While it played a crucial role in Vietnam, the Douglas A-1 Skyraider was designed during World War II for the U.S. Navy. It arrived after World War II ended, but during the Korean War the ...

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 ...

In an era dominated by jet power, the Douglas A-1 Skyraider proved that prop planes still packed a punch. Against all odds, these rugged aircraft brought down a MiG fighter in one of the most jaw ...

The Douglas Skyraider was a single-seat, carrier-based, long-range dive/torpedo bomber that saw action in Korea and Vietnam. This particular airplane, an AD-4NA built in the early 1950s ...

The Douglas A-1 Skyraider was designed for the US Navy in the final years of World War II. The A-1, a piston-engine propeller plane, held its own even as the US embraced jet-powered aircraft.

The Douglas XBT2D-1 Skyraider prototype BuNo ... but no longer state-of-the-art — to bolster South Vietnam’s fledging air force. That November, South Vietnamese air force Skyraiders helped ...

They spent tense hours at night, seated in their aircraft and ready for catapult launch with nuke bombs, before the mission was ultimately called off… The Douglas A-1 Skyraider, also known as ...

The A-10 Warthog takes all the glory when it comes to modern close-air support enthusiast circles. That's in spite of more than a couple of flaws that its superfans seem to deny at all costs.

The service on 27 February said the close air support turboprop being delivered by L3Harris will be known as the “Skyraider II”, hearkening to the single-seat Douglas A-1 Skyraider light ...

The Douglas Skyraider has been the last piston engine propelled aircraft to shoot down a jet fighter. The last propeller U.S. Navy attack aircraft to disappear from the decks of the flattops was ...