Talk:Erik Bratt

References

The article is translated from the Swedish Wikipedia where the main references of the data is from "Vem är det" (see https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vem_%C3%A4r_det) "Whos that" that is a traditional yearly book about Who is who in Sweden and digitalised at http://runeberg.org/vemardet/1969/0151.html (I thought the reference of the man to the Swedish Wikipedia was enough).

This man is a personalised icon (publically known in Sweden (but most likely not aboard) and a construction team leader of the actual work of the construction of iconic air fighters in the Swedish air force during the cold war. There were technologically outstanding achievements made and the government spent huge sums in the largest air force in Europe around 1960 and needed personalized icons of it. That is why there are articles like: https://www.nyteknik.se/digitalisering/festligt-nar-draken-fyller-50-6439934

Bratt collected a team of specialists like Hermann Behrbohm with huge experience from Messerschmitt and people for the future like Bertil Dillner that made career at Boeing later, with this experience as his basic merits. There were other technological achievements like the internal flow issues making the side air intakes possible on high speed jets made by Olof Ljungström and Einar Bergström and the link of these works are very important in flight history. (We shall not forget that the projects were military secrets and of security issues, so Bratt was publically fronting and the others were more or less concealed.)

The man was awarded about everything someone in his position could get. (He is not just a boss, he was a public star in Sweden. He was the man the journalists referred to and interviewed.)

One basic problem is that Saab AB has scrapped the staff archives and the references we can get is mainly from the press and old "Who is who" books.

Thing is that in the English Wikipedia this man needs to be put in his context (important fact for the reader to know), in Sweden publically known.

Excessive citations

There is a request of references and they are a number of parliament decisions in Sweden refereed to as "The Swedish parliaments defence decision 1958", defining the Swedish defence policies until 1990.

Thing is that there is a missing English article about the Swedish parliaments defence decision 1958, that describes and defines the funding grounds for the vast expansion of the Swedish air force. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6rsvarsbeslutet_1958

I am happy to translate it when I have time, however it must be rewritten for an international viewer, the article in the Swedish Wikipedia is too domestic in its context.

Please wait for that improvement and then we can refer these references to that article instead? --37.247.9.228 (talk) 13:29, 2 October 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzalpha (talk • contribs) 13:11, 2 October 2020 (UTC)