The Douglas Aircraft Company (now owned by Boeing) answered the Navy’s call by building the A-4 Skyhawk. Ed Heinemann, the lead designer for the A-4 Skyhawk, encapsulated the Skyhawk’s ethos ...
The Skyhawk also saw action in other global conflicts including the Yom Kippur War and the Falklands War. Today, nearly seven decades after the aircraft took its first flight in 1954, some A-4 ...