An A4 Skyhawk out of KIWA takes off in the early morning for a brief flight. Includes a 4G bank, barrel roll and landing, nothing fancy. Song is Final Frontier by Thomas Bergersen.
The A-4 was truly the best bargain in the history of military aviation. Proud to have been given the opportunity to serve with the E and F models during my USN years.
Especially when you consider "project kahu" it was when the RNZAF upgraded their Skyhawks to be a fairly competitive 3rd gen fighter. 140 Million nz or about 85 million usd for 22 of them
My father (recently deceased) flew over 194 combat missions in A4 Skyhawks during Vietnam. It is a great plane. No wonder the Navy flew them over 20+ years
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rbagel55 you can be like your father and fly the a4 in DCS :) you just need a PC since the flight sim and the A4 is free
@@fritzkeller5629 Yeah I know. The Skyhawk is a well made bird and many of them are still airworthy. I couldn't afford it though, nor could I afford the jet fuel. Maybe I might get an ultralight!
Would have been nice to have that avionics package back when I was training in the Scooter. :) What a great flying plane. Just like driving a sports car. So smooth and responsive. Loved coming in to Pensacola on the visual for the brake. YeeHaw!
Great Video!!! I really like the view. Being able to see your hands on the controls is great!! I love the part where your pulling to many G's for the camera mount lol.
Great vids! I was fortunate enough to get about 45 hours in the Scooter in Beeville back in the early 90s. Wasn't a pilot - just a lucky enlisted guy who hitched a lot of rides and got a bunch of stick time. Best roll rate of anything I've flown!
AMH2 in Kingsville, Tx (VT-22) from 1969 - 1973. Caught many rides in the back seat of a scooter including maintenance test hops, local training flights when the instructor was flying solo and cross-country hops around the US. That was over 50 years and I still dream about flying the mighty TA4J. 🇺🇸
Great video! I was lucky to see the Blue Angels fly A-4's at Confederate Air Fore airshow in Harlingen, TX.. 1976 I think. Great plane, always looked like it fit a pilot like a glove.
Los A4 se destacaron en la guerra de Malvinas hundiendo varios buques britanicos, los pilotos argentinos volaban al ras del agua bajo el nivel de las cubiertas de los buques
Don't remember the A4 Cockpit looking like this. Of course, the last time I was inside an an A4 Cockpit was in Viet Nam in 1965 so I'm sure there were some changes made. Hey, why don't you check out the VMA 225 You Tune Channel, when you get a chance. Lots of Video's and Slide Shows of A4's at Cherry Point, West Pac and Viet Nam ( 1963-1965 ).
+anonymus99 boss Negative, I'm Argentinian an the A-4AR is very diferent cockpit, this is obviously a civil version, probably private collection. I put Here a link to a picture of A-4AR cockpit. www.gacetaeronautica.com/articulos/2011/09a4ar/cockpit1.jpg
Surprised more people don’t buy these. There are a ton with low hours.!Stored almost complete . This cockpit is incredible. That is BIG $$ in avionics. If I won powerball for 500 million. I would spend the 5-million for a two seater
Which A-4 is this? While in the Navy, I worked on the TA-4J, A-4L, A-4E, and A-4F. The latter being the "Super Fox" with the P-408 engine. That was with VFC-13. Two of the squadron birds were former Blue Angels. They could accelerate going vertical! And at full military power inside the "hush house" at Miramar...WOW!!!!
This is one of the coolest flight videos iv seen. Good stuff! Thank you! Question Fly Guy Toph are you the pilot? or just snagged this video from somewhere else?
Thats awesome! My dad flew in the EA-6B and plenty of other jets in the Navy back in the day (also he says hes flown in a A-4 before too) but it was before gopro and all this recording stuff really. Keep it coming. Is this a privately owned aircraft or is this a military video somewhere? sorry for ignorance if so. These vids always make me get back into my flight sim in DCS.
Fly Guy Toph In the early 1980s I was an avionics technician on A-4 Super Fox (F models). I think I could still take one apart in my sleep. It is a great simple machine. With the smart munitions of today and updated avionics this inexpensive design would be perfect for our troubles in the middle east. No need for 200 million dollar stealth jets. Best Blue Angles shows were flown in the Skyhawk.
Nice glass panel. Looks like a Garmin GTN-750 com/nav/GPS on the right and maybe a Garmin G600 EFIS on the left with the MFD on the left half of the display and PFD on the right half (normally the other way around). Actually after a second look I'm not 100% sure the EFIS is Garmin. (I'm an avionics technician by trade).
