‘I had a catastrophic turbine failure that buzz sawed the back end of my plane and turned the plane into a fireball. I was going about 500 knots indicated. I…
‘While we were doing this search for airplanes, a couple of squadrons were coming back from Vietnam and were being decommissioned. They had the A-4F, which was the latest model…
‘I will say this—and I know a lot of other Navy guys that would say the same thing—my fun meter was probably most pegged flying the A-4 Skyhawk,’ Jim Danhakl,…
‘This one pilot had made the Yuma run in a TA-4J on Friday and was returning to Jacksonville on Sunday. Due to the time zone shift it’s likely that he…
‘Yes, the A-4 Skyhawk was agile. However, it takes more than agility to make a good fighter,’ John Chesire, former US Naval Aviator and TOPGUN graduate 2,960 A-4 Skyhawk aircraft…
‘With the A-4, you don’t actually fly it as you wear it. It quickly and responsively becomes an extended part of you and will do most anything you desire it…
It was the only occasion an A-4 Skyhawk from the Royal New Zealand Air Force had opened fire in anger When Jim Jennings fired a warning shot over the bow…
VA-163 went through 3 A-4 Skyahwk CAG jets on the ’67 cruise… 150132 was lost on Aug. 20, and 149959 went down over Hanoi, on Oct. 26. 152003 took the…
Despite the fact that Estocin’s A-4E caught fire on its final approach, he managed to land safely into the barrier, and the fire crew extinguished the flames as he descended…
The Douglas Aircraft A-4 Skyhawk was a family of light attack bombers manufactured and used by the United States Navy. It was designed to replace the AD-1 Skyraider, which had…