J 35A –The first version of the Draken. Capable of performing fighter tasks. A small retractable wheel was placed on the rear fuselage as the angle of the nose was required to be elevated during landings to stop the airplane. But the wheel was also placed as the fuselage was enlarged, ...
We even had great success with the SAAB Draken, which in the early days of the F-16 were able to shoot them down (in practice, so not for real), showing that even older designs from SAAB were pretty good! The SAAB Draken is (was) inherently a (very) stable design, and doesn’t ...