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Old 24th May 2016, 17:10
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pax britanica
 
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Lived in Sweden for a while in early 90s , office as close to a mixed use airfield north of Stockholm called Barkaby , some light a/c but also an alert base for fighters complete with camouflaged hollow rock hard shelters.
occasionally got a Viggen deployment there -lots and lots of noise and some spectacular short landings .

it did a neat trick at airshows where it would do the short landing bit keep reverse on to back track a few hundred yards and then rocket off again.
An awesome machine to watch, how the Swedes afforded to make their own jet fighters was pretty amazing but some clever engineers up there who need something to do through the winter darkness I guess
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