All the performance at half the weight-that about summed up the A-4 Skyhawk, one of the finest jet aircraft ever to have served with the US Navy and Marine Corps. The Douglas delta-wing aircraft, ordered during the Korean War, first reached the Navy's carrier wings in 1956 and the ...
Skyhawks were the Navy's primary light bomber used over North Vietnam during the early years of the Vietnam War while the USAF was flying the supersonic F-105 Thunderchief; they were later supplanted by the A-7 Corsair II in the Navy light bomber role. Skyhawks carried out some of the...
Skyhawks played key roles in the Vietnam War, the Yom Kippur War, and the Falklands War. Sixty years after the aircraft's first flight in 1954, some of the 2,960 produced (through February 1979)[1] remain in service with the Argentine Air Force and the Brazilian Naval Aviation. ...
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- On a mission over North Vietnam with VA-76, he became the only A-4 Skyhawk pilot to shoot down a North Vietnamese MiG-17. David "Whizzer" WHITE - Single handedly conceived and founded "The Skyhawk Association"; gave it its motto, "A-4s Forever", and built the organization to ...
making it the most-produced American supersonic aircraft ever. It was the main US fighter jet in the Vietnam War, operating from aircraft carriers. The F-4 was still used in the 1990s during the Gulf War, suppressing air defenses in the "Wild Weasel" role. The F-4 was capable of carr...
Skyhawks that had become the TOPGUN preferred surrogate for the MiG-17. At the time, the F-4 Phantom was just beginning to be exploited to its full potential as a fighter and had not performed as well as expected against the smaller North Vietnamese MiG-17 and MiG-21 opponents. TOP...
Rampant Raider: An A-4 Skyhawk Pilot in VietnamThe article reviews the book "Rampant Raider: An A-4 Skyhawk Pilot in Vietnam," by Stephen R. Gray.u.s.naval institute proceedings
Navy Retires Old Friend A-4 Skyhawk Jet Fondly RememberedThe attack plane that carried thousands of American pilots into combat over Vietnam and trained...By PinzurMatthew I
But it was an endless source of frustration to all concerned that weather conditions over Hue prevented all forms of air support for all but the first few and last few days of the month-long struggle by three Marine battalions to eject two reinforced North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regiments ...