A-4 Skyhawk pilots recall thrilling CAS missions during the siege of Khe Sanh
The A-4 CAS missions flown during the siege of Khe Sanh The 1968 Tet Offensive was part of a larger communist attack that mostly failed, despite being primarily a land…
The A-4 CAS missions flown during the siege of Khe Sanh The 1968 Tet Offensive was part of a larger communist attack that mostly failed, despite being primarily a land…
The Skyhawk For more than ten years, France was Israel’s primary supplier of weapons. However, by the middle of the 1960s, it was determined to acquire advanced and powerful US…
Douglas A-4M Skyhawk restored to its former glory Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, North Carolina, artisans at the Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) recently had the exceptional chance…
‘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…
‘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…
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…