I'm pretty sure the pilot appreciates the great mechanics who work on that great plane. The Ejection-seat, can it be activated in a emergency, or is it deactivated?
What variant of the Skyhawk is this? Also I noticed the attitude indicator portion of the PFD seemed to have a terrain mapping feature, is that information from GPS or fed from an onboard radar?
Hell, even cars come with HUDs now, it's just more SA to boost the one provided with the MFDs showing all that mind blowing terrain map stuff (when these things were first born, the best map thingy available was basically a sheet of paper moved around by a plotter as to provide a idea about where the plane was, according to signals fed by various attitude and airspeed sensors).
The A-4 and F-5 would have made a great air to ground and air to air team. Too bad Northrop and Grumman didn't collaborate to produce a carrier capable variant of the F-5 instead of the larger, more expensive F/A-18.
518 correct? Who's piloting? Talk of the streets says Buick knows how to rip Scooter around the pattern like they should be! Lol. Im just jealous. Worked on this bird, and A4Q "606" and and never got that ride i was Always promised!
+Fly Guy Toph I don't think they were that tough to work on. A crew of three guys (yes, all men back in the day) could pull the tail and motor in about an hour or so. Simple design..single non after burning engine, no radar, TACAN as the primary Nav aid. One radio that worked most of the time. I worked on them as an Avionics Tec and had a low and hi power turn qualification on them. Still can remember the start sequence like it was yesterday. Five or six guys could move them around by hand using a "tilly bar".
STATIONED ON FORRESTAL 1989,SHE CARRIED F14S S3 VIKINGS E6B PROWLERS A6 INTRUDERS no F-18 yet how ever Eltoro air base had a few A-4 SCOOTERS an F-4s phantuims an the new F-18 hornets still in the testing phase.
@@synthwavecat96 I seen that also. I was in the Gulf 1965, USS Bonhomme Richard, VA-192, A-4C's never had a door gunner, LOL. Had lots of bombs and 2 20MM guns in the wings. This plane could fire everything in the inventory. Great Plane (Scooter). While in the Gulf we had one of our A-4's come back with a hole in the wing big enough for two men to stand in, hit with a SAM. Very lucky Pilot. Their is a you tube video of it.
The music is completely unnecessary and takes away rather than adds to the video. Nobody plays "A-4 cockpit" video for the music. For us, the sound of the engine is better than any music.
Just think all this people in them homes you fly over in case of a cockpit fire that you won't be able to steer away from them because your hands are burning . You can always cut the tip of the glove of the finger you use to handle those garmin screens. my 2c
The A-4 was truly the best bargain in the history of military aviation. Proud to have been given the opportunity to serve with the E and F models during my USN years.
Dragon Meddler ditto
Especially when you consider "project kahu" it was when the RNZAF upgraded their Skyhawks to be a fairly competitive 3rd gen fighter. 140 Million nz or about 85 million usd for 22 of them
My father (recently deceased) flew over 194 combat missions in A4 Skyhawks during Vietnam. It is a great plane.
No wonder the Navy flew them over 20+ years
rbagel55 you can be like your father and fly the a4 in DCS :) you just need a PC since the flight sim and the A4 is free
@ I already did that with an older version of Flight Sim. It's my favorite plane.
Flew in the back seat in training command. My favorite plane too!
@@rbagel55 This is late but, you can buy these planes, with a hefty price of course, but it is possible.
@@fritzkeller5629 Yeah I know. The Skyhawk is a well made bird and many of them are still airworthy. I couldn't afford it though, nor could I afford the jet fuel. Maybe I might get an ultralight!
I'm impressed with the new cockpit on a A-4 skyhawk
yeah , it's pretty good how they modernised it .
Put the F-5 to shame
Worked on the A4 from 1964 to 1978 at the Palmdale CA facility . Very proud of the great of the Skyhawk
Wonderful visibility for the pilot.
Lovely looking and extremely capable aircraft.
One of my favorite planes of the era…Envious! 🇺🇸👊🏻
Excelente , imperturbable, poderoso., suave como flotar en el viento.Puedo decir que sentí el placer de volar un Skyhawk.
Hermoso... aplausos !!
La configuración nueva queda muy bien, y el eximio piloto hace que todo se vea más fácil.
Saludos desde Argentina.
Would have been nice to have that avionics package back when I was training in the Scooter. :) What a great flying plane. Just like driving a sports car. So smooth and responsive. Loved coming in to Pensacola on the visual for the brake. YeeHaw!
Dude's on the tutorial mission of a new Ace Combat
Need this version of the Skyhawk for DCS
+Iffy350 How about E variant? ;)
A-4K has nice screens mostly from F-16.
