DOUGLAS A4 SKYHAWK LIGHT ATTACK AIRCRAFT SALES FILM 80624

This Vietnam era sales film for the McDonnell Douglas A4 Skyhawk shows the versatile aircraft s development and unique characteristics. The late model A4F is seen. This was a refinement of A4E with extra avionics housed in a hump on the fuselage spine (this feature later retrofitted to A4Es and some A4Cs) and more powerful J52P8A engine with 9, 300 lbf (41 kN) of thrust, later upgraded in service to J52P408 with 11, 200 lbf (50 kN), 147 built. Some served with Blue Angels acrobatic team from 1973 t br, br,