Man, it's awesome to see A-4s still being flown. They have excellent maneuverability, and even though they are a subsonic platform, they're still pretty fast.

I was a sailor and my first post was an A 4 training squadron in CA in 1970. Got to ride in the back seat of the T A 4 lots of times. I love that little plane.

Love to see the Scooters fly !! Took note of Prestwick, where my dad did a gas & go with his B-24 in 1944 on the way to combat.

I was an engine mechanic on the P&W J-52 used in the A-4 and A-6 from 1969 to 1972. The A-4 was so easy to work on! Two mechs could pull the engine in about 45 minutes and reinstall it in about the same time. The bad part was servicing the forward "Hell Holes" where the accessory drives were when the engine was running. It was beyond loud and, yes, my ears still ring to this day. These two aircraft look very different, most notably the tail pipe and the speed brakes. Still a gorgeous plane and hard to believe the design has been in service for over 65 years. Semper Fi!

Two beautifully presented aircraft. Great to see these birds put to good use. Still have great memories of popping over to Ohakea from Palmerston North for the A4 Arrival Open Day. I had regular on-base liaison with the Photographic Unit at Ohakea over the years and my ears are still ringing from tinnitus caused by those screeching high speed low passes along the runway just to let the Base Personnel know they were kings of the sky.

Beautiful birds, loved by everybody. Good to see these A4s in such amazing shape

The Aviators in my squadron loved flying the scooter back in the early 90s.

Rare and great to see the quality of care on them.

Awesome to See Scooters Again! My Dad Worked on them at El Toro while Stationed there in the 70's. Got to do a Walk Around when ALL 7 Blue Angels were Lined up on the Tarmac. Fat Albert Too! Have Pics of that Day. :)

Worked on the M model in the marines back in 82......love this bird

Glad to see these scooters being used!

This was my favorite Blue Angels jet...

There was a squadron of A4's at MCAS Cherry Point NC while I was stationed there, my favorite plane.

Great vid. Heinemann's Hot Rod will always be one of my favorites !

Idk how this ended up on my recommended. But im glad it did. Beautiful aircraft for their age.

Hey, my dad flies these jets! He works for Draken! This is really cool!

That sound never ended. It sounds as good as mom & Dad back frm deployment.

Great vid. Nicely done! Thanks for sharing.

I remember this aircraft, in my childhood i have lots stickers of this, which I collected under bread wrapper. The bread company use to attract customer by providing variety of stickers under there wrapper.

trés belle vidéo, j'adore les A4, ils ont une forme particulière

Hermoso avión , gracias por el video. Saludos desde Argentina

Fantastic shots mate! Very nice work :)

I remember going to Prestwick Airport in the 60's on a school outing and seeing a "huge" PAN-AM Boeing 707 right next to the boundary fence..... Oh how times have changed.

My parents were in the RNZAF and I used to hear lots of stories about these! How scary they were during navy ship defense exercises, as if almost popping out of nowhere.

1975 thru 1979 in VMA 223 loved those birds

Great video. Good to see the old A4's still flying although they do sound like a mini vulcan with the howl.

My dad use to see these old A4's down in GITMO Cuba every time he was deployed down there back in the 1980's, the Marine Corp had an A4 air wing permanently assigned there to protect the garrison. He has some great pictures from that little military Caribbean resort.

I've always loved the A4 Skyhawk because my late Uncle Bobby was a Marine fighter pilot and did two combat tours in Vietnam.

I remember watching Skyhawks in the circuit at Ohakea when on a trip to New Zealand, there used to be a branch of the RNZAF museum at the base with a cafe and viewing terrace. We were lucky on that day as there were 4 Skyhawks doing local training flights and circuits. The following year the then Prime Minister of NZ scrapped the fighter arm of the RNZAF and I believe gave most of the Skyhawks away!!

Very good catches mate! Very cool looking aircraft

Great catches mate!

Good show !! worked on the A-4 e model as a jet mech. I remember during a nite engine test run looking in the aft hellhole and seeing the back of the engine glow red that was cool.

This was the plane flown by late Senator John McCain over Vietnam when he was shut down and capture. Also was used by the Argentinian Air Force during the Falkland Islands war with Great Britain

Amazing footage man thinks so much for sharing such an Amazing airplane

Beatiful landnings in windy conditions!

Waving back pilot, so cool!

Great video, very nice shots mate. :-)

Its hard to believe when these babies 1st rolled out of the factory the price tag was only $860,000 each for the 1st 500 made

Amazing catches! Great video :)

Thank you from Vienna/Austria - great video!

Tinnitus compliments of Pratt & Whitney.

The colors of the planes were excellent! 🇧🇷

Heinemann's Hot Rod. And they were a fantastic attack aircraft. Very agile.

Worked on Marine A4C's 54 years ago in Viet Nam !!! Semper Fi, Baby !!!

Love this excellent video.....cheers

They are gorgeous flying birds

While serving in the 1974 Marine Corps I came across these Aircraft at Iwakuni Japan and MCAS El Toros California

same birds we have in Argentina from 60s to 80s.. them fought on 1982 in the South Atlantic conflict against British.... on the middle of 90s... Argentina's government had an agreement with usaf and u.s to rebuild and upgrade them... to change and use f16 sistems... now their name is A4 AR FIGHTINGHAWKS... thanks for the video....

A-4’s were used as adversary aircraft at the legendary fighter school TOP GUN. Their maneuverability, speed and small size made them perfect opponents for the phantoms, tomcats(RIP) , eagles 🦅 and hornets 🐝 aircraft. They are still in service with other countries airforces because they are simply friggin awesome 👏.

Very Nice! Beautiful!

