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Skyhawk, a small and lightweight attack aircraft nicknamed the "Tinker Toy," was a surprisingly lethal workhorse for the U.S.
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 footage shows a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor engaging with an A-4K Skyhawk in the Nellis Test and Training Range.
In Top Gun—undoubtedly the most culturally relevant military aviation film ever made—the A-4 pops up multiple times.
FourLeaf Air Show at Jones Beach moves to July 4 weekend to mark America’s 250th birthday, featuring the U.S. Navy Blue ...
Heinemann also designed its replacement, the A-4 Skyhawk jet, which became known as “Heinemann’s Hotrod.” Its mission spanned from close air support to the delivery of a single nuclear bomb.
These warbirds carried an assortment of lethal missiles, too. For air-to-air combat, the A-4 Skyhawk could pop off AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles for self-defense.
The Skyhawk was the last aircraft flown by the Blue Angels before the introduction of fly-by-wire flight controls and their change to the F/A-18 Hornet.
Strip the airframe down to the bare skeleton, painstakingly restore the engine, avionics, and radar suite, and control surfaces to flight-ready status, and fly it in air shows or rent/sell it to ...