Great Video!!! I really like the view. Being able to see your hands on the controls is great!! I love the part where your pulling to many G's for the camera mount lol.
Yeah you can tell he has flown that A4 in the past. A-4 is a such a versatile airframe and yet the payload it carries is devastating.
Great seeing an A4 with a glass cockpit. Far cry from the A4E's I worked on during my stint with VMA211 in ChuLai in 1967/68.
What an awesome video! I feel like I'm actually in the cockpit...!
Great vids! I was fortunate enough to get about 45 hours in the Scooter in Beeville back in the early 90s. Wasn't a pilot - just a lucky enlisted guy who hitched a lot of rides and got a bunch of stick time. Best roll rate of anything I've flown!
Tim Purcell I tried doing the same as an enlisted in the ANG with the F-16's. That was a no-go, but I was always asking.
Fly Guy Toph o.o
AMH2 in Kingsville, Tx (VT-22) from 1969 - 1973. Caught many rides in the back seat of a scooter including maintenance test hops, local training flights when the instructor was flying solo and cross-country hops around the US.
That was over 50 years and I still dream about flying the mighty TA4J. 🇺🇸
fantastic video , great to see the stick response , thanks for sharing
+Andy Peterson Glad you liked it!
Great video Chris!
Great video! I was lucky to see the Blue Angels fly A-4's at Confederate Air Fore airshow in Harlingen, TX.. 1976 I think. Great plane, always looked like it fit a pilot like a glove.
James Manky it did fit like a glove. Basically strapped the A4 to you. Not you getting into the aircraft. Sweet responsive handling aircraft
Very nice music and video clip, thanks
Looks like the coolest private pilot.
Hermoso Video, es Lindo Imaginarse estar ahi
An A4 with a glass cockpit performs a magnificent dawn flight and you call it "nothing fancy" ?! Very few things are fancier than that!
Thanks for not letting your bad taste in music override the hum of the engine. Nice vid.
HOLY SHIT!!! Keep your hands on the wheel while I'm flying with you General !!!
Cool vid... we used to operate them with our RNZAF 👍🇳🇿✈️
Very nice video. Thank you!
Los A4 se destacaron en la guerra de Malvinas hundiendo varios buques britanicos, los pilotos argentinos volaban al ras del agua bajo el nivel de las cubiertas de los buques
beautiful video !
Thanks
Where were those instruments when I was flyin’ scooters in VT-21 (1971-72) ? Buzzard😊
The cockpits on those A-4's are so tall and narrow all glass must be great visibility.
Nice update!
A4 with a glass cockpit. Neat. If I find a spitfire,B-17 or a P-51 with a glass cockpit next I’ll LOL. 😂
Don't remember the A4 Cockpit looking like this. Of course, the last time I was inside an an A4 Cockpit was in Viet Nam in 1965 so I'm sure there were some changes made. Hey, why don't you check out the VMA 225 You Tune Channel, when you get a chance. Lots of Video's and Slide Shows of A4's at Cherry Point, West Pac and Viet Nam ( 1963-1965 ).
I think this is a civilian version mate, a handful of these civy version have been upgraded with garmin glass cockpit.
+Raditram not likely with those wings of gold on the pilots chest and the standard issue birth control glasses.
+Raditram or this could be an argentine air force a4ar fighting hawk , an upgraded a4 with f16 avionics and electronics and multirole capabilities
+anonymus99 boss Negative, I'm Argentinian an the A-4AR is very diferent cockpit, this is obviously a civil version, probably private collection. I put Here a link to a picture of A-4AR cockpit.
www.gacetaeronautica.com/articulos/2011/09a4ar/cockpit1.jpg
have you ever been with John MCcain in Vietnam? Did you meet him there? Could you tell a brief about him?
Muy bueno, gracias!!!!!
wonderful!bravo
muy buena musica acompaña la tranquilidad del vuelo muy asertivo.
Oh so DCS really just said "Ight lets take the OLD A4 not this COOL ASS A4 and make it a mod." Thanks DCS!
What shop BW Neuberger. What made it pain was there wasn't a lot room working on the engine in the engine bay.
Surprised more people don’t buy these. There are a ton with low hours.!Stored almost complete . This cockpit is incredible. That is BIG $$ in avionics. If I won powerball for 500 million. I would spend the 5-million for a two seater
Great plane so nimble
clearly an awesome airframe as those screens were not in the ones they used to run of the HMAS melbounre.
Which A-4 is this? While in the Navy, I worked on the TA-4J, A-4L, A-4E, and A-4F. The latter being the "Super Fox" with the P-408 engine. That was with VFC-13. Two of the squadron birds were former Blue Angels. They could accelerate going vertical! And at full military power inside the "hush house" at Miramar...WOW!!!!
