When information concerning the successful accomplishment of the world's first supersonic flight (October 14,1947, Bell X-1, 46-062) reached Sweden during late 1947. a small engineering team in the Svenska Aeroplan Aktieboliaget (SAAB) engineering department suddenly was given incentive to approach a proposed new fighter project from a somewhat different perspective. With confirmation in hand that supersonic flight was possible, SAAB's small but extraordinarily capable design bureau intended that whatever aircraft they produced to accommodate their country's defensive needs from the 1950s onward, it would become an eaily beneficiary of the X-1's unique technological triumph.
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