A-4M Skyhawk
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Conceived by Douglas Aircraft Corporation engineer Ed Heinemann in response to a US Navy request for proposals for a new light attack aircraft, the single-engine A-4 was remarkable for its compact size and impressive performance. Small enough to...Lake Buccaneer
Lake Buccaneer LA-4-200 During World War II the United States trained hundreds of thousands of pilots who served in the military, and immediately following the war many small general aviation airplanes were designed with the intention of providing peacetime private...Thunderbird
Thunderbird Scientists at the California Institute of Technology experimented with solid fuel rockets during and after World War II. After several incidents in which exploding rocket fuel damaged university buildings, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was established...
General Atomics MQ-1B Predator
Developed as an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, the MQ-1 gained notoriety when adapted into the world’s first armed UAV.