Tre Tunnor – SAAB J29 Tunnan.

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Originally shared by +Zhugderdemidiyn Zorigtoi (K.V.)

Painting by Aviation Artist Roger H. Middlebrook

The SAAB J29, known as the flying barrel can be described as SAABs first jet. The plans seen by the Swedish design team were for the Messerschmitt P.1107, an aircraft that never made it off the drawing board in Germany, yet gave the Swedes and later the British and Americans too an insight into the importance of swept-wing technology for high performance flight.