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Cazzie

Cazzie

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I wanted to do something special for my first repaint of Piglet's drop-dead gorgeous SAAB J21-A, so I picked around with an overall Swedish blue and yellow fringed hypothetical Swedish Flight Demonstration Squadron. This has to be about the most balance aircraft I have flown, it was made for aerobatics! :medals:

Many thanks Piglet, now get back to work and bring out that J21-R jet version! :icon_lol:

Seriously, the SAAB J21 series was the only one (some consider the Yak-9 also, a jet version of the Yak-3) that had production of the same design with both a piston and a jet engine. The original J21-A was designed around a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial, but when Sweden could not procure the engines, they bought Daimler-Benz 601s and resigned the fuselage for them.

Repaint uploaded to our friendly Outhouse about 30 minutes ago, look for it soon.

Caz

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Superb Job Cazzie. Thanks for the nice paint. . .and thanks to Tim for a terrific aircraft.
 
Pretty!:ernae::ernae:
P.S. The Yak-15 was the jet version of the Yak-3. The Yak-9 was piston powered, and built in the greater numbers than other WW2 Soviet fighter.
Seems that Sweden built R-1820 engines w/o license in WW2. After the war, the Swedes came to P&W to pay the license fees. Stunned by the Swede's honesty, the fee was set at $1!
 
Piglet said:
Pretty!:ernae::ernae:
P.S. The Yak-15 was the jet version of the Yak-3. The Yak-9 was piston powered, and built in the greater numbers than other WW2 Soviet fighter.
Seems that Sweden built R-1820 engines w/o license in WW2. After the war, the Swedes came to P&W to pay the license fees. Stunned by the Swede's honesty, the fee was set at $1!
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It's just a bee-atch getting old Piglet! I knew that, like I knew it was a DB-605, even have a plastic Yak-9 model not 15 feet from where I sit. I better have a test for Alzheimer's!

Didn't know the last fact, now I have to try and remember it. Take note kiddies, I don't think it's really that we forget when we get old, it's the fact we have retained so much information over the years that we oft times can't find the files in the mass of neurons!

Caz
 
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