Sixty-five years ago today, on April 19, 1960, the Grumman A-6 Intruder took to the skies for the first time. The aircraft was born out of a 1957 request by the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics for a ...
The A-6 made her maiden flight on 19 April 1960 and was officially introduced into USN/USMC service in 1963, making history (bad pun intended vis-a-vis the movie quote in my opening paragraph) as the ...