Did SAAB pioneer reverse thrust in fighter jets

[Windjammer]

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[Windjammer]

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[HRK]

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[Windjammer]

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[khail007]

Very useful application of TRs; amazing.
Such application of TRs enables aircraft to operate from remote fields/motorways with minimum equipment.
If incorporated in commercial aircrafts, need for pushback tractors and towbars could also be eliminated; even there will be no damage to NLGs caused by faulty pushback operation.
@Windjammer, Sir G, thanks for sharing, I have seen C130 with this capabilities, but never a fighter jet.

 

[MastanKhan]

Very useful application of TRs; amazing.
Such application of TRs enables aircraft to operate from remote fields/motorways with minimum equipment.
If incorporated in commercial aircrafts, need for pushback tractors and towbars could also be eliminated; even there will be no damage to NLGs caused by faulty pushback operation.
@Windjammer, Sir G, thanks for sharing, I have seen C130 with this capabilities, but never a fighter jet.

Hi,

It is used in commercial aircraft. Just go to youtube and search.

 

[Safriz]

Saab did many experiments and none of these were sustainable. Thrust reversing on such small planes make them unstable. Look at how the plane is wiggling.

This was a result of Thrust reversing.

 

[Penguin]

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We almost got the JA-37 rather than F16, back in the day. (pity, its a mean looking fighting machine ;-)

See 9:50 and on, for a real good look at the Viggen's thrust reverse, here:

Half-deployed target-type reverser of a RB.199 engine for the Panavia Tornado, one of a very few fighter aircraft with thrust reversal

or click this link: https://readtiger.com/img/wkp/en/Tornado_MFG1_landing_RAF_Mildenhall_1984.JPEG

This type also used on e.g. Concorde aircraft.
http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/photo/aircraft/20111026Paris/e.html

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

Saab did many experiments and none of these were sustainable. Thrust reversing on such small planes make them unstable. Look at how the plane is wiggling.

This was a result of Thrust reversing.

Pure Bullshit.
You found the crash of the first production aircraft, three months after delivery.
There was an earlier crash of a prototype during ground tests.
That was the two first Viggen crashes.

The issue was soon sorted out.

All 47 crashes are logged at http://members.tripod.com/teknik_flyg/viggen.htm (Swedish)
No other crash was attributed to reverse thrust.

Using reverse thrust was standard procedure during landing for the remainder of its use.

Gripen uses the canards as airbrakes for similar effect.

 

[Penguin]

Jas-39 canard braking

See 1:10