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The SAAB 91 Safir (English:"Sapphire") is a three (91A, B, B-2) or four (91C, D) seater, single engine trainer aircraft built by Saab in Linköping, Sweden, (203 aircraft) and De Schelde in Dordrecht, Netherlands (120 aircraft). Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 174 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Saab 91 Safir ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 174 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Saab 91 Safir ... Image File history File links Saab_91_Safir_Pirkkalassa. ... Image File history File links Saab_91_Safir_Pirkkalassa. ... Sapphire (from Hebrew: ×¡×¤Ö¼×™×¨ Sapir) is the single-crystal form of aluminium oxide (Al2O3), a mineral known as corundum. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Trainer may refer to: An aircraft trainer used for training pilots. ... An Airbus A380, currently the worlds largest airliner An aircraft is any vehicle or craft capable of atmospheric flight. ... Saab is an aviation and defense company based in Sweden and founded in 1937 in LinkÃ¶ping. ... This is about the Dutch city of Dordrecht. ...

The Saab 91A is powered by a 125-hp four cylinder De Havilland Gipsy Major 2c piston engine, or a 145-hp Gipsy Major 10 piston engine. The 91B, B-2 and C have a six cylinder Lycoming O-435A engine with 190 hp. The 91D has a four cylinder Lycoming O-360-A1A engine with 180 hp. A piston and cylinder from a steam engine A cylinder in an internal combustion engine is the space within which a piston travels. ... The de Havilland Gipsy Major was a 4-cylinder, air-cooled, inline engine used in a variety of light aircraft in the 1930s including the famous Tiger Moth biplane. ... For other meanings of Lycoming, please see Lycoming (disambiguation). ... The Lycoming O-360 is an air-cooled, carbureted, four-cylinder, horizontally opposed piston aircraft engine. ...

The all-metall Safir was designed by Anders J. Andersson, who had previously worked for Bücker, where he designed the all-wood Bücker Bü 181 "Bestmann". The Safir thus shares many conceptual features of its design with the Bestmann. BÃ¼cker-Flugzeugbau GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in 1932. ...

The "Safir" was later used as a platform to test at low speeds the new swept wing for the Saab J 29 Tunnan jet fighter. SAAB J 29 Tunnan (The Barrel) was a Swedish fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by Saab 1950 - 1956. ...

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The international prototype, made of platinum-iridium, which is kept at the BIPM under conditions specified by the 1st CGPM in 1889. ...

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Service

First flight on November 20, 1945, 323 units were built in 5 versions (A, B, B-2, C and D). The Safir was used by the Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Austrian, Tunisian and Ethiopean air forces as a trainer aircraft, and a single aircraft was used by the Japanese Self-Defense Force as an STOL test platform. November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1945: // Events January January 1 - the Luftwaffe begins targeting Allied airfields in Europe as Operation Bodenplatte February February 13-15 - Allied bombers attack Dresden with incendiary weapons, destroying most of the city and killing some 50,000 people. ... An Air force is a military or armed service that primarily conducts aerial warfare. ... STOL is an acronym for Short Take-Off and Landing, used in the aircraft industry to describe airplanes with very short runway requirements. ...

Major civilian users were Air France, Lufthansa and the Dutch Rijksluchtvaartschool (RLS) in Eelde, near Groningen. Air France (Compagnie Nationale Air France) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Before its merger with KLM, it was the national airline of France, employing 71,654 people (as of January 2005). ... Deutsche Lufthansa AG (pronounced ) is the largest German airline, and the second-largest in Europe (behind Air France-KLM, but before British Airways). ... Tynaarlo is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. ... Boroughs of Groningen Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. ...

During development of the Saab 29, the initial Saab 91 prototype was modified with a scaled down version of the Saab 29's swept wings; this aircraft was designated Saab 201 Experimental Aircraft. This same airframe was later fitted with wings designed for the Saab 32 Lansen; this was designated Saab 202. J 29 Tunnan was a Swedish Fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by SAAB History In the wake of the Second World War it was decided that Sweden needed a strong airdefence and it should be built around the hottest new technology around, jetengines. ... The SAAB A32 Lansen (Swedish:lance) was a two-seater attack aircraft produced by SAAB from 1955 to 1960 for Flygvapnet, the Swedish air force. ...

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