Skyhawks of Vietnam

Originalboxcar · **Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:04 am

Awesome shots of the a-4 in 'nam.

http://images.military.com/slideshows/s ... irforce.nl

regards,

t~

Michel C-GNCJ · **Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:03 am

Awesome indeed ! I really like the A-4...

Sokolove · **Joined:** Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:33 am **Posts:** 16

Picture 16 of the Skyhawk with the damaged tail is amazing. Looks like it might be streaming fuel as well.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:57 am

they didn't call it the scooter for nothing!!!! as for myself ........i like the hump backed version the best.

Sokolove · **Joined:** Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:33 am **Posts:** 16

When I was a kid my uncle flew Skyhawks for the Navy. We flew down to Pensacola to visit him and he got us out on the flight line to inspect the #7 bird for the Blue Angels. They had the canopy open and he got my brother and I both up in it. I climb up the ladder with my dad following and as I'm sitting there my dad say's ,"this is just like what your Uncle Joe flies." I was probably 8 years old at the time and up until I was probably 15 I mistakenly thought my uncle Joe was actually a Blue Angels pilot! Later my Uncle Joe was the guy that replaced Ollie North in the Pentagon. (Unless of course he just took his office and not his actual position which I would say is another possible mistake I could have made for the past 10 years.)

bipe215 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:37 pm

Budd Davisson has a new podcast on airbum.com and the flight journal website about his A-4 pirep. Its good stuff.

Steve G

Sokolove · **Joined:** Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:33 am **Posts:** 16

Yeah, that's the plane Bipe! That was pretty cool reading that. Brought back memories seeing the pictures. That whole PIREP website was pretty neat. I particularly enjoyed the write-up of his T-28 experience.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:12 pm

Sokolove wrote:

When I was a kid my uncle flew Skyhawks for the Navy. We flew down to Pensacola to visit him and he got us out on the flight line to inspect the #7 bird for the Blue Angels. They had the canopy open and he got my brother and I both up in it. I climb up the ladder with my dad following and as I'm sitting there my dad say's ,"this is just like what your Uncle Joe flies." I was probably 8 years old at the time and up until I was probably 15 I mistakenly thought my uncle Joe was actually a Blue Angels pilot! Later my Uncle Joe was the guy that replaced Ollie North in the Pentagon. (Unless of course he just took his office and not his actual position which I would say is another possible mistake I could have made for the past 10 years.)

if your uncle replaced ollie north, then i'd say he filled some pretty big shoes. it speaks well of your uncle!!! north was & is a great patriot, he just got caught in the media's spider web.

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