The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly designated AD before the 1962 unification of Navy and Air Force designations) is an American single-seat attack aircraft...
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year. Former Fleet Air Arm Skyraider AEW.1, WT962. In storage AD-4W 127945 – Owned by Flygvapenmuseum but on loan to Skyraider AB, Karlskoga, for restoration...
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Douglas A2D Skyshark (redirect from Douglas XA2D-1)
turboprop instead of jet power. While it resembled the AD Skyraider, the A2D was different in a number of unseen ways. The 5,100-equivalent shaft horsepower...
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The Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a single-seat attack bomber was operated by eight countries outside of the main user - the United States. Khmer Royal Aviation...
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Sky Raider (redirect from Skyraider)
Raider or Skyraider may refer to: Douglas A-1 Skyraider attack aircraft Flying K Sky Raider, ultralight aircraft Worldwide Ultralite Skyraider S/S, ultralight...
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counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft to replace aging types such as the Douglas A-1 Skyraider. A formal United States Air Force (USAF) evaluation of the T-37 Tweet...
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VA-35 — Black Panthers. Callsign: "Raygun." Transitioned from the A-1 Skyraider in 1965. Based at NAS Oceana. Was featured in the film The Final Countdown...
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After finishing flight training, he trained as an attack pilot in a Douglas AD Skyraider at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. He joined the...
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intended to improve on the performance and firepower of the Douglas A-1 Skyraider. The Thunderbolt II's airframe was designed around the high-power 30 mm...
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Douglas A-1 Skyraider. Data from General characteristics Crew: 2 Wingspan: 15 m (50 ft) at least Max takeoff weight: 9,000 kg (19,842 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Pratt...
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compared favorably with a 2.0 rate in Korea and a 9.7 figure during World War II.: 268 A-1 Skyraider—191 total, 150 in combat First loss: A-1E 52-132465 (1st...
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VA-145, flying from the carrier USS Ranger, is shot down in his Douglas A-1 Skyraider over Laos. He survives the crash, only to be captured by the Pathet...
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Marine close air support. It was to replace the piston-engined Douglas A-1 Skyraider. The requirement allowed one or two engines, either turbojet or turboprop...
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Aircraft in fiction (section A-1 Skyraider)
James A. Michener novel The Bridges at Toko-ri, Douglas AD-1 Skyraiders fly RESCAP missions over a downed McDonnell F2H Banshee and Sikorsky HO3S-1 during...
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airplanes; a detachment of airborne early warning airplanes, modified A-1 Skyraiders called "guppies" because of their bulging ventral Radomes; and a land-based...
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(ANG) to replace their aging Douglas A-1 Skyraider and North American F-100 Super Sabre fleets. Improved models of the A-7 would be developed, typically adopting...
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combat missions in Southeast and Southwest Asia in the A-1 Skyraider and the F-15E Strike Eagle. A command pilot, he has more than 3,000 hours in various...
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killed, Lieutenant Richard Sather, piloting an A-1 Skyraider. Another, Lt. (jg) Everett Alvarez Jr. an A-4 Skyhawk pilot, became the first U.S. Navy prisoner...
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the AD-1 Skyraider. Two years later the squadron transitioned to AD-2 Skyraider and was redesignated Attack Squadron Twenty Four (VA-24) on 1 September...
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2022. The designation implies the aircraft is a version of the unrelated and long retired A-1 Skyraider, another tail dragger attack aircraft which was...
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AD (disambiguation) (redirect from A D)
British Admiralty A US Navy hull classification symbol: Destroyer tender (AD) AD Skyraider, former name of the Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a Navy attack aircraft...
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USS Midway Museum (category Template film date with 1 release date)
year. Douglas A-1 Skyraider Douglas A-3 Skywarrior Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Douglas SBD Dauntless Douglas TBD Devastator (replica) Grumman A-6 Intruder Grumman...
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Men of the Fighting Lady (category Template film date with 1 release date)
event that occurred during the Korean War. On March 22, 1952, Douglas A-1 Skyraider pilot Lieutenant John Howard Thayer, from VF-194 based on USS Valley...
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Singly even number, a number of the form 4n + 2 A-4N, a model of Douglas A-4 Skyhawk AD-4N, a model of Douglas A-1 Skyraider RQ-4N, a model of Northrop...
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Martin AM Mauler (redirect from Martin AM-1 Mauler)
switched to the smaller and simpler Douglas AD Skyraider. Maulers remained in reserve squadrons until 1953. A few were built as AM-1Q electronic-warfare aircraft...
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Attack aircraft (redirect from A- (plane))
"attack" (A) designation, when it renamed BT2D Skyraider and BTM Mauler to, respectively, AD Skyraider and AM Mauler. As with many aircraft classifications...
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November 1946. On 23 September 1947, the squadron transitioned to the AD-1 Skyraider, affectionately nicknamed the "Spad," the type it would fly for the next...
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