Best we can hope for is J35J, F-35(Pre WDNS), and the J35ÖE
Would like to see all of them, but also hoping the Finnish Draken will eventually be TT as well, along with the Rb27
I have a slight suspicion the other draken variants may be event vehicles, given Gaijin’s track record of being allergic to adding TT Drakens…
But anyways, please do keep up with the posts on this thread :) More draken content the better
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Should i translate stuff for anyone who cant read Danske? Make a nice summary of whatever i post, ill also go back and translate older stuff too.
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Quotation marks will be used for near exact word translations, some things ill be shortening as info was on a page prior.
The page is a personal memoir from a former Danish Air Force officer VAD (Shortened name) reflecting on his time in the 1980s as a pilot for the RDAF.
“VAD had something absolutely brilliant at his disposal - a Volkswagen with a radio and a red flashing light on the roof, so you could (for the most part) drive freely on the airfield. It was worth its weight in gold when you were crazy about planes and flying like I was and had even managed to get a permanent photo permit from the security officer. At first I asked for permission to use the car, but eventually it ended up with VAD asking nicely if he could have the car when he was going to fly.”
He describes his time working as a Flight Safety officer. He talks for a little bit about how they were quick to handle any aircraft to check for problems with anything as if they were to miss something it could put peoples lives at risk so anything and everything was reported to FTK or Tactical Air Command.
Caption for the bottom Image
“A Draken is coming in for landing, and then there’s the job for the FLY SIK officer. The fact that a technical error was discovered, an unexpected heavy downpour of rain, incorrect braking technique, or perhaps bad tire treads? The cause must be found so that we can learn from it.”
Went ahead an updated the main page at the top with 2 new bug reports and went ahead and marked whether they are open or accepted, if something gets implemented ill be sure to change them.
@Thomas_Belgium figured you might like this, it was a event with the Dutch and the Danes in the 1980’s iirc. Been a while since i had this image ill try to dig up some stuff.
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Gotta keep our buddies close :)
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Do you remember this?:
The 4th AIRCENT Firing Competition, an international NATO shooting competition, took place at Leeuwarden Air Base between June 26 and July 7, 1961. The participating countries were: the Netherlands with a Hawker Hunter F.Mk.6, Belgium with a Hawker Hunter F.Mk.6, Denmark with a Hawker Hunter F.Mk.4, Germany with a Sabre 6, Canada with a Sabre 6, Italy with an F-86K, and Norway with an F-86K. Pictured here is the Hawker Hunter with First Lieutenant J. Pas in the cockpit.
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I haven’t seen this, and it was some sort of training exchange that the photo I posted is from for most of the cold war Karup was the mainspot for Nato and a lot of training exercises especially with a few nations
Yeah, Belgium also went there for some time I believe.
Quite a few nations did it. The US hauled out some radar equipment and did mock battles for nations to test their skills at flying low and such. Theres a handful of images of them, more images of the 90’s training stuff but i dont think the Dutch were there for those.
One-way rotation with 306 Sqn from the Dutch Air Force at Volkel in the latter half of 1976, was written on the back of the image, had to find the other image lmao, looks like we came to the Dutch
A small snippet of a newspaper of the Dynamite 6-1 F-35 after winning the World cup against Uruguay 6-1. Without any permission two pilots painted the entire aircraft to celebrate the victory. The aircraft was so well reserved neither men we reprimanded.
This would actually lead to more incidents of the men painting things on their aircraft without permission such as the present camo i made a suggestion about.
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After World War II, Denmark had very few usable aircraft left. Although abandoned German planes were available, the British had already ordered them destroyed to prevent Soviet forces from capturing them on Bornholm. As a result, Denmark received Spitfires through British military aid between 1947 and 1949(A bit rude if i might add, we could’ve used them but oh well). These included three unarmed PR Mk. XI reconnaissance aircraft equipped with cameras and thirty-eight H.F. Mk. IXE fighters armed with cannons and machine guns, all powered by Merlin 70 engines.
The Danish Spitfires were primarily used as trainer aircraft for new fighter pilots and served mainly with 2nd Air Wing, especially squadrons 722 and 725 at Værløse. The PR Mk. XI machines were painted grey-blue, while the Mk. IXE fighters included both high-back and a few low-back versions, some capable of carrying 90-gallon long-range tanks.
Accidents were common during this period because postwar flying in Denmark had fewer restrictions and the Spitfire itself was difficult to manage on the ground. The aircraft’s tendency to tip onto its nose led to several mishaps, and eight Mk. IXE fighters were ultimately lost, with four pilots killed. By 1951–52 most Spitfires had already been retired and scrapped, though the reconnaissance variants stayed in service slightly longer before being phased out. Many of the retured Spits are actually in a few of our Musuems and i believe 2 are privately owned and are still flying.
