Four Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraiders buzz across the jungle canopy of North Vietnam ... The Douglas A-1H Skyraider, often nicknamed “Spad” after the World War I fighter, was a single-engine ...

Col. Bill Buice, a 98-year-old retired A-1 Skyraider pilot who flew the plane from Jun. 1967 to Jul. 1968 during the Vietnam War, and survived being shot down during a mission. The Skyraider II is ...

Its name is a nod to the A-1 Skyraider, a propeller-driven attack aircraft that saw heavy use in the Korean and Vietnam wars before its retirement in 1973. “Skyraider II represents not just a ...

An American pilot, on a mission to disrupt enemy traffic bound for North Vietnam, was flying into trouble. The artificial horizon on his A-1 Skyraider, a single-prop workhorse of World War II ...

The aircraft is named after the Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a piston-engined attack ... threats such as China and Russia. Moreover, the war in Ukraine has highlighted the extreme vulnerability of ...