By the 1950s, the jet engine was essentially the default on ... was still operating a propeller-driven attack aircraft, the A-1 Skyraider. In the 1970s, the A-1 was an anachronism.
The best of these was the A-1 Skyraider, a star in the Korean ... Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67F 1,600-horsepower turboprop engine, enabling the Skyraider II to reach a maximum speed of 245 mph and ...
What You Need to Know: The A-1 Skyraider ... used the Skyraider as their primary attack aircraft; the prop-plane carried a higher payload and had a longer flying time than its jet-engine successors.