Vengeance surpasses Death

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Brief History

In alternative universe

1963.

On Paris Air Show pretty much attention was dragged to english P.1127 (Harrier prototype), an aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing, and, even thought it crashed on display, many were impressed by its possibilities...

Many countries military forces started to form engineer teams in order to research possible advantages (or disadvantages) of VTOL concept. Flygvapnet (Swedish Air Force) was no exception.

At autumn of 1966 sweden engineers created a concept that relied on a combination of lift jet and deflection panels which will redirect thrust from main engine to secondary nozzles for vertical thrust.This concept was implemented on Saab J35D.

2 Test flights at winter of 1967 were performed. First flight tested plane behaviour during conventional flight and was successful. The second was oriented on vertical mode and had shown troubles with thrust balance resulting in non-fatal crash on attempt to land vertically.

Additional electronics were installed to differentiate thrust between secondary nozzles and lift jet easier, providing full control in roll and pitch axis.

Test flight at winter 1969 was successful and Flygvapnet received first aircrafts on may 1969

19 machines produced, 10 of which served Kingdom of Sweden up to 1972, 9 sold to Finland

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Controls

Standart Flight controls...
Throttle > 95% - Afterburner
Brake - Brake
TRIM - TRIM
AG1 - Horizontal/Vertical mode change
AG2 - Airbrakes
AG5 - Drogue chute
AG6 - Nav lights
AG3 - Drop missiles
AG3 - Activate smoke trails( magnets + 3 cannons)

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Takeoff and Landing:

• In Conventional Flight
  Takeoff
  1) Full Throttle
  2) Pull Up on 310 km/h approx
  3) Sudden Death
  4) Profit
  Landing
  1) Cut Throttle
  2) Slow down to 400 - 360 km/h
  3) ...
  4) Touchdown at 240 km/h approx
  5) Eat dirt
• In S/VTOL mode
  Takeoff
  1) Tap 1
  2) Full Throttle
  4) Gain at least 80 meters above ground
  3) Pitch down for acceleration
  4) Accelerate to 230 - 270 km/h
  5) Untap 1
  6) Fly to Valhalla on your own
  Landing
  1) Cut Throttle
  2) Slow down to 400 km/h
  3) Change to Vertical mode
  4) Maintain 45-75 degrees Roll and pull up a little
  5) Raise Throttle to 70% on speed less than 160 km/h
  6) Level on the horizon
  7) Touchdown
  

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Additional notes

• Top speed:
  1000 m ~ 1470 Km/h
  10 000 m ~ 1740 Km/h
• Stall speed : 210 km/h approx
• Cruise speed : ~ 870 km/h
• Careful on negative G
• ~ 80% Throttle to hover
• Prefer to use Trim instead of Pitch on high speed
• Guns have simulated spacing (tracer-solid-tracer-incendiary)
• Missiles better used on 3km and less distances. Cant be launched on G greater than 8
• Flight-assist system limits Angle of Attack, means no kort-parad
• Counter nose-down tendency in relaxed flight using trim
• Be professional. Let the others make mortality statistics
  

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Cockpit instruments

Where
1. Angle of Attack
2. G force
3. Vertical mode indicator
4. IAS
5. Radarscope(not working)
6. TAS
7. Altimeter
8. Angle of Slip
9. Compass (always pointed North)
10. Artificial Horizon
11. Fuel indicator
12. EGT (nonsense)

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Now to the least succ part of description... maybe...

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Hurbok#

And Happy hunting

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Hmmm, if we maintain high AoA in vertical flight does it counts as cobra???

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Hefna=vengeance
Odöda=undead
yeah, those are not curse words

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Low part count variant coming right up (753)

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Addendum : Radarscope background ( third number in material line) somehow changed after placing ze plon as a subassembly on a specific cockpit for auto-credit. Change it from -3 to 8 in overload if you want proper immersion