Douglas F4D Skyray PDF eBook & Flight Manuals

General Characteristics

• Crew: one
• Length: 45 ft 3 in (13.8 m)
• Wingspan: 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m)
• Height: 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m)
• Wing area: 557 ft² (52 m²)
• Empty weight: 16,024 lb (7,268 kg)
• Loaded weight: 22,648 lb (10,273 kg)
• Max. takeoff weight: 27,116 lb (12,300 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney J57-P-8, ?8A or ?8B turbojet
  • Dry thrust: 10,200 lbf (45 kN)
  • Thrust with afterburner: 16,000 lbf (71 kN)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 722 mph (627 kn, 1,162 km/h)
• Range: 700 mi (610 nmi, 1,100 km) combat
• Ferry range: 1,200 mi (1,040 nmi, 1,900 km)
• Service ceiling: 55,000 ft (17,000 m)
• Rate of climb: 18,300 ft/min (93.3 m/s)
• Wing loading: 41 lb/ft² (198 kg/m²)
• Thrust/weight: 0.71

Armament

• Guns: 4 × 20 mm Colt Mk 12 cannon, 2 each just aft of the wing leading edge, mid-wing, underside, with 65 rounds/gun
• Rockets:
  • 6 pods of 7 2.75 in (70 mm) unguided rockets or
  • 4 pods of 19 2.75 in (70 mm) unguided rockets
• Missiles: 4 × AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles
• Bombs: 2 × 2,000 lb (907 kg) bombs

Avionics

• APQ-50A radar
• Aero 13F fire-control radar

XF4D-1

Prototypes, redesignated YF-6A in 1962, two built

F4D-1

Single-seat fighter aircraft, production model redesignated F-6A in 1962, 420 built.

F4D-2

Re-engined F4D-1 with the J57-F-14, 100 on order cancelled.

F4D-2N

F4D-2 version with extended nose housing twin radar scanners, project only evolved into the F5D Skylancer.

YF-6A

XF4D-1 prototypes redesignated in 1962.

F-6A

F4D-1 redesignated in 1962.

XF4D-1

• 124587 – U.S. Naval Museum of Armament and Technology at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.

F4D-1 (F-6A)

• 134748 – Pima Air and Space Museum adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum.
• 134764 – Naval Air Station Patuxent River in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum.
• 134806 – National Naval Aviation Museum
• 134836 – New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
• 134936 – Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum at Pueblo Memorial Airport, Colorado.
• 134950 – Aviation Heritage Park at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum.
• 139177 – Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum.