Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Douglas A-4F Skyhawk BuNo 155033, Blue Angel 3, one of four Blue Angels A-4Fs hung in diamond formation in the Blue Angel Atrium of the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida, where it flies the left-wing slot: Ed Heinemann’s small single-seat carrier attack jet with a Pratt & Whitney J52 turbojet, a compact delta-like wing with leading-edge slats, side intakes and a tall swept fin: Blue Angels gloss blue overall with gold wing tips, tailplane tips and fin cap, a large gold ‘3’ on the fin, gold ‘U.S. NAVY’ on the rear fuselage and under the port wing, ‘Blue Angels’ script along the intakes, the team crest below the windscreen and a gold stripe along the nose and canopy sill, without the avionics hump, refuelling probe or guns, as photographed at Pensacola, shown on its undercarriage although it hangs gear-up (no Skyhawk is preserved in a UK museum; shape from an A-4E three-view drawing checked against an A-4M drawing and photographs). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 313 models · download .glb (1.2 MB) · Plate 225 in The Hangar