Douglas A-4 Skyhawk RAF Waddington 2000 | Airshow World

6.8K views · 87 reactions | The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is the world’s most widely produced aircraft with more than 44,000 units built. Join Matthew Burchette as he goes flying with a Metropolitan State University of Denver student over some of Denver’s most popular landmarks, learns about the desperate need for airline pilots and gets a soup to nuts look at the 172 Skyhawk in Independence, Kansas. | Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum | Facebook

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is the world’s most widely produced aircraft with more than 44,000 units built. | Spark

"Screaming off the deck of the Big E." High above the Gulf of Tonkin, the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk—nicknamed “Heinemann’s Hot Rod”—launches from the flight deck of the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Small, fast, and deadly, the A-4 was the Navy’s workhorse in the early years of the Vietnam War, flying thousands of sorties deep into hostile territory. Pilots flew low and fast through flak and missiles, delivering bombs on key targets from bridges to suppl