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the Chief designer of the project fighter R1001 Bruising during the visit to the firm "De Havilland" met with a new much more powerful turbojet engine "GOST". This engine with a centrifugal compressor of large diameter and became the main engine of the new fighter project. Thickened this engine out of the Saab J. 29 has received the name "Tunnan" ("the Bull" in Swedish). A small pilot's cabin was high above the ground, and the tail was mixed in a thin tail boom above the exhaust nozzle. The main landing gear was retracted into the fuselage, as the wing was very thin. The wing of the new fighter to base it on the field airfields was heavily mechanized. Automatic slotted slats deflected synchronously with the flaps. For testing this system, a light aircraft SAAB 91 "Sapphire" with a wing representing an exact copy of the wing of the future fighter, but reduced by half.
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