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The Saab 29 Tunnan (ton, barrel) is a Swedish jet-powered military aircraft of the company Saab from the direct post-war period. The designation Tunnan leads itself from the compact and somewhat bulgy appearance of the airplane starting from at flying ton and/or barrel reminded. It was the first combat aircraft of this kind manufactured after the Second World War in series in Western Europe. The first flight was on 1 September 1948.

History

The development of the Saab 29 began, after the German aerodynamic realizations to the delta wing after the end of the Second World War in May 1945 became after Germany generally admits still in the last phase of the war the Messerschmitt ME 262 as fighter to the employment had brought. However Sweden procured itself appropriate being subject in addition on not completely official way over Switzerland and could with some temporal projection/lead as the first country of Western Europe after 1945 an appropriate airplane design in such a way.

This concerns, a single-seat combat aircraft propelled manufactured completely made of metal by a jet engine. The midwing monoplane has a retractable chassis and delta wing. It was the first combat aircraft of this kind in Western Europe and resembled in the interpretation of the German Messerschmitt P.1101, the Soviet MiG-15 or US-American F-86. The designation Tunnan is derived from the compact appearance of the fighter, which is to due again to De Havilland Ghost engine equipped with a radial compressor.

In order to arrange the low-speed characteristics controllable, automatic slats were attached at the wing. The landing flaps were enough over the entire wing length. The elevator got along without stabilizer and was as a whole mobile. For the security of the pilot an ejection seat developed with Saab was inserted. The project manager with Saab was Lars Brising. The first flight of the machine took place on 1 September 1948. Four prototypes were manufactured.

The employment designation read J29 for the hunt variants (J = Jakt) and S29 for the clearing-up variant (S = Spaning).

To 10. May 1951 the first Serienmaschinen were delivered to the Swedish Air Force. The relay F 13 in received the first samples.

In the years 1954/1955 the Saab 29 attained the attention of the world, as it it succeeded 2 world records to set up, once 500 km with 977 km/h and 1000 km with 900,6 km/h.

During the UN-employment in the Congo nine Saab J29B and two S29C were made available.

Only export was the supply of 30 used Saab 29F to Austria in the years 1960-1962 in two lots to 15 machines each, which remained there until 1973 in the employment.

In Sweden the machines were replaced starting from already 1960 by the substantially more modern Saab 35 Draken.

Altogether beside the prototypes, 224 Saab J29A, 360 Saab J29B (by those some to J29E and J29F were later modified) as well as 76 S29C manufactured.

Today existed, beside various machines in museums, still another airworthy copy, which in the possession of the Swedish aviation museum is, but of the F10 Friends Society in is cared for.