I am a 68 year old italian ( class 1953 ) and I have always cheered for the Marinrs and the US Navy in Nam War and I love the " Scooter ". I realized my dream to fly in the A-4E thanks to the DCS simulator and the Community A-4E that made this plane. Thanks to you for this beatiful video.
As of 2022 both Argentina and Brazil have active A-4 Skyhawk variants in active duty roles. Several contractors utilize them for training and aggressor roles. And several individuals are flying one for air shows.
Man alive does watching this bring back a lot of cherished memories of being able to go on a lot of back seat rides in the A-4 TJ’s of VT-22 at NAS KINGSVILLE , Texas back in 1970-72.
Amazing this bird is still flying. My father flew over 194 combat missions in A4s during the Vietnam war. He had praised it's ability to outflank enemy fighters and it's ability to carry weapons. He said it would be around a long time. He was right.
The F/A 18 fighter is one of my favorite fighters but the A-4 is what I watched for years and years when it came to the Blue Angels. There's something about how these fighters sneak up and then you hear the engines at the last second really loud!! That just did something for me! Really liked the roll of the A-4 as a Blue Angel better...…..
The A4 Skyhawk fighter was always my favorite in the 80s. It is full of stories and political intrigue about Indonesian people, especially the Air Force (AURI), and has all the advantages and disadvantages compared to ASEAN countries.
A-4's were a bit before my time, been phased out and replaced with the A-7's, but the fleet squadrons maintained the Light Attack moniker until the A-7's were replaced by the F/A-18's. When I was deployed to MCAS Iwakuni Japan in 86 one Marine squadron was deployed with us in the A-4M, think it was the M because it had the ECM hump behind the canopy.
They could have been Mikes, but the ECM hump was first introduced on the Foxes, and later retrofitted to some Echos. Other ways to ID the Mike are the squared-off tail with the IFF antenna on top and the larger canopy with vertical bars on the windscreen (as opposed to oval).
0:47 There are five Skyraiders and eight Skyhawks parked on the deck of a carrier. Can you guess the year Would it be 1967?
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Superlative video. Argentina Air Force still use them. It is our only plane to defend us from F-16´s from our neighbours. We have 4 or 5 actually working. One crashed killing his pilot weeks ago, the ejection sear broke his neck it seems. Regards.
0:42 Color picture of instrument panel; what crazy kind of revetment hanger is that? 6:36 What is that which looks like visible moisture at the pilot's left shoulder? The A-4 is on my short list of favorite aircraft. And it is relatively affordable on the civ market. I have color video dad took of two A-4s making napalm strike 1/4 mile from base at Da Nang. It is Super 8 transferred to CD.
Skyhawk confirmed that piston engined aircraft were dead, even and especially in their last bastion, carriers, and yet we see the Skyraider continue until the 1970s
@2:45 What an insult... an airplane made in the former Czechoslovakia, a former Soviet block nation... flying around in U.S. Navy BLUE ANGELS colors... hell, the Skyhawk is the one that should have been in B.A. colors.