All ex RNZAF A4s brought from the Australian Govt in the 70s, fitted with F16 avionics in the 90s and it appears they have been re engined as the old JT8s are obsolete now

Aeronautical Engineering Axiom - "If it looks Good, it is Good." Still applies to these ol' birds.

beautiful plane 😉👍

love those A-4s

Second lift was smoot and beautiful

Awesome that Jared Isaacman managed to go to space 'inspiration 4', On some of the profits he made with these aircraft. He bought 4 of them from the RNZAF to join his private air force of over 77 that Draken owns, including 30 Russian MiG-21 and a mint MiG-29UB fighter.

What an awesomely pretty little aircraft.

Love that Skyhawk

What does Scotrail82 mean by Draken? The only Draken I know of is a pretty good fourth generation Swedish jet fighter. It's cool watching carrier-based aircraft as they land. Navy planes are built with over-sized landing gear, to handle the rigors of carrier traps (touchdowns at about 700-800 feet-per-minute descent rate with the aid of a tail hook and arrestor cables) and cat shots (takeoffs wit the aid of steam- or electromagnetically-operated catapults. ) Traps are more of a controlled crash, really, with little if any discernible flare and full takeoff power maintained in the flare and touchdown until the tail hook securely If a cable beaks or the hook misses the cables the pilot has to "bolt", ir a rejected landing or go-around, hence the full power at touchdown . As aviation goes that's pretty extreme stuff, especially if its done at night in bad weather with poor visibility without the carrier's running lights illuminated to simulate actual wartime conditions where the ship would be more vulnerable if lit up. Naval aviators' eye balls tend to roll back into their eye sockets just thinking about night traps. They all hate them but recognize the necessity of acquiring and maintaining that skill. When that A-4's little delta wing stalls,it stalls sharply, unlike most light aircraft which tend to have docile stall characteristics. .A-4s were also well known for having an early form of hydraulically boosted controls, which gave the ground attack jet amazing roll rate at its subsonic speeds. In fact I read somewhere that A-4s had so much roll rate, around 900 degrees per second, that pilots were taught to never to use full stick deflection for fear of becoming visually disorientated. At low speeds and altitudes that could be a deadly mistake.

wonder if its the same two i sa2 today in tulsa oklahoma? they dont fly in the sates anymore. ... was an awesome and confusing sight.

This pair of A-4N Skyhawk are beautiful and awesome 😎🤩

Very nice!

Awesome... I miss them down under 👍🇳🇿

Amazing video, liked!

Is the extended tailpipe a hush kit?

muy buen video saludo desde la patagonia argentina👋👋

Always loved "Scooter," but had no idea it had such a quick acceleration! Question; is the exhaust extension from a new engine, or for noise suppression? Great video of a classic great plane!

Great little carrier plane in its time

Nz air force still has a few of these parked up for sale wrapped up in glad wrap . 14yrs they been on the market

Unless things have changed these two are still New Zealand government owned, Draken operated A4K's with their Kahu avionics update included.

I was in a U.S. Navy land based aviation squadron from 1971-75. We had 4-A-4 Skyhawks as well as 4-ERA-3B Skywarriors, 2-F-4 Phantoms, and a gorgeous EC-121 Super Constellation. They were all a lot of fun to be out on the ramp with as we launched & recovered and took care of them. I called the A-4 the mosquito 'cause that's what it reminded me of...LOL..!! The A-4's were/are very maneuverable and were used a lot in Top Gun exercises and in other exercises and could carry a lot of external stores. The A-4's that we had were hydraulic leakers and a mess to service but I was a Plane Captain for the ERA-3B's so I didn't have to do any servicing on them except refueling....lucky me..!!

First time i saw the Blue Angels imn 1978, they were flying A4s

OMG IMPRESSIVE!!! LIKED LIKED LIKED!

Very nice to see .

That sound🤗

Its a nice model fighter i wish i can fly in this jet, performing a roll in the high space

Handsome looking fighter jet

very nice vid. liked!!

I guess the brazilian navy still has about 20 of those operating at a base just outside Rio. Real fine lite bomber though its 30+ age.

Nice video!

i like this fighter jet.its body, shape and colour..i love it

They look awesome those A4s, especially with a sidewinder going up their jet pipe!!

Very Cool!

Long live the A4

Neat, neat airplane.

I don't see any arresting hooks ? Some where there's combat video of Argentine A-4's attacking the English anchorage in the Falklands. These aircraft are incredibly manoeurvable.In one clip, flying at wave top level good & fast an A-4 is trying to lose a small man portable antiair missile ! I never imagined a jet fighter-bomber could move as intensely as this Argentine pilot made his A-4 that day .Unfortunately the stinger like missile kept right up with him,move for move till ....... I salute those Argentine pilots who fought like lions in 2nd hand aircraft against far superior forces,they were good men.

USMC had them in Beaufort SC also....tall aircraft when your next to it.

Now mainly based in south of France. Nîmes Garons FNI/LFTW Work like contractor for French navy

They are the 2 A4N leased by French Company, SDTS, on their way to Nîmes.

It goes black prior to the break??

What are these two jets part of?

Still in use with the Brazilian Navy, and it's because we have no money for a modern naval fighter/bomber.

Wow good 👍

The Word "Draken" is Swedish and in English it´s Dragon

THEY ARE SIMILAR OF THE SEA HARRIER!! SHOW!!

Malvinas "Argentina "

To me the A4's are like the mini hi perf sports cars of Europe.

Are these pair Ex-Israeli? I only know of the Israeli one's having extended tail pipes.

2:30 The exhaust very familier, its Israelli modification !!!! Indonesia A - 4 Skyhawk also have the modification in the Exhaust because buy Ex Israel

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