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How the A-1 Skyraider Defied the Jet Age with Raw Power, Engineering Ingenuity, and Heroic Combat Endurance
Spads through a supersonic world, tasting the thunderstorms at 8,000 feet when an SR-71 [supersonic spy plane] was hitting three times the speed of sound above 70,000 feet. It was a ludicrous ...
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The US Military's Last Propeller-Driven Fighter Plane Was A Star In Vietnam
When most people think of America's 20th-century fighters, they likely picture something like the F-14 Tomcat featured in "Top Gun," the F-15 Eagle, or something similar. What people likely don't ...
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Air Force’s newest plane, the Skyraider II, honors a legendary aircraft
The single-engine turboprop OA-1K Skyraider II is designed ... The moniker renews the versatile nature of the A-1 Skyraider, which operated from 1946 through the early 1980s.
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Skyraider Returns: Why The US Has Resurrected The Vietnam-Era Combat Plane Name
The A-1 was retired from active service in ... It's powered by a single Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67F 1,600-horsepower turboprop engine, enabling the Skyraider II to reach a maximum speed of 245 ...
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Special Operations Forces Get First of Many Skyraider Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft
The moniker is a nod to the Douglas Aircraft Company A-1 Skyraider single-seat attack ... Mechanically speaking, the Skyraider turboprop is no stealth fighter jet, but it does have a lot of ...
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A-1 Skyraider: The Prop Plane That Could Fly Nearly Any Combat Mission
The Douglas A-1/ AD-1 Skyraider made her maiden flight on 18 March 1945, i.e. whilst WWII was still raging. If you think she bears at least a passing resemblance to another famous warbird made by ...
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Skyraider II: Air Force special ops unveils name for new aircraft
Its name is a nod to the A-1 Skyraider, a propeller-driven attack ... ultimately choosing in 2022 the single-engine, turboprop aircraft manufactured by L3 Harris and Air Tractor to perform that ...
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The Air Force Asked L3Harris: Can You Build Us a Fighter Plane for Less Than $50 Million?
L3Harris won the contract to build a fleet of Skyraider II fighter ... plane won't be a jet, but a turboprop armed with 6,000 pounds of bombs and missiles. Nearly 1 in every 5 countries in the ...
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How the low, slow A-1 Skyraider earned its place in the hearts of US troops in Vietnam
U.S. pilots nicknamed the A-1 Skyraider “Spad” after a wood-and-wire World War I fighter. By June 1965, the Skyraider was a 20-year-old design. In those two decades, fighter planes had gone ...
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Skyraider II: Air Force special ops unveils name for new aircraft with nod to attack plane used in Korea, Vietnam
Its name is a nod to the A-1 Skyraider, a propeller-driven attack ... ultimately choosing in 2022 the single-engine, turboprop aircraft manufactured by L3 Harris and Air Tractor to perform that ...
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OA-1K Officially Dubbed Skyraider II, Honoring the Legendary A-1 Skyraider
The name pays tribute to the battle-tested legacy of the A-1 Skyraider, a tough and adaptable warbird that served from 1946 through the early 1980s. AFSOC’s newest airframe, the OA-1K ...