JAS 39 Gripen: The Best Fighter Plane You Never Heard Of

JAS 39 Gripen: The Best Fighter Plane You Never Heard Of

On the surface, Sweden’s JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft should be beating the pants off its opposition. As a combat platform, it is probably the best value for money of any fighter in the market today. It has the lowest cost-per-flight hour of any other combat aircraft in service with any NATO air force. It

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    More News today (an overview of a few items we’re not covering right now)

    For various reasons including that we have already covered these or don’t have room or time, this is more news:

    • The NTSB is probing the Manhattan Township, Illinois crash that killed Larry Allan Diffley, head of Bemidji Aviation
    • The pilot that was killed in a plane crash in Yuma on November 24 was Denise Jeanette McCracken
    • The investigation into the Greensburg crash (that killed pilot Donald Horan, Horan’s 44-year-old wife Barbara, 45-year-old Stephen Butz and his 42-year-old wife, Denise) is expected to take over six months.
    • Local police and media believed a November 30 Chicago plane crash set to be a real crash
    • NTSB report is out on the crash that killed pilot Tom Steeper on his way from Houston to Oklahoma on November 26, when the plane crashed in southern Cherokee County.
    • Preliminary reports are out for the Rochester,MN; Mekoryuk AK; and Bolivar, Mo non-fatal crashes in December; and the fatal crashes in Apollo Beach, FL; Blair, NE; Clutier, IA; Childress, TX; Scio, OR; Wells, TX; Corona, CA; San Andreas, CA; Great Guana Cay, Bahamas;
    • Bosnian and Herzegovinan authorities are re-opening the investigation of the February 26th 2004 plane crash that killed Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski.
    • Kevin Barry Jnr, who suffered extensive fractures and a brain injury in a Cessna crash on July 5 2007 is settling in Irish High Court for €1.7m against Lancton Taverns Ltd, SCD House, Waterloo Road, Dublin, and its director David Courtney.
    • The South African Defence Force confirms that six crew members and five passengers died in a plane crash.
    • Knox County Regional Airport in Owls Head is taking new safety measures after the Nov. 16 crash that killed U of Maine students and alumnus.
    • Joshua Marlow, sole survivor of the July South Dakota firefighting crash was promoted from tech sergeant to master sergeant.
    • Failure of one of a Boeing 787’s six electrical generators failed, causing the pilot of United Houston-Newark Flight 1146 to divert his 174 passengers and 10 crew safely to New Orleans.
    • United Express Regional Jet made an emergency landing at Grand Junction Regional Airport
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