DYNAMITE 6-1

A Swedish made air craft used by the Royal Danish Air Force. This will be a bit special version: After the Danish national football team, on June 8th 1986 won 6-1 against Uruguay during the World Cup in Mexico, a bunch of the personnel on Karup Air Base had hidden and redecorated "AR-117" - one of the Draken planes into a flying Dannebrog (the name of the Danish national flag), and sent up the very next morning under the callsign "DYNAMITE 6-1", named after the Danish team (Danish Dynamites) and the result.

The plane was hand painted by a handful of the pilots before the match; the name was given after the match.

Apart from being a show piece it was used in tactical flights, including a surveillance of parts of the Soviet fleet anchoring in Danish waters: The plane was only painted red and white on the top and side, but kept the green colour in the bottom: During this particular flight the AR-117 did indeed bank and yank quite a lot in order to "show the flag" so the Soviet Navy knew where they had anchored up... After this there came a decree that it was only to be used during exercises and climb and land quite steeply to avoid the colours to be seen from the ground. After an unauthorized flyby of the royal yacht the colours were struck on AR-117.

AR-117 joined the RDAF 20-DEC-71, it had it's last flight 04-AUG-93 and was officially retired 31-DEC-93.
01-JAN-95 it was sold to Flight Research Inc., CA, USA, only to sold to National Test Pilot School, Mojave, CA, USA a month after; It arrived 21-MAR-95 and got it's registry N217FR and had it's first flight 22-JUN-96 (my 11th birthday). It had it's last flight 13-FEB-01 where it flew from Mojave, CA to Yuma, AZ as far as I can see. But it was spotted 17-MAY-14 in Mojave next it's old colleague to AR-110 - both partly dissembled.