Talk:McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk

Trainers never embarked on carrier
Not sure if its worth adding into the article, but according to Hall's HMAS Melbourne (p. 82), the RAN never embarked the TA-4Gs aboard Melbourne because they weren't worth the risk of possibly damaging or destroying them during training landings. -- saberwyn 08:54, 13 February 2014 (UTC)


 * That's already covered in the fourth para of the Acquisition section :) Does the book say anything about them performing touch-and-go landings or similar? Nick-D (talk) 09:45, 13 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Doesn't outright state either way, but the impression I get is that they kept the trainers as far away from the carrier as possible. Here's the relevant half-paragraph: For in spite of the hundreds of hours training they have been through to reach this moment there is nothing which even remotely simulates the experience of landing and taking off from the real carrier. In the modern Skyhawks, which are single-seater jets, the pilots are entirely on their own and the first time is for real. The RAN has a pair of two-seater Skyhawks which it uses for training, but they don't want to lose or crash them and so they are never taken on board. -- saberwyn 12:34, 13 February 2014 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks for that. I think that 724 Squadron usually (always?) had some single-seaters on hand for deck landing training. Nick-D (talk) 09:37, 14 February 2014 (UTC)


 * IIRC the t-birds lacked the bridle attachment hook to enable tge to be used on the catapult. Secondly their utility in the training role even for touch and go evolutions would be very limited as the pilot's position was quite different in the trainer being further forward thus changing the geometry to the point that it would offer little advantage any way.   Before going to the ship pilots spent many hours on the practice deck painted on the runway at NAS Nowra. - Nick Thorne  talk  10:18, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

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675mph at sea level?
That seems way too far for a subsonic jet at low altitude. That's slightly over Mach 1 at sea level for a jet that can't break the sound barrier at higher altitude? That seems very unlikely to me. Idumea47b (talk) 01:39, 24 December 2023 (UTC)