Saab J 29F Tunnan - 29606 - Side Profile View

The Saab 29 Tunnan was a single-seat, single-engine transonic aircraft and first-generation jet fighter. It was a small aircraft with a single... more

by Ed Jackson

Title

Saab J 29F Tunnan - 29606 - Side Profile View

Artist

Ed Jackson

Medium

Digital Art - Vector Art

Description

The Saab 29 Tunnan was a single-seat, single-engine transonic aircraft and first-generation jet fighter. It was a small aircraft with a single central air intake placed at the nose, a bubble cockpit and thin sweptback wings. It was the very first Western European design to have a swept wing layout, 25 degrees rearward,
incorporating many of the latest technologies of the time. Saab obtained access to wartime German studies involving swept wings and their positive effects in regards to speed in Switzerland, and as a result, the J 29 Tunnan came to be similar to the German Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Me P1101 project.
The Tunnan acheived a top speed of 1,035 km/h which made it one of the fastest aircraft in the world at the time of its debut in 1950. The nickname: ‘Flying Barrel’ or ‘Tunnan’ in Swedish was coined due to the shape of the fuselage, which came to resemble the shape of a barrel due to the large cross section of the engine and the size of the engine itself along with a tapered nose and aft section.

Tunnan 29606 is depicted here as seen around 1962 loaded with 24 75mm rockets.

Drawn entirely in Adobe Illustrator.

I do commissions! See more at my website www.artbyedo.com

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Uploaded

July 21st, 2016