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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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A fighter plane designed for the US Navy during World War II was still taking down jet fighters over Vietnam 20 years later
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider was designed for the US Navy in ... by a single Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engine, the same model used on the B-29 Superfortress, the XBT2D could fly 300 mph and ...
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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 ...