This is one of the coolest flight videos iv seen. Good stuff! Thank you!
Question Fly Guy Toph are you the pilot? or just snagged this video from somewhere else?
My dad is the pilot. I've got tons of go pro footage from him. I'm only a piston twin pilot myself.
Thats awesome! My dad flew in the EA-6B and plenty of other jets in the Navy back in the day (also he says hes flown in a A-4 before too) but it was before gopro and all this recording stuff really. Keep it coming. Is this a privately owned aircraft or is this a military video somewhere? sorry for ignorance if so. These vids always make me get back into my flight sim in DCS.
how loud is inside the cockpit of a4?need earprugs?
Love the updated avionics.
B W Neuberger A hand full of these have been updated with G500's.
Fly Guy Toph In the early 1980s I was an avionics technician on A-4 Super Fox (F models). I think I could still take one apart in my sleep. It is a great simple machine. With the smart munitions of today and updated avionics this inexpensive design would be perfect for our troubles in the middle east. No need for 200 million dollar stealth jets. Best Blue Angles shows were flown in the Skyhawk.
It was called a hotrod for a reason. Simplicity is a great thing.
Nice glass panel. Looks like a Garmin GTN-750 com/nav/GPS on the right and maybe a Garmin G600 EFIS on the left with the MFD on the left half of the display and PFD on the right half (normally the other way around). Actually after a second look I'm not 100% sure the EFIS is Garmin. (I'm an avionics technician by trade).
Closer look, it's a Garmin G600 helicopter version EFIS, MFD on the left, PFD on the right.
Just in case anyone was curious...
What are the things protruding from the dash?
KIWA ??? What model is it ? Which company ?
what type of skyhawk? a privately owned? and also, why left the HUD?
Como olvidar ah los A4 SKIHAWK en malvinas en esos tiempos del 82
What is the purpose of the metal framing of the upper part of the instrument panel?
SanFranciscoBay I guess that its function is supporting the HUD
I didn't know A-4's had glass. Retrofit?
sbentjies definitely.
How much is a ride ?? thank you.
Awesome
IT MAKES THE SAME ROAR AS AN MD-80
Are this planes still in use? 😲Nice to see those majestic planes still in the air 😀
I'm pretty sure the pilot appreciates the great mechanics who work on that great plane. The Ejection-seat, can it be activated in a emergency, or is it deactivated?
My understanding they stay activated.
nice! i didnt fly on a military plane yet, just 5 years left...
Best fly!
Is it a private jet ?
What variant of the Skyhawk is this? Also I noticed the attitude indicator portion of the PFD seemed to have a terrain mapping feature, is that information from GPS or fed from an onboard radar?
It could be a new Zealand A4K which was a normal Skyhawk with f16 radar and pretty advanced computer for when the built them
Where were those instruments when I was flyin’ scooters in VT-21 (1971-72) ? Buzzard
What A4 version is this? The NZ A4k was basically an F16 crammed into an A4 airframe, is this similar?
What is he manipulating with his thumb on the stick?
Trim controls to help the aircraft fly straight without having to move the stick
Glass cockpit A4. 👍
Do you own this plane?
How tall can you be and still fit in that cockpit?
The pilot is 74 inches. I'm not sure what the max height is however.
With most of these I would rather listen to the machine then overdone music. Cool video.. better minus the music.
Nice music
I thought this tune brought something to the vid.
is this the A-4N?
A4 de Brasil?
WHAT ! JUST A 4G BANK AND A BARREL ROLL ? THAT WEAPON PLATFORM WAS MADE TO DELIVER A TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPON . WHILE BARN STORMING
Not to necessarily return unfortunately. A least that's the feeling the pilot had.
AHHHHH.....LOVE THIS!!! ....LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS!!!
What? No more AJB3 failure?
Great cockpit setup, all thats missing is a HUD.
It'd the civilian version, I assume. No need for weapons systems in a civilian plane.
BioActiveScout 629 its already have HUD.
Many newer civilian planes are outfitted with HUDs. They are more of a nav tool than a tool strictly for weapons systems.
Hell, even cars come with HUDs now, it's just more SA to boost the one provided with the MFDs showing all that mind blowing terrain map stuff (when these things were first born, the best map thingy available was basically a sheet of paper moved around by a plotter as to provide a idea about where the plane was, according to signals fed by various attitude and airspeed sensors).
