Summary and Key Points: The A-4 Skyhawk, nicknamed "Tinker Toy" for its small frame, was a versatile and legendary U.S. Navy and Marine Corps attack aircraft. Entering service in the 1950s ...
The Douglas Aircraft Company (now owned by Boeing) answered the Navy’s call by building the A-4 Skyhawk. Ed Heinemann, the lead designer for the A-4 Skyhawk, encapsulated the Skyhawk’s ethos ...
The Navy retired its last Skyhawk in 2003, a full 51 years after the sea service issued a contract for the first prototype of the aircraft. In the skies over Vietnam, the A-4 Skyhawk logged more ...
This Douglas A4D-2N (A-4C) Skyhawk is one of these comeback cases. A Navy spec carrier-capable multi ... like what the F-104 Starfighter and F-4 Phantom II were flying with in those days.