Aircraft: TA-4F Skyhawk Custodian: VF-126 BuNo: 152855 modex: NJ-619 Location: air-to-air Date: 05 June 1974 Description: Lt Bill Mocock and Skyhawk designer Ed Heinemann in Bandits Skyhawk BuNo 152855, NJ-619, westbound over NALF San Clemente, San Clemente Island, CA. Photo credit: official U.S. Navy photo contact: G. Verver

Ed Heinemann’s only A-4 flight 5/06/74... From Ed Heinemann's autobiography: "In 1974...I got a ride in a Skyhawk. At NAS Miramar, Lieutenant Bill Mocock took me up in a TA-4 and we toured Catalina and the San Clemente Islands as well as a few other places before returning for some touch and gos. Mocock, who was a very smooth pilot, let me fly the plane - a most pleasing experience. I didn't think of it at the time, but that flight out in a jet, when compared to my first hop in a Curtiss flying boat forty-eight years earlier - also out to Catalina - served as an illustration of man's remarkable progress in aviation over such a comparatively short time."

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