by Tommy H. Thomason

Monday, March 4, 2013

A4D (A-4) Skyhawk Collector

I've posted quite a bit on the Scooter, in addition to writing a book about its development and usage history, but it's sort of an Easter egg hunt to find it all. Herewith a summary (I may have missed a few;  to check for more, just type A4D, A-4, or Skyhawk into the search blog on the upper left hand corner of the page):

Width of fuselage and size of horizontal tail: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2016/08/a4d-skyhawk-one-more-time.html

New Airfix A4D kit notes: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-airfix-172-4b4p-modeling-notes.html

Also see http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47356

A4D Nose variations:

http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/11/airfix-172-a4d-2-overall-size-and-shape.html

http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/10/skyhawk-details.html

A4D external fuel tanks

http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/07/douglas-low-drag-external-fuel-tanks.html

http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2011/07/douglas-low-drag-external-fuel-tanks.html

A4D cockpit width: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/09/fitting-in.html

A4D configuration difference summary: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2010/07/a4d-skyhawk.html

A4D red "crush points": http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/10/painting-crush-points-red.html

A4D-1 vortex generators: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2011/01/a4d-1-vortex-generators.html

A4D-1 rudder: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/08/a4d-1-rudder-development.html

A4D-1/2 configuration development:

http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-you-going-to-believe-me-or-your_31.html

http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-dirty-underside-of-a4d.html

Mk 7 shape: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2009/11/nuclear-banshees.html

VA-72 A4D-2 picture: http://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2012/10/va-72-a4d-2-picture.html

A4D ladder and self-boarding: http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2011/09/self-boarding-for-douglas-skyhawk.html

Super Fox: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2011/02/super-fox.html

Scooter! additions and corrections: http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2011/11/scooter-stuff.html

A-4 nose gear steering: http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-4-nose-gear-steering.html

A-4F Laser Spot Tracker: http://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-4f-laser-spot-tracker.html

There are a few more posts with Skyhawk stuff in my U.S. Navy Aircraft History blog: http://thanlont.blogspot.com/. Just type A4D, A-4, or Skyhawk into the search blog on the upper left hand corner of the page.


2 comments:

  1. Hi Tommy, mi name is Javier, from Chile, South America. I have a question abouy the fuselage width of the different A-4s. There are all the same? Or depends of the different versions? Thanks a lot!

    Javier

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  2. Javier, see http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2016/08/a4d-skyhawk-one-more-time.html. The width of all the Skyhawk fuselages is the same except for the inlet differences between the J65 and J52-powered airplanes.

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