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.

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.

I was very proud to have worn a Skyhawk jersey as a boy on the A.Y.S.O. soccer team.Go Skyhawks!

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.

Was a plane captain on the A4E with VA-106 Gladiators on the Intrepid Westpac, great plane.

Skyhawks Forever!

I flew the TA-4J in Navy Flight School, at Beeville.

Cool vid... we flew Skyhawks with our RNZAF..thanks from NZ 🇳🇿👍

Memories!!!

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.

Absolutely awesome!!!

Some great footage....gotta LOVE that Scooter roll rate \m/, LOVE that carrier break, I was saying out loud, POWER....YANK HARDER!

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...…..

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.

Yo reconozco qué los americanos son fuertes en la avitacion

COMPLETELY 100 PERCENT BADD ASS. THANKS FOR THE ALPHA FOUR FOOTAGE.

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?

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.

The A-4 still has just about the fastest roll rate of any fighter. Not bad for a 1950's design.

I have over 2000 hours in a-4's.. great aircraft. kinda of like a corvette in the sky..

Awesome plane , Still flying here in Germany , used as an "Opposing force" Target plane for Nato - Luftwaffe training . Salute !!

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.

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.

seems to be happy!

65 now!

good

NEC code 8356 A-4 powerplants and related systems.

Awesome video. The last landing the lift dump spoilers were not deployed or did I just see it wrong.

No spoilers on early models....A - E. Foxtrots , Mikes and Limas had Spoilers and Nose Wheel Steering. So did TA4s.

Could the pilot possibly be Don Glittenburg? The A4 must be the ultimate "Boredom Fighter"! Ian

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

5:01 mark...Get out of the way! Comin through! :-)

@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.