Top Aces will add four Douglas A-4 Skyhawks to its adversary air fleet in Canada The CF-18 is the Canadian designation for the F/A-18A/B Hornet strike fighter, which the RCAF currently operates as ...

Skyhawk, a small and lightweight attack aircraft nicknamed the "Tinker Toy," was a surprisingly lethal workhorse for the U.S. Navy, particularly during the Vietnam War. -Designed to be simple and ...

The A-4 Skyhawk Soars Into History. For starters, the A-4 was the first aircraft to drop ordnance in the Vietnam War. This occurred on 5 August 1964, during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident when U.S ...

Speed-wise, the Skyhawk was very quick in the car. Often dubbed Heinemann’s Hot Rod after the airframe’s lead designer, the A-4 set a world record of more than 695 miles per hour in the mid-1950s.