The A-4 Skyhawk was one of the most recognizable fighter aircraft from the Vietnam era. A small, agile, carrier-ready design, it could fill a variety of roles. Although it has been largely forgotten, ...

Painted in distinctive black schemes with a Playboy Bunny adorning the tail, mimicking an aircraft of the prominent ...

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 ...

Designed as an entry point for the Soviet fighter school, DOSAAF, the Yak-52 was built to closely resemble future jet aircraft such as the L-29 Delfin, L-39 Albatross, and MiG-15. Outside of military ...

By Sheila Harris Retired Navy Captain Edward Estes, a former resident of Purdy, had a story he liked to share about the time ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

For the latest news, view our story for Tuesday, Feb. 4. WASHINGTON – Salvage crews ... which will first focus on retrieving the mangled passenger plane before turning to the helicopter and ...

At least 11 of these recent flights around the US have been by Navy P-8s, a particularly prized ... and passed near Sinaloa on February 4. That plane, an Air Force RC-135 “Rivet,” specializes ...

then spent the next six years as a US Navy “tailhooker” flying A-4 Skyhawk jets from aircraft carriers (including a combat tour in Vietnam). Brad and his wife Carol then spent most of the next ...

Fitzgerald researched Stratton's life for the city when a street was named in honor of him. He said that Stratton was born and raised in North Quincy, where he grew up on Bowdoin Street, attended ...

Video showed a crane pulling more wreckage from the icy waters as piles of mangled debris lay on a U.S. Navy barge ... said parts of the wrecked passenger plane were offloaded from the barge ...

QUINCY – Mayor Thomas Koch was 12 when he first met Navy Capt. Richard Stratton ... Charles Sweeney, a North Quincy High graduate who flew the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese ...