1/31/2008
Gripen surpasses 100,000 flight hours - Volvo Aero’s engine safest in the world
The Gripen aircraft surpassed the 100,000-hour mark during the week. It was during a flight over a snowy Östergötland landscape, with Saab’s Chief Test Pilot Mats Thorbiörnsson and a Colonel in the South African Air Force at the controls, that the historic milestone was surpassed.