Very cool. I believe that is the "Super Fox". Correct? Heard a lot about it.

I got several TA-4J rideswhen I was stationed ap Patuxent River in fhe mid 1970s,along with many T-2,T-38, and F-4B/J rides. Loved the TA-4J rides! I was a AME. Got out for 4.5 yrs,then went back active until I retired as a CPO in 1997.

Don't get it into a Sabre dance.

That's a beautiful looking TA-4F, nice!

Decathalon! Would love to sandbag with you in that. =) Question: How did you go about getting checked out in the A4? What was the program you went through? Every pilot has a story..

Wow, that cockpit really looks narrow 😮

Lovely, lovely, lovely, More Scooter action please :-)

Enjoyed watching the flight…

Great jet and very historical! Lot’s of Navy and Marines flew and fought in it over North Vietnam, including Everett Alvarez and John McCain.

Make more videos on mig21

TA-4F and J are beautiful aircraft. The J the Blue Angels used for #7 looked amazing in it's blue and gold paint, as did the other A-4E and F they used. The TA-4J they used is currently sitting on the deck of the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, Texas. No longer wearing it's Blue Angel paint. Too bad too. A lot of history surrounding that aircraft. Famous people flew in it, and it was flown by some great pilots no longer with us. Safe flying Jet Jerod!

I’m kind of curious how those guys were able to fly a TA-4F Skyhawk military jet. I thought civilians pilots weren’t able to fly that only propeller airplanes and helicopters.

We just got an L-29 and a provost MK.3

I'm jealous. For two years, I worked on the A-4C's we had in VA-36 Roadrunners, '67-'69. '68-'69 I was in the ordnance shop while we were in the gulf of Tonkin. A fellow ordnance shop AO3 came to our squadron from VA-44, where he got fly back seat a couple of times in the A-4F he was "plane captain on before being transferred to our squadron for the Intrepid "World Cruise to and from the Gulf of Tonkin, '68-'69." I even finally got my PPL in 2002 while Airfield Ground Ops Supervisor at a closed USAF SAC base. Not the same though.

Jerod if you ever want a chase/photo plane for one of your Houston flights, let me know! I fly an L-39 (N187D) out of Austin and it would be fun to come down to Ellington for this.

Great to see the T-bird in the air! Glad that there are at least a few folks qualified to fly the Skyhawk. The Skyhawk "near" me is the Warbird Heritage Foundation's A-4C. Paul Wood is who I normally see fly it at their local airshow. I thought there was some mention of him getting too old to fly the old routine, so they cut out some of the more energetic maneuvers... or maybe it was the Skyhawk that's too old? Any comments/observations on the number of folks who are certified to fly the available number of Skyhawks?

Great job getting this video out there Jerod and Jordan!

All these videos are helping out with the FOMO! Thanks Jerod! this is great stuff!

So you have the more powerful and lighter TA-4F, vs the weaker TA-4J?

In this video when the burner kicks on and peaks out the microphone, its a very similar deep sounding rumble to what it sounds like doing the saddle back checks after we start the airplane and are standing on the wings. Its a sound you feel, more than hear.

Wild to think we're going to essentially get this exact 100 in DCS.

Thanks for sharing

Oh, and another interesting video. Thanks again.

As I mentioned in my comments about the F-100 KZbin video yesterday about me working at the Vermont Air National Guard we had an air show around 74 I think. The base always tried to have an event once a year. The base had tried to get the Thunderbirds in for the event but from what I heard they were scheduled elsewhere. Instead, the Navy had sent two pilots to do their show with an A-4 and a A-7. It was the first time I had seen the A-4. We had Air Force A-7's in before. The Navy versions sat up a bit higher for aircraft carrier landings I believe. Unusual combination of aircraft I thought but I will say they gave a spectacular show with just the two planes. Who knows, they may have been former Blue Angel pilots now that I think of it. But it was a good hour show in my recollection and great acrobatics. The crowd was very pleased. I went over to the A-4 to watch the captain get out of the aircraft. He appeared to be sweating, and his face was fairly red probably from the compression suits they wore. I said thanks to him for a great show. Another great event. I was 22 then. a long time ago......................

Seeing a Skyhawk getting prep'ed to fly just makes my heart beat a little faster!! Always happy to see more video of it soaring through the sky! Thanks!

Nice bro

I worked at the Vermont Air National Guard from 1971 to 1978. The last 3 years I went into crash and rescue for the Burlington Airport where the guard base was to support commercial and air guard air craft. There was an air show there for the weekend. When all the different planes would arrive they would do something fancy like low approaches and heading straight up or fly by upside down. My favorite plane was the F-100 because it just looked menacing. And at the end of the weekend, when they were heading back to their base they again would do some fly by to say see you later. My shift captain and I drove out to the flight line to watch everyone leave. We were right on the edge where the grass area begins. And then came the F-100. Now these fly by flights were over the main runway. The F-100 took off and peeled off to the right or south of the airport hauling ass. We watched him circle round in the distance making his way back to the airport. He started coming in from the west heading east and it suddenly occurred to us that "hey, he's coming right at us!" about maybe 40 feet above the ground. We were in a International pickup with some halon and dry chem firefighting apparatus mounted in the back. Of course we had the windows rolled down. When he went over us the truck kinda lifted up from left to right along with every piece of debris from the flightline to the grass field in front of us. It was a hurricane of stuff pulverizing us that last about 15 seconds for everything to settle never mind how loud it was. It was a FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE. The tower got a chuckle I'm sure as did the pilot. Great memory and a great video you've posted. Thanks!! I did manage to go up in a T-33 twice, missed out on a ride in the F-102 and B-57 Canberra that were there during my tenure. The F-4's came in after I left.

What a magnificent machine!! At 5:26, it took me a few goes to work out what wasa going on, before I worked out the camera is probably on a gimbal :-)

Is that an old Flight System Inc. logo on the FOD cover? I know they had a lot of F-100s that they were turning into target drones out at Majove Airport years ago.

Will this plane be attending Airventure 2025

Great video. Thank you for sharing. Would be an amazing experience.

Nice! The rear-facing perspective was novel too. Although... did I mention that I get airsick when I fly facing to the rear? Excuse me while I get this bag out.... 😉

Wow, didn't know they made airplanes that flew with no pilot!

Is there anyone trying to get an f105 airworthy that you know of? They were a workhorse of Vietnam air war.......

Im just fascinated by watching the leading edge slats moving in and out, just on air pressure.

First! Nice video!! Can even see Grinnelli's microphones!

1:25 Your Kiwi roundel is facing the wrong way. It should face forwards. Awesome ride though. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you to speak about this great machine. Directly created from the cold-war. Un grand merci de la part d'un français. 👍🏻👍🏻

im building a model kit of the TA-4, so i went looking for references. regular A-4 all over the place, but yours is the only video ive seen on the TA. good on ya!

Bunch of unnecessary bs radio talk about “not having your door shut” ALL WHILE NOT ACTUALLY TRUE and in danger of a midair collision btw. Get it together

Congrats Jerod!

Welcome to the Decathlon club! I hope to fly mine again someday if it ever gets out of annual... ;)

Congrats! She's a good looking bird!

Did my aero rating in a Citabria, very similar type and was huge fun!

Two thumbs up!

Nice! Now you'll be able to fly more often! Won't need to wait until the museum has something ready for you to take up. Can't wait to see some videos of you flying this, and looking forward to the next time you get to fly the gnat.

LOL

Absolutely love the Decathlon. Such an awesome aircraft.

Always wanted to do basic aerobatics......good plane to do them in.

Neat Decathlon! Hope to see more of it ;)