DOUGLAS A4 SKYHAWK LIGHT ATTACK AIRCRAFT SALES FILM 80624

This Vietnam era sales film for the McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk shows the versatile aircraft’s development and unique characteristics. The late model A-4F is seen. This was a refinement of A-4E with extra avionics housed in a hump on the fuselage spine (this feature later retrofitted to A-4Es and some A-4Cs) and more powerful J52-P-8A engine with 9,300 lbf (41 kN) of thrust, later upgraded in service to J52-P-408 with 11,200 lbf (50 kN), 147 built. Some served with Blue Angels acrobatic team from 1973 t