-weight and agile aerial platform with advanced, highly adaptable avionics. It has canard control surfaces that contribute a positive lift force at all speeds, while the generous lift from the delta wing compensates for the rear stabiliser producing negative lift at high speeds, increasing induced drag. Being intentionally unstable and employing digital fly-by-wire flight controls to maintain stability removes many flight restrictions, improves manoeuvrability, and reduces drag. The Gripen also has good short take-off performance, being able to maintain a high sink rate and strengthened to withstand the stresses of short landings. A pair of air brakes are located on the sides of the rear fuselage. The canards also angle downward to act as air brakes and decrease landing distance. It is capable of flying at a 70-80 degrees angle of attack.
To enable the Gripen to have a long service life, roughly 50 years, Saab designed it to have low maintenance requirements. Major systems such as the RM12 engine and PS-05/A radar are modular to reduce operating cost and increase reliability. The Gripen was designed to be flexible, so that newly developed sensors, computers, and armaments could be integrated as technology advances. The aircraft was estimated to be roughly 67% sourced from Swedish or European suppliers and 33% from the US.
One key aspect of the Gripen programme that Saab have been keen to emphasize has been technology-transfer agreements and industrial partnerships with export customers. The Gripen is typically customized to customer requirements, enabling the routine inclusion of local suppliers in the manufacturing and support processes.
SPECS (JAS 39E)
Crew: 1
Length: 15.2 m
Wingspan: 8.6 m
Height: 4.5 m
Wing area: 30 m2
Empty weight: 8000 kg
MTOW: 16500 kg
Fuel capacity: 3400 kg internal; 3537 kg external with 3 drop tanks (2x1700L + 1x1135L)
Payload: 7200 kg
Powerplant: 1 × General Electric RM16 (F414-GE-39E) afterburning
turbofan engine, 61.83 kN thrust dry, 98 kN w/ A/B
PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed: 2460 km/h
Combat range: 1500 km
Ferry range: 4000 km
Service ceiling: 16000 m
G limits: +9, -3
Wing loading: 283 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 1.04
Take-off distance: 500 m
Landing distance: 600 m
Guns: 1 × 27 mm Mauser BK-27 revolver cannon with 120 rounds
Hardpoints: 10
Find out more about the Gripen here:
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[@enriqueelresitas9901]

Nice video as always! Love the gripen and how it looks and performs. Hope the E lives up to the Jas-39’s pedigree. Love how it’s good both in the fast speed and slow speed domains.

[@Airguardian]

Thank you!
It definitely looks mean! :D
Wish they made some more slow maneuvering on airshows though, they typically focus on the high speed stuff instead...

[@enriqueelresitas9901]

@@Airguardian for western aircraft this is their main strength. Exceeding at fast speed combat. Our doctrine is kindly based on this. Gripens are good in low speeds as well because they are meant to take on flankers in BFM and they are like kryptonite to the Superman flanker. Specifically designed to take on flankers.