{"id":52463,"date":"2023-07-20T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52463"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:06:07","slug":"the-spectacular-and-flaming-exhibition-of-a-jas-39c-gripen-fighter-of-the-czech-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/20\/the-spectacular-and-flaming-exhibition-of-a-jas-39c-gripen-fighter-of-the-czech-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"The spectacular and flaming exhibition of a JAS-39C Gripen fighter of the Czech Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most advanced fighters on the market is the Swedish Saab JAS-39 Gripen, an excellent aircraft used by two NATO air forces.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/12\/l-159-alca-this-is-the-first-fighter-made-by-a-nato-country-that-ukraine-could-receive\/\">L-159 ALCA: this is the first fighter made by a NATO country that Ukraine could receive<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/20\/the-impressive-dump-and-burn-of-a-hungarian-jas-39c-gripen-fighter-at-raf-fairford\/\">The impressive 'dump and burn' of a Hungarian JAS-39C Gripen fighter at RAF Fairford<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>One of them is the Czech Air Force, which has <strong>14 JAS-39s (12 JAS-39C single-seaters and two JAS-39D two-seaters) stationed in its 211 Taktick\u00e1 Letka<\/strong> (211th Tactical Squadron). One of their JAS-39Cs, 9242 (cn 39-242), was at The Royal International Ait Tattoo, at RAF Fairford, England, last weekend and offered <strong>an excellent aerial display that included a \"dump and burn\"<\/strong>, a maneuver that consists of unloading fuel from the plane's tanks and setting it on fire with the afterburning of the reactor. You can see here the video published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Tonkatsu298\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tonkatsu298<\/a> about this exhibition:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RIAT 2023 JAS-39C Gripen Czech Air Force The Royal International Ait Tattoo\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMkRxKXSsI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here is the video shot by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ElwynR\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elwyn R<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dump &amp; Burn \ud83d\ude2e RIAT 2023 JAS-39C Gripen Czech Air Force The Royal International Ait Tattoo\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g32XagWv_dM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here you can see some screenshots from the video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Tonkatsu298\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tonkatsu298<\/a>, in 4K quality and including shots with a lot of zoom, like this image of the JAS-39C folding its gear after takeoff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53059853290_46f0b49401_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we see <strong>a pass of the Czech fighter at very low speed<\/strong>, showing the beautiful lines of the Gripen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53059947943_2f46d11ba4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the \"dump and burn\" moment<\/strong>, during which the Czech fighter fired two flares from its nozzle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53059853295_d35b9df4c3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To complete the show, <strong>the Czech Gripen made a crosswind landing<\/strong>, with the plane diagonal to the runway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53059853310_abe3990b72_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most advanced fighters on the market is the Swedish Saab JAS-39 Gripen, an excellent aircraft used by two NATO air forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[19249,19248,10737],"class_list":["post-52463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-212th-tactical-squadron-of-the-czech-air-force","tag-czech-air-force","tag-czech-republic"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 23:45:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}