Skyhawk, a small and lightweight attack aircraft nicknamed the "Tinker Toy," was a surprisingly lethal workhorse for the U.S.

The Skyhawk was swiftly improved in the A-4B variant with improved avionics and the capability for air-to-air refueling—not just with tanker aircraft, but even from one Skyhawk to another.

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a very versatile light attack-bomber that has been a U.S. Navy first-line aircraft for many years. Despite its relatively small size, it is able to carry a large and varied ...

The A-4 Skywalk was a lightweight beast when it was introduced in the 1950s. Here's its top speed, which even set a world record for class C aircraft.

In the early morning hours on July 4th, 1986, 21-year-old Lance Corporal Howard A. Foote Jr. climbed a ladder leading into the cockpit of an A-4M Skyhawk. He started the jet up, taxied to one of ...

Remembering the A-4 Skyhawk The A-4 can be seen in the epic film The Right Stuff, when Al Shepphard lands an A-4 on an aircraft carrier before being recruited to join NASA.

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was the kind of attack airplane that comes along once, maybe twice in a generation. A deadly accurate ground attack jet with the room for many tons of ordinance under its ...

The private provider of adversary air support has been providing aggressor training to the Royal Canadian Air Force using a fleet of modified Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jets and Bombardier Learjet 35s.

The Zuni shot out of the rocket pod, severing the arm of a crewman who was in the rocket’s path, and hitting an A-4 Skyhawk. The rocket ruptured the side of the aircraft, causing 3,200 pounds of ...

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a versatile carrier-based, light attack-bomber that has been a U.S. Navy first-line aircraft for many years. In Vietnam, A-4s were used both in close support of ground ...