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Song Parodies -> "Swedish J-22"
Original Song Title:
"I Put a Spell on You"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Parody Song Title:
"Swedish J-22"
Parody Written by:
Robert D. Arndt Jr.
The Lyrics
Just as WW2 began, Sweden faced a severe aircraft shortage of fighters and bombers. Looking to the US, two orders were placed for P-35s and P-66 aircraft. Only the former delivered due an arns embargo in 1940. Since Saab was overloaded, a new firm FFVS was created to build an emergency fighter using only local materials and an unlicensed copy of the P&W Twin Wasp engine. Tubular steel airframe covered in birch plywood and narrow track gear, the J-22 had a speed of 360 mph and was a low altitude performancer of diminutive size. First flight in 1942 and operational by 1943. Used by F9 near Gothenburg. No combat with Luftwaffe which did shoot down 3 Swedish Caproni CA.313s in 1944 and a Re.2000 in 1945 by a Dornier 24 flying boat! Had the Germans carried out plans to invade Sweden, both the Me Bf 109 and Fw-190 would have swept the J-22 from the sky...
Swedish J-22
Fast design
World War export embargo
Twin Wasp for takin'
Stubby fighter creatin'
Flygvapnet needed it
Gladiator replacement found
Forget the Capronis!
FFVS came around
(Tube steel and birch plywood sound)
Swedish J-22
Fast design
100+ by '45
Armed 7.9s and 13.2s
Good low altitude
Performance good(?)
Diminutive fighter
Mock fights with Stangs
Held own at low
But lost when flown higher!
Emergency!
Swedish J-22
Fast design
(Gear of 159, look of stubby 190*)
Fast design
World War export embargo
Twin Wasp for takin'
Stubby fighter creatin'
Flygvapnet needed it
Gladiator replacement found
Forget the Capronis!
FFVS came around
(Tube steel and birch plywood sound)
Swedish J-22
Fast design
100+ by '45
Armed 7.9s and 13.2s
Good low altitude
Performance good(?)
Diminutive fighter
Mock fights with Stangs
Held own at low
But lost when flown higher!
Emergency!
Swedish J-22
Fast design
(Gear of 159, look of stubby 190*)
* Narrow track gear that retracted into fuselage similar to Fw-159 parasol fighter and stubby nose with radial similar to early Fw-190s!
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Note: in all fairness, the Swedes also had a twin boom Pusher using a licensed DB 605 engine with heavy armament of 1x 20mm cannon and 4x 13.2mm MGs (2 upper, 2 wings). It's performance, however, was again inferior to German late war models. Speed of 398 mph, 2950 fpm climb, 36,000 ft ceiling. It did have an early ejection seat though and tricycle gear. A postwar variant subbed a Brit jet engine as pusher, J-21R. Phased out by '49.
Long before my time I'm afraid, J35 Draken was the plane we relied on when I was young and for my fathers generation it must have been J29 Tunnan. A "tunna" BTW translates to a "barrel" - one picture should be enough to understand why. :-)
Delightful techno-gibberish. LOL
The captured Me P.1101 influenced many Western postwar fighters: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29415369@N05/4930051625/in/photostream
In Sweden, the SAAB design team under Lars Brising acquired P.1101 data and used it to explore the swept-wing configuration with an experimental version of the SAAB 91 Safir. This led to development of the SAAB 29 Tunnan (Barrel), designated J29 by the Royal Swedish Air Force and first flown on Sept. 1, 1948, with British test pilot Robert A. Moore doing the honors. While it had roots in the P.1101, it did not employ variable-sweep technology. SAAB built 661 Tunnans between 1950 and 1956.
An extraordinarily self-indulgent, dreadfully uninteresting catalog of military bafflegab. I checked in to read cleverly funny parodies. I see military history and a freaking tritone!
Meant for Peter who is from Sweden. Btw, the Saab J39 Gripen, like the other Eurocanards, is better than the F-22 which was beaten by the Luftwaffe Typhoon in Alaska!!! Russian Sukhoi 27 family also better than both the F-22 and bug-plagued overdue F-35. Pak Fa enters service this summer.
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