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Scooters Forever (A-4 Skyhawk Tribute Thread)

HuggyU2 said:
My friend Jerod flies Skyhawk 518. Beautiful TA-4.

Two seats would be great! I think it's still for sale too.
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If memory serves there was a time when you could get your hands on a TA-4, but the J52 engine was verboten. There was at least one Frankenhawk TA-4 back-converted to J65 power. I'm glad to see that 518 has the J52.
 
This excellent video featuring the venerable A-4 Skyhawk was recently shared among a few surviving squadron members of the VA-146 Blue Diamonds (1966-67), and then shared with me. Today we are celebrating the anniversary of my Father's 90th Birthday. Many of you knew him here as BusyBee604 before his passing in 2016. He would want me to share it with his fellow AirWarriors and Scooter fanatics...my apologies if this is a double tap.
 
maxsonic said:
This excellent video featuring the venerable A-4 Skyhawk was recently shared among a few surviving squadron members of the VA-146 Blue Diamonds (1966-67), and then shared with me. Today we are celebrating the anniversary of my Father's 90th Birthday. Many of you knew him here as BusyBee604 before his passing in 2016. He would want me to share it with his fellow AirWarriors and Scooter fanatics...my apologies if this is a double tap.
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It's really been 8 years? Wow. Here's to him!
 
maxsonic said:
This excellent video featuring the venerable A-4 Skyhawk was recently shared among a few surviving squadron members of the VA-146 Blue Diamonds (1966-67), and then shared with me. Today we are celebrating the anniversary of my Father's 90th Birthday. Many of you knew him here as BusyBee604 before his passing in 2016. He would want me to share it with his fellow AirWarriors and Scooter fanatics...my apologies if this is a double tap.
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That . . . was . . . awesome. Thank you for sharing . . .
 
The A-4 (old A4D) was a 1950s design -- minimum weight, minimum complexity and just three stores stations: nuclear bomb on the centerline and a pair of 150-gallon fuel tanks to be dropped beneath the wings. A dedicated nuclear delivery vehicle. The metamorphosis from that crude light attack aircraft to today's fighter (after all, isn't an adversary aircraft a dedicated air-to-air machine?) is pretty amazing. There are a bunch of J52-powered A-4s yanking and banking after all these years. Long live the Scooter!


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HuggyU2 said:
I got a couple TA-4J backseat BFM rides at Meridian in '94.

Really interesting how the TA-4J and the T-38 were aimed at somewhat the same pilot training goals... and were such amazingly different designs.

And... holy shit... that's a small cockpit!
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Not to mention the approach in instruments between the two. The T-38 sported an integrated electro-mechanical flight director and HSI in a very clean layout. Whilst the TA-4J used the spherical ADI with slaved heading information, the traditional bearing-distance-heading indicator and the “toilet bowl” CDI.
 
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