A real Naval Aviation Question about A-4s

"Shanghai McCoy" wrote in message
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wrote:
I have been trying to find out how many hump=backed A-4Es there were?
So far with no results. Any one have an idea. If you check the books
about the A-4 there is a complete absence of info about how many A-4Es
were fitted with the Avionics hump. Being and old AK, at one time, I
would have thought that such information would have been in the A-4E
IPB. Does anyone know? Walt


I never worked on A-4s, but IIRC, the Avionics hump (plus other mods, of
course) was the A-4M. Cheers!

Incorrect. Some/most A-4E's (and all might have eventually been
retrofitted), All A-4F and subsequent. It was easily removed and that was
frequently done to reduce weight and drag for adversary work, Blue Angels,
etc.

R / John

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:28:13 -0500, "John Carrier"
wrote:

Incorrect. Some/most A-4E's (and all might have eventually been
retrofitted), All A-4F and subsequent.

The avionic mod made it to quite a few A-4's. Even the "Air Barrons"
(VA-204?) had humps. Pretty sure they were flying A-4L's (C's upgraded
to E standards for the reserve squadrons). I have a picture of one
around somewhere that I took when they did a show at Daytona Beach
while I was attending ERAU. That was 72 or 73.

For those that don't recall, the "Air Barrons" were the reserve
equivalent of the Blue Angels back in the 60's and early 70's. Beleive
they were disbanded around 74 or 75. Did a pretty good show.

John Alger USN(ret)
1972-1997 // 1310,1320
TA-4J, A-7E, EC-130Q, P-3B