Saab 210

The Saab 210, nicknamed Lilldraken or Little Dragon, was an approximately 70 percent scale research prototype for the double-delta wing of the Saab 35 Draken supersonic fighter. Under designer Erik Bratt, Saab was developing the novel double-delta configuration in the early 1950s, and it built this small aircraft to investigate its low-speed flight characteristics. It was tailless, with a bubble canopy, a swept tail fin, semi-retractable tricycle undercarriage and an Armstrong Siddeley Adder jet engine of about 1,000 pounds thrust. Its first flight was on 21 January 1952, flown by Bengt Olow. It was later modified as the 210B, with the air intakes moved back alongside the cockpit for a better view, and by its last flight on 25 October 1955 it had flown 887 sorties. The 210B is on display in the Air Force Museum in Linköping.