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Kommer du håg något av inspelningen av 1956-års Åsa-Nisse-film, "Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften"? Stockholms flygskolas Klemm'ar var med och agerade där...bland andra...

Hi Thor,

Your story, Thor, is absolutely fantastic. It reminds me so much about my own experiences in those golden days. It was in 1954 that I spent some time at Ska-Edeby. I worked for Svensk Flygtjanst in those days and we used one of the hangars at Ska-Edeby to keep the target gliders. My job was to assemble these and to trim them to fly properly behind the B 17s and Fairies that Svensk Flygtjanst operated those days.

I remember that the doors to the hangar we used were hinged at ground level and that they were lowered by hanging on to the crank, also used to raise them, by dear life. Closing the hangar was even more difficult as the doors had to be cranked from a horizontal position to a vertical position. This was indeed a very heavy job.

We came under some fire at one time. It happened from time to time that the wire that connected the towing aircraft with target was hit and the target glided away by its own. The complaint we got was that we trimmed the targets to well so that they went on gliding and out of control for far too long.

One other memory I have was that the hearing of one of our pilots was not what one would expect. If the target glider was not hit it was brought back to Ska-Edeby and landed there. As the aircraft came in someone on the ground would guide the pilot by radio so that the target glider would land on the airfield. Remember now that the target was a long way behind and below the towing aircraft. As it approached, the man on the ground would instruct the pilot to descend, keep the flight level, or climb as appropriate. With the target glider on the ground the ground controller would call ‘Cut’ and the guy in the back seat would cut the wire to the target. This worked out very well except sometimes when our hard-of-hearing pilot did the flying. We, on the ground, could as well forget all about it. The target glider was sometimes on the ground well OUTSIDE the perimeter fence and asking the pilot to pull up did absolutely nothing. The result was that the glider came roaring through the perimeter fence and then finished the landing dragging some 100 metres or so of fence behind it.

My other memory from Ska-Edeby was from July 31st, 1955 when there was some fly-in competition. I arrived from Bromma in a Klemm 35 with a Mr T. Tottie as pilot. I suppose everyone else had left by the time the navigation trial was due so I was asked if I could be the navigator for Mr Tottie. I suppose I did not do too badly because we found our way back. I am not sure we scored too many points, or any at all, in finding the various targets.

Thanks again for your wonderful story.

Hello Thor,

Wonderful picture but I am afraid that I can not help you with any names. Sorry. Hope someone else will be able to help you.

Hej! Jag undrar om du vet något om en flygmek på Skå som hette Yngve Hermansson, uppvuxen på Troxhammars by sedermera lärling hos Hydèn samt jobbade hos Gunnar på Bromma Bil el. Denna gosse var rödhårig och en jävel att köra motorcykel med en Ariel -1947 han hade även en A-Ford som han disponerade.
MVH Björn Andersson ( Flybear)