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05/22/2005. Remarks by Nico Braas: "Fitted with a SFA STWC3-G (a copied Pratt and Whitney Twin-Wasp SC3-G aircooled radial engine) the J 22 was a wartime Swedish design for a fighter constructed from available non-strategical materials like steel and wood. The FFVS (Flygförvaltningens Verkstad or Air Board Workshop) was specially formed to assemble the aircraft (designed by Bo Lundberg), about 500 subcontractors delivering the components. A total of 200 was built, consisting of two prototypes and 198 production aircraft in two different armed versions. These were the J 22A fitted with two 0.31 in (7.9 mm) M/22F and two 0.52 in (13.2 mm) machine guns and the J 22B fitted with four 0.52 in (13.2 mm) machine guns. The prototype first flew on September 21, 1942, 6 months after the first batch of 60 was ordered off the drawing board. The first production was delivered on November 23, 1943 the last on April 6, 1946. The plane on the picture is in the markings of the 1st Divisin of F 3, and is one of the three J 22's still existing. It is now part of the Swedish air force museum at Malmen." |
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