The A-6 was the result of a 1957 Navy request for proposal for an all-weather attack jet to replace the AD Skyraider. Initially known as the A2F-1, the Intruder...
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Riverhead Town plans to spend $67000 to refurbish an F-14 Tomcat and an A-6 Intruder on display at Grumman Memorial Park.
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The A-6 could carry up to 18000 pounds (1600 kilograms) worth of bombs, which prompted the North Vietnamese to dub them “miniature B-52s.”
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Castle Air Museum, located at 5050 Santa Fe Drive in Atwater, one of the largest aerospace museum displaying vintage aircraft in the...
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The Grumman A-6 Intruder became a Jack-of-all-trades taking on a wide range of roles. The Grumman A-6 Intruder became a Jack-of-all-trades...
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On a May afternoon in 1972 a flight of four Grumman A-6 Intruders, the lead elements in an air wing strike, flew a hundred feet above North Vietnamese rice...
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Manned by a crew of two, pilot and bombardier-navigator, seated side by side, the A-6 Intruder would never have won a beauty contest.
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The Castle Air Museum in Atwater had a significant aircraft arrive on Friday, March 5th. The aircraft is a Grumman A-6E Intruder and is the...
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Ugly and formidable, the A-6 Intruder was a lethal enforcer of US foreign policy for over a third of a century. We spoke to Bomber/navigator...
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Flight of the Intruder was made with complete U.S. Navy cooperation: the USS Independence provided for two weeks of filming in November 1989 and A-6E...
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