Product introduction:
The A-4 Skyhawk was designed by Douglas in response to a U.S. Navy call for a jet-powered attack aircraft to replace the older A-1 Skyraider. Douglas opted for a design that would minimize its size, weight, and complexity. The result was an aircraft that weighed only half of the Navy's weight specification. It had a wing so compact that it did not need to be folded for carrier stowage.
A-4F refinement of A-4E with extra avionics housed in a hump on the fuselage spine (this feature later retrofitted to A-4Es and some A-4Cs) and more powerful J52-P-8A engine with 9,300 lbf (41 kN) of thrust, later upgraded in service to J52-P-408 with 11,200 lbf (50 kN), 147 built. Some served with Blue Angels acrobatic team from 1973 to 1986.
- Item No: 02267
- Bar Code: 9580208022673
- Scale: 1:32
- Item Type: Static Kit
- Model Brief - Length: 411 mm; Wingspan: 261 mm
- Total Parts: 530+pcs
- Metal Parts: main undercarriage
- Photo Etched Parts: 1piece
- Film Parts: n/a
- Resin Parts: n/a
- Total Sprues: 19 sprues and tires
- Paint Schemes: US Navy
- Released Date: 2011-07
- More Features:
- Fuselage
- Left and right fuselage molded w/ authentic details
- Engine
- Finely detailed engine.
- Interior
- Finely detailed gear cabin
- Finely detailed cockpit
- Wings
- Newly tooled wings accurately represent real ones
- Optional position flaps
- plenty of external loads
- Undercarriage
- Optional plastic or metal undercarriage
- PE
- Photo-etched parts for safety belt, interior details