Underbelly by cfulton
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The SAAF Gripen coming in to land, over my post on the roof! Sadly I missed the rest of his show, so not any better pics.
Thanks for viewing and comments,
Clive
Comments (19)
VRG
WOW! Thanks, Clive, you just made my day! The Gripen really is a little beauty and I wonder if anybody else in Africa has them?
klauskk
WOW !! amazing and surprising capture...!!! Very well done !! Mauro
PD154
Perfect Clive, not an easy subject Well done!
fredster66
Always an amazing sight and you captured it very well.
kgb224
Excellent capture Clive.
GBCalls
Great timing! Excellent capture
neiwil
Great capture, not often you get this angle close up.
pauljs75
Haha! Cool pic. I notice they copied the little painting trick the Canadian air force came up with back in the 1980s on their F-18s. (At least I think they're the first ones to try it.) But yeah, neat detail shot!
thecytron
Great shot!
RobyHermida
Wow, Excellent image!! ROBY
dbrv6
Excellent timing on getting this.
Mordrain
SAAB JAS 39 Gripen (Griffon). JAS stands for Jakt-Attack-Spaning (Pursuit-Attack-Recon), and is as the name suggests a multitask warplane. Designed and manufactured in Sweden by SAAB, manufacturer of warplanes since the 1940's. While most of the worlds newest warplane designs went towards bigger, stronger and two engined SAAB decided to go the opposite way, making the Gripen small and one engined. In a war Swedens airports wouldnt have survived for long, therefore the swedish Airforce are trained to use strips of swedens roadnet to land, rearm & refuel, and take off again. This fact plus the fact Sweden was Neutral and its Airforce only ment to act in a defensive capacity a smaller, lighter plane was more feasible. Now with the Soviet Union gone and the Cold War over SAAB have taken forth a newer version of the Gripen with longer range and better offensive & defensive capabilites. In the ex-Cold War era where Military strenght isnt needed as much and where economy is the main thing a smaller, lighter plane is cheaper both in procurement and maintanence and some countries in the world have showed an interest in the JAS 39 Gripen.
G_Mansco
Splendid capture, really difficult ;O)
wingnut55
dramatic shot ! i have seen Gripen pics before, but had not realised how sharp and pointy it looks.
debbielove
Great shot. Well caught - not an easy subject. Harriers do much the same thing as Sweden's Air Force. They fly from unprepared forest strips and roads hidden in the countryside and indeed train in Norway for this. Mostly, they flew Ground attack in Afganistan etc though.... Brilliant shot, Rob
awjay
superb
lorandbartho
Very elegant!
junge1
Great capture Clive!
bmac62
Very advanced wing arrangement. Well shot...straight up it appears. Bill