Key Point: The A-4 exemplified virtues of simplicity and cost-efficiency that have seemingly been forgotten in modern warplane design. Modern jet fighters continue to grow ever more complicated and ...

Area dignitaries and fairgrounds representatives joined former Marine pilot Kevin Donahue in breaking ground Thursday on the future home of an A-4 Skyhawk jet outside the Heroes Hall veterans museum ...

Coming soon to a fairground near you? Photo by the author It looks like those who enjoy gazing up at the old Marine Corps A-4M Skyhawk attack jet that’s on display in the Orange County Civic Center ...

The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters ...

Its final journey was made on a flatbed truck rather than in the sky, but it’s still fair to say the retired fighter plane coasted to its new place of honor at the Orange County fairgrounds – outside ...

Cars are cool, and so is owning a nice home, and holding on to both kidneys while we’re at it, but if you want the ultimate thrill, then you don’t have to design and build your very own rollercoaster, ...

Modern jet fighters continue to grow ever more complicated and more fantastically expensive. But some of the most influential aircraft in history succeeded instead because they could do their job ...

The Brazilian Navy was operating two modernised Skyhawks by the end of May 2018. An AF-1B single-seat variant is shown here. (Embraer) The Brazilian Navy is in the process of receiving its seventh and ...

One of the greatest aircraft compromises — in a good way — in history is Cessna’s franchise model, the 172 Skyhawk. The iconic Kansas-based airplane maker has turned out more than 40,000 of the ...

An official says a veteran pilot had just completed an exercise with a military weapons school at an Air Force base near Las Vegas when he ejected as the plane went down. The pilot had just finished a ...