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Aircraft and configuration
Virtavia's A-4 Skyhawk package includes clean, centre-tank, heavy and wing-tank configurations. Automatic leading-edge slats are documented. Wing spoilers are included only on later E and adversary versions.
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Virtavia · Read more ↗Meet Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Virtavia's A-4 Skyhawk package includes clean, centre-tank, heavy and wing-tank configurations. Automatic leading-edge slats are documented. Wing spoilers are included only on later E and adversary versions.
History & design
Keeping a carrier attack aircraft small
Ed Heinemann's Skyhawk was deliberately compact and light so that carriers could accommodate more aircraft. Douglas built 2,960 between 1954 and 1979. Its size did not confine it to one role: successive variants added revised engines, avionics and refuelling equipment, while two-seat versions supported training.
Skyhawks served in American carrier strikes over Vietnam and with several export customers. The Blue Angels used the type from 1974 to 1986. The basic outline spans many configurations, so engine, avionics hump and cockpit details must follow the selected A-4 variant.
Boeing · Select products in Boeing history ↗Systems & details
Slats, stores and variant identity
Virtavia's manual distinguishes the A-4E from the later F and export versions. Its model includes automatic leading-edge slats and selectable external-store configurations. The wing devices and the chosen stores configuration are separate aspects of the aircraft state; a clean aircraft and one carrying tanks should not be described as one fixed configuration. The developer manual is evidence for the rendition, rather than a source of measured force-feedback calibration.
Virtavia · Douglas A-4 Skyhawk — simulator documentation ↗In your simulator
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Manuals & resources
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Simulator documentation
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk — simulator documentationVirtavia · Skyhawk operating manual · pages 4–5Aircraft documentation
Select products in Boeing historyBoeing · Boeing, Select Products in Boeing History, p. 158 A-4 SkyhawkNational Naval Aviation Museum · Museum J52-powered Skyhawk specification; not every A-4 variant.Built-in force-feedback profiles
Read the documentary basis, editable starting settings and remaining questions for the aircraft you fly. Each explanation refers to the exact profile revision shown.
Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 2 profile choices
Virtavia A-4E Skyhawk
Virtavia · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020
The Skyhawk with automatic leading-edge slats and several stores configurations.
Virtavia A-4G Skyhawk
Virtavia · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020
The Skyhawk with automatic leading-edge slats and several stores configurations.
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