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 ...

The event highlighted the A-1’s versatility ... The Douglas A-1H Skyraider, often nicknamed “Spad” after the World War I fighter, was a single-engine, propeller-driven attack aircraft ...

The Skyraider was built around an old Wright R-3350 radial engine, providing the necessary ... But not the Douglas Aircraft Company’s A-1 Skyraider. That’s because the Pentagon needed a ...

A-1 Skyraider: The Prop-Powered Attack Aircraft ... the prop-plane carried a higher payload and had a longer flying time than its jet-engine successors. To increase the Skyraider’s survivability ...

An A-1 Skyraider sits on the flight line at Davis ... and affordable single-engine, crewed platform. The Sky Warden will provide Close Air Support (CAS), precision strike, armed Intelligence ...

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.

When most people think of America's 20th-century attack aircraft, they likely picture something like the F-117A Nighthawk, the A-4 Skyhawk, or something similar. What people likely don't imagine ...

before the mission was ultimately called off… The Douglas A-1 Skyraider, also known as the “Spad,” was a legendary single-engine aircraft, as well as the last propeller U.S. Navy attack ...

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 ...

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 ...