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 Douglas A-4 Skyhawk gets lost in the mix sometimes ... was just 24,500 pounds—about half of the Navy’s weight specifications. The jet featured a short-span delta wing, a tricycle ...
This Douglas A4D-2N (A-4C) Skyhawk is one of these comeback cases ... a sports car engine like what the F-104 Starfighter and F-4 Phantom II were flying with in those days. You had 8,400 lbs ...