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A-4 Skyhawk: The Warplane That Freaked Out America's Enemies
This attribute made it easier to store on aircraft carriers. Speed-wise, the Skyhawk was very quick in the car. Often dubbed Heinemann’s Hot Rod after the airframe’s lead designer, the A-4 set ...
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The A-4 Skyhawk Is A Movie Star—And A Great Fighter Jet, Too
The A-4 Skyhawk seems to have fallen between the cracks ... soon-to-be-astronaut Al Shephard lands his Navy A-4 on a carrier before being recruited to apply for NASA’s Mercury program.
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The U.S. Navy’s A4 Skyhawk Was the Stuff of Legend
post-World War II aircraft carriers. The Douglas Aircraft Company (now owned by Boeing) answered the Navy’s call by building the A-4 Skyhawk. Ed Heinemann, the lead designer for the A-4 Skyhawk ...
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Brazil selling the only aircraft carrier in South America, A12 Sao Paulo
And it effectively strands the navy’s small fleet of carrier-compatible Skyhawk fighters. The 33,000-ton-displacement Sao Paulo has a storied past, as Robert Beckhusen explained in a 2017 story.