did he ever sell the Viggen or does he still have it?

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
did he ever sell the Viggen or does he still have it?

Donated to the Museum of Flight in Seattle

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Originally posted by jaaron11:
Isn't it funny how when something new and different comes along, people with no understanding of it say, "It'll never work!" Then, when they're shown how it works, the tune is, "Oh, that's pretty clever...". How anyone, even an aeronautical engineer, could dismiss the plane offhand based on only a picture alludes me.

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You don't have to be any kind of engineer to realize that that is a stupid design. Like was already mentioned, why were not the horizontal stabilizers continued as one piece between both fuselages? If you have ever even flown an aircraft and induced high g loads you will understand why that thin chord, center section could not possibly survive. There will be a tremendous amount of torque i.e. "bending" between the two fuselages. Not conecting them at the stabilizers is just pure insanity.