Tagged: Skyhawk

February 7, 2021

Our McDonnell DouglasA-4 Skyhawk Scrapbook

The Douglas/McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a lightweight, single engine, single pilot combat jet which performed its first flight on June 22, 1954. Intended as an aircraft carrier-based attack jet, it was built ruggedly to handle that punishing environment....

Airshow / demo teams / europe / fighters / Formation Flying / military / Transports / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

March 24, 2016

Seventy Years Strong: The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels

On April 24, 1946, shortly after the Second World War ended, Admiral Chester Nimitz, then Chief of Naval Operations, directed that a “flight demonstration team be organized within the Naval Advanced Training Command to represent the Navy at air...

Airshow / demo teams / fighters / military / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy / warbirds

October 22, 2015

Early Autumn Colors Bathe the 2015 NAS Oceana Air Show

Naval Air Station Oceana Virginia was awash with color during the weekend of September 19th and 20th. No, the Autumn foliage hadn’t really begun to blaze forth yet in Virginia, but this year’s air show was full of brilliant...

fighters / friends / military / post

May 20, 2010

Maj’s TA-4 Skyhawk takes to the Sky!! – VIDEO

Local owner Maj take’s his TA-4 airborne from Marana, Arizona and makes this wonderful video during his trip. Thats him in the back seat doing the filming. . Then he takes it to Chino California for the Chino Airshow...