Who's A4 is it!
my cousin was a door gunner on a a4...he was shot down over Điện Biên Phủ in 1975
The A-4 and F-5 would have made a great air to ground and air to air team. Too bad Northrop and Grumman didn't collaborate to produce a carrier capable variant of the F-5 instead of the larger, more expensive F/A-18.
518 correct? Who's piloting? Talk of the streets says Buick knows how to rip Scooter around the pattern like they should be! Lol.
Im just jealous. Worked on this bird, and A4Q "606" and and never got that ride i was Always promised!
Love the Skyhawk and great video, is this a TA-4J or A-4N?
***** I believe it's an N. Did you fly them or work on them at some point?
Fly Guy Toph Hi, nope just a big fan! I take pictures of the Discovery Air 'N's though.
Chris Melaisi A4 AR fightinghawk. Its a modernized A4-M
@@alanmaximilianog is not A-4AR , this on the video have much more advace avionic in the cockpit
@@fabiob6521 i didnt say that. i said that A4AR is a modernized A4M.. bro.
My grandpa flew the skyhawk!
Great plane, however they are a pain in the ass to work on. Mag 42 Flying Gators, NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville Fla. 1980-1983. Engine Mech.
What made them such a pain to work on?
+Brian Stewart They had a couple in Millington Tenn in 1992 A school. Got that right!.
+Brian Stewart
I was right there with you buddy. VMA-142 Flying Gators from 81-84.
+Fly Guy Toph
I don't think they were that tough to work on. A crew of three guys (yes, all men back in the day) could pull the tail and motor in about an hour or so. Simple design..single non after burning engine, no radar, TACAN as the primary Nav aid. One radio that worked most of the time. I worked on them as an Avionics Tec and had a low and hi power turn qualification on them. Still can remember the start sequence like it was yesterday. Five or six guys could move them around by hand using a "tilly bar".
+Ray “Dutchy” Brauer sounds good to me
STATIONED ON FORRESTAL 1989,SHE CARRIED F14S S3 VIKINGS E6B PROWLERS A6 INTRUDERS no F-18 yet how ever Eltoro air base had a few A-4 SCOOTERS an F-4s phantuims an the new F-18 hornets still in the testing phase.
ถ้าเป็นรุ่นปรับปรุงดีกว่า f16 อีกสามารถเติมน้ำมันอากาศจากท่อเติมได้ เป็นความคิดที่ผิดมากเรื่องโครงการ f16 มันเป็นเรื่องยุ่งยากทางวิศวกรรมที่ยูเครนจะนำมาใช้ได้
A glass panel in an A4 man that's just not right
i was a door gunner on an A4 in the gulf war...i now work at wal mart.
Tell me you're trolling
@@synthwavecat96 I seen that also. I was in the Gulf 1965, USS Bonhomme Richard, VA-192, A-4C's never had a door gunner, LOL. Had lots of bombs and 2 20MM guns in the wings. This plane could fire everything in the inventory. Great Plane (Scooter). While in the Gulf we had one of our A-4's come back with a hole in the wing big enough for two men to stand in, hit with a SAM. Very lucky Pilot. Their is a you tube video of it.
Gulf of Tonkin, North Veitnam.
YOU CAN BE MY WINGMAN ANYDAY
Bullshi....you can be mine!
Fly Guy Toph
no way am i sittin back while you have all the fun
Agreed
i think that upgrading a4
thanks
Thinking about buying one of these fuckers
Looks like Gateway.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
How do I get signed off on that awesome bird? Heck even a PIC entry in my Log Book saying A4M would be enough.
Professional fighter pilots wear flame retardant gloves and always keep their visor down for safety.
Alrighty than carl...
The music is completely unnecessary and takes away rather than adds to the video. Nobody plays "A-4 cockpit" video for the music. For us, the sound of the engine is better than any music.
Exporting A4 Skyhawks to Ukraine would be great.
all of us here are Argentines, Americans or War Thunder players lol
Just can't NOT add music can we?
would have been great without the music.
no gloves
Those garmin screens do not like gloved fingers.
Just think all this people in them homes you fly over in case of a cockpit fire that you won't be able to steer away from them because your hands are burning . You can always cut the tip of the glove of the finger you use to handle those garmin screens. my 2c
we thank you for that great video anyway. you take care
Fly Guy Toph 99% sure there are Navy flight gloves that are at least partially fingerless
His son is wearing them riding his Huffy ." And me , I'm riding in my Taxi , taking tips and getting stoned."
ผมชอบพูดจริงเลยนะมันบินต่ำความเร็วต่ำการควบคุมก็ยังติดมือ
Great video. Lose the music.
Jets are so much easier to fly than say a cessna 172..