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General information
Type	Fighter
National origin	Sweden
Manufacturer	Saab AB
Primary users	Swedish Air Force /. Austrian Air Force
Number built	661
History
Manufactured	1948–1956
Introduction date	1951
First flight	1 September 1948
Retired	1976

The Saab 29 Tunnan (The Barrel), colloquially also Flygande Tunnan (The Flying Barrel), is an early jet-powered fighter aircraft designed and produced by the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab. It was the second turbojet-powered combat aircraft to be developed in Sweden, the first being the Saab 21R, and it was the first Western European fighter to be produced with a swept wing after the Second World War, only being preceded in Western Europe as a whole by the Messerschmitt Me 262 built during the conflict

Design

**J 29F *Tunnan* 29666/T at Soderhamn /F 15 Aviation Museum, Söderhamn Airport**

The Saab 29 Tunnan was the first Swedish aircraft to be specifically designed to use jet propulsion. Sweden's first jet fighter, the Saab 21R, had been modified from the piston-engined Saab 21. It is a small, chubby aircraft with a single round air intake in the nose, with the pilot under a bubble canopy directly above the air intake duct on the upper-forward section of the fuselage. It has a very thin mid-mounted moderately swept two-spar wing which is a single structure attached to the fuselage by four bolts. The undercarriage is hydraulically operated, and was designed to be suitable for use from rough airstrips. To improve pilot survivability, the Tunnan used an ejection seat Saab developed in 1943, with an explosive jettisoning system for the canopy

Saab AB Svenska Aeroplan

Saab AB Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget
Saab 29 Tunnan "The Flying Barrel", build 1948–1956

General Info

Crew: 1
Length: 10.23 m (33 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 11 m (36 ft 1 in)
Height: 3.75 m (12 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 24.15 m² (259.9 sq ft)

Powerplant

Empty weight: 4,845 kg Max takeoff weight: 8,375 kg Powerplant: 1 × Svenska Flygmotor RM2B centrifugal-flow turbojet engine with afterburning 6,200 lbf (27.58 kN) wet at 10,250 rpm; 4,750 lbf (21.1 kN) dry at 10,250 rpm.

Performance

Maximum speed: 1,060 km/h
Range: 1,100 km
Service ceiling: 15,500 m
Rate of climb: 32.1 m/s ft/min)

Armament

- Guns:

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The only aircraft lost was by a high-ranking officer who crashed during an aborted takeoff for a test flight. When ONUC ended in 1964, some of the Swedish aircraft were deliberately destroyed at their base, as they were no longer needed in Sweden, having been superseded by later variants, and the cost of returning them wasn't justified

Saab 29 Tunnan
"The Flying Barrel"

The J 29 was fast and agile, and set the world speed record on a 500 km (310 mi) closed circuit in 1954

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On 3 April 2008, the first Saab 2000 Erieye AEW&C was rolled out and presented to Pakistan Air Force officials during a ceremony in Sweden.

Saab AB Svenska Aeroplan Saab 29 Tunnan "The Flying Barrel", Manufactured 1948–1956