Two Finnish Air Force Saab 35 Draken fighter jets from Rovaniemi air base (Lapland Air Wing / Lapin Lennosto) flying in formation over the city of Rovaniemi. Suomi (Finland) - Rovaniemi, circa 1980 [3840x2560]

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[u/PuppeSupreme]

Hey, that might be my father flying, he was piloting Drakens at that time and based in Rovaniemi.

edit: Got actually some info from him. These are the Filip variants of Draken and pilots probably Hannes Bjurström and Markku Lappalainen.

[u/Soggy-Moment3856 → u/PuppeSupreme]

But who took the photo?

[u/NikNakskes → u/Soggy-Moment3856]

Dad did! That's how he knows who the other pilots were.

[u/Andrzej1963]

The Lapland Air Wing (Finnish: Lapin Lennosto), is the peace-time Finnish Air Force unit responsible for the protection of the airspace of northern Finland.

[u/finnomannn]

Beautiful birds, the Draken and MiG-21 still look futuristic even after more than 60 years.

[u/Zonianama → u/finnomannn]

It would be interesting to hear from a younger person if all you need to be futuristic is the delta wing design.

[u/jaysire → u/Zonianama]

I think it looks "retro-futuristic" like those 1950:s depictions of 2010.

[u/Odd-Jupiter → u/Zonianama]

Futurism is a bit confusing. Futuristic design is it's own style from the 1920's, like funktionalism, or modernism.

It has nothing to do with what we think the future will look like. The style will remain the same forever.

[u/Zonianama → u/Odd-Jupiter]

TIL that futurism and futuristic are the same thing. Are they really in everyday talk?

[u/Pax_Cthulhiana]

The thing not visible is how extremely LOUD the Draken's were

[u/AlexAssimilated]

oh my... what a different city! No Jätkänkynttilä, no Rinteenkulma, so many buildings that are no longer in Rovaniemi.

I know this photo is about fighter jets, but thanks for showing how Rovaniemi used to look back in ~1980 :)

[u/ChampionZestyclose13]

Yeah I remember those. They were so loud.

[u/ThisAccountIsBanned-]

Those jets made hideous sound when departing from airfield.

[u/Luknron → u/ThisAccountIsBanned-]

That's every fighter jet though 4 month old account.

[u/2AvsOligarchs]

https://youtu.be/JaZtt0pf8FU?t=159

[u/At_1975]

I lived most of my childhood near the base and they flew over our house several times per week

[u/Fancy_Particular7521]

You should have bought swedish again.

[u/TheHellWithItToday]

I wonder what was the reason for the big aircraft identidiers 'DK-123'? 

[u/ikauuk → u/TheHellWithItToday]

DK Draken HW Hawk HN Hornet JF F-35 PI Pilatus

Finnish air force naming standards are pretty simple

[u/IcyInvestigator6138 → u/TheHellWithItToday]

To let everyone know it’s a Draken

[u/CoopExtraVodka → u/TheHellWithItToday]

Propably so Soviet morons would know for sure that it was not the aircrafts of some other country. Sweden having access to Finland's airspace was probably a big no back then, as an example. The Soviet Union would not allow that. Denmark also flew Draken at this time. It was maybe a good choice to easily be able to tell the three air forces apart. 

[u/Nunnuka]

Yeah they were really really loud, we lived somewhere top left corner (where the airport is) and every window in our house shaked when they departed, or especially when they rushed towards north.