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...QUANTUM SAAB has a fiber-glass body developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, using an IBM computer to determine the best body design for road competition, low center of gravity, and good cornering capabilities. It is powered by Saab's 850 GT engine, which has won some top competitions in Europe...
...closest love was supposed to be her horse Geronimo, and Erik spent most of his time with a tiny red Saab. Still they kept bumping into each other on all the Motor Rally routes from Monte Carlo to Africa. In Helsinki, Pat Moss, 28, Britain's top woman driver and sister of Ace Driver Stirling Moss, announced her engagement to king-sized (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Swedish Champ Erik Carlsson, 33, twice winner of the Monte Carlo Rally. Though they have yet to fix the date-"very busy driving"-they firmly denied suggestions they might form...
Named for the three-tongued bolt of lightning that sparked from Thor's hammer, the Viggen was designed by Saab (for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget). Saab currently reaps half its $136 million annual sales from autos, trucks and tractors, but it is also the Continent's biggest privately owned aircraft manufacturer...
...Saab's designers have come up with an unusual configuration for the Viggen. To obtain both maximum efficiency at full throttle aloft and the slow landing speed needed for the short makeshift runways, Saab Chief Designer Erik Bratt, 46, turned to a design used at the time of the Wright brothers, but seldom since. Bratt has placed a canard-a nose wing with adjustable flaps-in front of the Viggen's main delta wing. The canard will help the Viggen make tighter turns-especially at supersonic speeds-and will slow it rapidly for landings...
Bratt's plane, which will be ready for flight testing two years from now, promises to be a bonanza for a large part of Swedish industry. Though the Swedish air force has traditionally acted as its own prime contractor on planes, Saab will perform that role for the Viggen and is now letting out subcontracts to 1,500 other Swedish firms. L. M. Ericsson, Sweden's aggressive manufacturer of telephone equipment, will be responsible for the Viggen's radar, Standard Radio (a Swedish subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph) will make the operations control system, and Svenska...