RNZAF A4 Skyhawk - One Of The Last Displays
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- The Royal New Zealand Air Force makes one of its last pubic displays of the A4 Skyhawk at the Classic Fighters 2001 airshow, just prior to the disbanding of the Air Force's fighter strike wing.
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i dropped out of high school and atc when they scrapped the skyhawks, the only thing i wanted to do was join the rnzaf and fly them.
thanks helen clark.
No more Skyhawks!! Thanks to Herman Munster!!!! Aka Helen Clark !!!
Thanks Helen Clark
Thanks Helen :(
I miss our Skyhawks!
In 1993 i was for three or four days in Malaysia near the Kuantan AB to see Skyhawks, but I was only able to see one of these birds at two traffic patterns. This was'nt so succesfull... 😂
But since a few years we have in Germany some former Israel and now civil Skyhawks for target practice of the german air force at Wittmund AB.
I live in Bavaria and Wittmund is sadly at the other end of Germany, but yeah, I was there now two times for watching skyhawks and maybe this September or next year in spring I will go there again...
A4 Skyhawk, one of the best.......
True, though I've just been reminded (after reading a history of the French Foreign Legion) that if you disestablish units, then you loose your experienced cadres for when you next need to re-establish the unit, usually making the reconstituted formation much less effective than it would have otherwise been.
We need to reinstate our strike wing 👍🇳🇿
And those of us on the ground can throw rocks and insults at any enemy, now that we have been disarmed....The army and airforce certainly aren't going to be able to help us
That first pass was quick. Almost thought I heard a sonic boom. I know they A4 isn't a supersonic aircraft though.
It was probably the mic crackling from the noise of the jet
Yes it is when clean and in a dive. I personally heard the sonic boom when serving at Ohakea !
I miss flying the scooter
Wow, very nice. Love A-4s. I think NZ is gonna regret getting rid of its own air defense though, since the US has no money to deploy its carriers any more, and China is getting four of them. You guys have great airshows. Gotta go there someday.
It's a pity RNZAF doesn't have an ACW anymore.
They have big bro Australia. I don't see in what scenario would Australia just stand by if a hostile country somehow got it in their head to threatened New Zealand. Not that there's anything in NZ worth embarking on such a venture anyway. Did NZ have territorial dispute with anyone worth mentioning? With the People's Republic of Antarctica maybe?
Fadly A. Rahman the point is we should have to rely on australia or the us or the uk. Its humilating and lazy to burden them with our defense
I think the South Korean FA-50 would make a decent solution for the RNZAF's needs, but only if it has or is going to have Harpoon integration. It's a decently cheap aircraft, at only $30 million a pop, with good supersonic performance (and rate of climb) for interception and air policing duties. The only other real option would be the Gripen, but might be too expensive from a procurement standpoint but would be higher performance and a more long term solution.
I'm sure the RNZAF could afford a minimum of ten FA-50.
I also wonder if the RNZAF could jump into the KF-X program which might give a boost to New Zealand's defense industry and extended civilian industrial base. An investment in defense can be an investment in the economy.
Thing is, we had already paid a deposit of tens of millions for brand new F16's which PM Helen Clark cancelled, and then spent 5 times that lease deal on the NH90!
We could of got surplus refurbished blackhawks for a fraction of that, and still leased the F16, and with budget surpluses over the last ten years bought extra frigates and new C130 J, C17 even.
Not poor by any means,Treasury is just blind, stupid to the dangers we face and tight fisted with cash.
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We have a very similar problem in Ireland. We once had the Light Strike Squadron consisting of 6 Fouga CM170 Magisters. Now they weren't much but they were better than nothing at all. They were retired in 1999 and never replaced, leaving the Irish Air Corps with no jet combat aircraft to this day. As you mentioned, the FA-50 would be perfect for both Ireland and New Zealand's needs, i.e. air policing, interception etc. Capable of Mach 1.5 and cheap to buy.
Nz missed the deal of century with the F16s basically 20 aircraft for 30million.
They should still be flying
***** they are still flying just not in NZ
Its going to a blast working for "Maj" on these birds!
Super
Have you ever seen a Skyhawk in the flesh? They're great.
Wow is that the wither hills over in blenheim because I know we have one in storage in the museum
Yes, Blenheim.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd now we have nothing.
Few fixed wing trainers and a few helos, our poor airforce pilots wont get to taste highspeed flight for many years :
Cinnabun NZ should buy Australia FA 18 A/B hornets they are still a very capable aircraft many had upgrades to them while Australia gap wait on F35 A JSF fighter.
Australia will have 24 of F18 F super hornet and EA growlers electronic jamming aircraft, as also 100 F35 A JSF stealth fighters serving by 2018 till 2045
Australia older FA18s would make a good replacement of the NZ A4 skyhawk till 2035 it will give NZ time to come up with money for a modern fighter jet, at least the F18 hornets will protect NZ till its end date the F18s still match enemy aircraft and are good dog fighter, add a few upgraded anti ship missiles and AMX9 sidewinder missiles and free fall bombs NZ will have a good aircraft for anther 20 years. Australia is only getting rid of them because the ADF required a later air craft that is 5th generation and larger for upgrade bombs as the older FA18A/B hornet cannot carry as much weapons as the super hornet can or the F35 A JSF, though it is still a capable fighter and would be perfect for NZ
Anchialem Gale problem is, NZ doesn't like military spending, we're very anti-war and any military spending is frowned upon, especially with the growing child poverty in the country, would be a bad time to invest in jets.
Cinnabun it is good NZ anti war after ww1 and ww2, and korea and Vietnam who can blame you, though every country needs to have a active military , even though you try to avoid war sometimes war comes to you even if you don't want it.
It is better to be able to defend then be defenceless, there is to many dictators today and to many other allies who can pull us into a war unexpected and unready to make that mistake to be defenceless.
