Love this plane :D

[SilentTrigger]

Can do a take off at around/less then 400 metres of runway and 500 for a landing. To compare, a F16 needs 2400+ metres to do a take off. JSF and Harrier can of course perform better but they are STOVL, Gripen is a STOL (thats actually chair in swedish hehe)

Carrier landings has been performed in simulators without using arrestor hook, never been performed in real life though.

Heres a nice video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVw49DAkbQY

[Steve]

very cool, awesome job test pilot

amazing how steep it can climb

[Lucky]

that was awesome

If you live in the U.S go see the thunderbirds or the blue angels, there awesome piolts that do stunts.. cool as hell

[SilentTrigger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3v9b...=Blue%20angles



Dont like the music thuough

[Lucky]

Ive seen them IRL, its awesome

[SilentTrigger]

Heres the Swedish Team 60
They have the same planes since 1970 though and not nice F/A-18 would be nice with 6 JAS 39C instead

They unfortently also change pilots every now and then. During the 90ies there ware no pilots at all

http://www.team60.mil.se/article.php?1&id=8194

[-Tigger-]

i think if u see any jet/heli in real life its awesome , since im in n.i theres alot of heli flyovers, but in the last few yrs thats decreased alot (maybe 2 a day) where as it used to be about 20 a day, and if i was at my grans (she lives right beside the barracks) u could see them about 50m up coming in for their landings or leaving

only place ive seen jets in real life was at belfast airport (half owned by the RAF) and at the american/canaidian border at niagara (also its a sweet place to see lots of heli's bcos of all the tours)

id love 2 c the red arrows tho

[SilentTrigger]

Red Arrows are awsome!

I live near a military airfield (well maybe not near as just around the corner but not that far). One of the "flight paths" was over our house. We had low flying JAS 39 and JA 37 every other day. They sometime came so low that the whole house would shake like in a small size earth quake. Was awsome! Also helos form the same base (F7 Såtenäs) would fly in low over our house, I love the sound of low flying helicopters, can hear how the blades cut through the air!

Also remember first time I heared automatic guns. Was a kid at around 7 years old was home alone after school when I started hearing something, stoped and listened, I just knew it was gun fire. Not sure how I knew it as it was the first time, I just did. I was later told that there had been an army exercise down town with autimatic rifles. I debeted myself at the time I heared it if some had gone to war with Sweden or not. This was around the end of the cold war. I was pretty scared, if it had been the same day as they test the air sirens I'm sure I would have dived under the bed! I tried to think that it was nothing, but it was hard! I even thought about getting my "dog tag" but I never did.