I know Australia will fight to save NZ to our last man if we had to, as USA had told Australia take a shear of the burden and arm to defend before asking help, it may suck financially though Australia is arming our military.
Anchialem Gale Yeah, I think it's because people feel we're so isolated we're at no risk and dont pose any threat.
Cinnabun Russia Navy made it's way down to our warters there is no such thing as isolated as to be to far, it is 2015 not 1945.
The point is, it is better to arm then not to, just think of the consequences just if it does.
Who knows if one day Indonesia decided to try to attack Australia and New Zealand ? Australia will have a defensive retaliation though will New Zealand ? What if Indonesian try to invade NZ just to cause a second flank on Australia, it could happen, Australian radars are not protecting NZ as also NZ have no air defence to even put up a defence.
Crazy thinking mate, it is better to inspect the uninspected than to not.
All I can say is NZ you are crazy to let your guard down, especially when growing concerns with China North Korea and Indonesia, let alone Russia Iran and the jealous nation India.
many of these countries I mentioned above are only waiting for us to disarm while they build there's , then watch out allies, and you know what, it will be our fult to trust them and to let our guard down.
Our old diggers will be shaking there heads at as, as the fool.
experience is mostly the better pilot than a new machine, indeed...
@tasman with us having no fighter wing a invading force could drop paratroops anywhere tanks an other heavy equipment gone are the days of a shootout at the beach
Exactly. It was never about quantity, it was about capability. You can always buy new aircraft, but you cant just pull fighter jocks out of your back pocket. Yes, the A4s were old and drained the budget. But the fact we now have an Air Force with no interception capability is testament to short sighted political philosophies like 'we live in a benign defence environment'. One day the Chinese or whomever the superpower du jour is may want some more 'living space'. Won't be too benign then.
The most ironic thing to me is those “clapped out” a4s are still harrying american fighter pilots in the us at redflag every year
I have a dedicated playlist of them ;
They should seriously consider bringing at least 5 Skyhawks and 5 MB-339s back into service. Sure, the Skyhawk was built a LONG time ago. But they can be upgraded. Also, the MB-339 can be used as both a Trainer and a Strike Fighter.
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The only way NZ could afford a strike force was by starving the army of equipment and equipping the navy with second hand British frigates. The only time an RNZAF A-4 fired its guns off a training area was in 1976 and the target was a Taiwanese fishing boat.
Did any of them get sold to private hands in NZ? I would love to see one in future airshows. As far as im aware there are only a couple or so as a static display without the engine, etc.
US govt said they couldn't be sold to private owners. So that was that.
Styan Barron
Yes, but that only applied to buyers in the US, in the end they did manage to sell some of them to a private company in the US, was just alot of paperwork and bureaucracy.
nzoomed None are allowed to fly in NZ as there are no US approved operators, and the fact that it is to much of a capability for a civilian to operate.
A good number of the A-4Ks and MB-339s were purchased by Draken International, a private contractor firm for aerial adversarial training here in the US. To honor the origins of the aircraft, they still sport the distinctive dark green camo and even RNZAF kiwi roundels.
Tremendo avión de guerra. El combustible que se ve que usa en este video no es bueno, deja estela de humo, en la guerra de Malvinas los argentinos le pusieron el mejor combustible que no dejaba estelada humo y tenía más autonomía de buelo!!!
Wasn't the A4 Skyhawk the plane in the 1980's Pepsi (or Coke?) commercial? The one where the pilot rolls his plane to get the drink out?
I think that was a harrier
Yes they were Skyhawks, I remember because I was obsessed with Skyhawks as a kid.
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Ótimo bombardeiro !
A legacy F/A-18 would do the job for an effective air force. They should consider taking some Marine Corps Hornets off their hands... I'm just saying
Yep its good option
Australia will be getting rid of load of F/A -18s as the F35 enters service.
We need f 16s to replace our fighter wing
We almost did. Jenny shipley ordered i think 30 of them during her tenure as PM in the late 90s but then the ex-pot smoking anti-vietnam war protesting hippie comrade helen became PM cancelled the order then scrapped the entire air combat wing in an unforgivable act of treason.
And WHY would you rid some of the best pilots in the world and give them nothing, dont get it NZ
No one does. It was utter madness by a marxist lunatic who cared more about a future job in the UN than her own fucken country
Vote New Zealand First to get our Strike Wing back again , its apart of their Defence Force policy , including more ships and aircraft
Hahaha how did that work for you?
Look at the mess nzfirst made of the county
zero chance. sellout winnie has cuddled up to the marxists.
@@themadmgtow5196 Labour are a capitalist party if you look closely. Calling them Marxists is an insult to real Marxists.
Thats what happens when you put a women incharge !! Should have kept them or atleast upgraded to the f-16's or f-18's like the aussies
Then again if nz was invaded a dozen sky hawks would have no chance
It would buy us time though till we get some help. A small determined force can be a big pain in the ass for an invading force
@@LogieT2K if anyone was going to invade they would have a container ship stacked high with jets and lav in containers then roll into a port after it was taken by paratroopers or marines
If NZ were invaded ??? You are too late, it has been " bought " , and its owners do not live here ( sold by successive govts of either variety ) .
But who would invade NZ ? What for ??? Our sheep ? Besides, me and half the population would be down on the beach with rifles to make life ugly for them.
The RAAF have made us a very promising offer . Do you think we should take it ?
You and all your mates with rifles would be easy meat for a foreign fighter jet.
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@@douglasnakamura6753 we would never bloody know unless we tried. How about a M107A1 50 cal rifle with high explosive rounds chambered might do it? Albeit a massive fluke but other than that you are right my friend.
An act of treason
If a country wanted NZ... They'd just take it ;)
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