Skyraider

The Skyraider is a highly maneuverable, propeller driven aircraft designed as a multipurpose attack bomber or utility aircraft.

Swanson, William E. 1990

The Skyraider is a highly maneuverable, propeller driven aircraft designed as a multipurpose attack bomber or utility aircraft.

Wagener, David R. 1990

His assignment was to help search for a lieutenant who had taken off from a base in Thailand in a propeller-driven "Skyraider" that could fly heavily laden with wing and belly weapons.

Campbell, Clyde W. 1990

The piston and propeller driven, single-engine, tail-wheel fighter plane known as the Douglas "Skyraider".

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

Aviator on 15 February 1965, and was sent to an A-1 (AD) "Skyraider" squadron in Alameda, California.

Latendresse, Thomas B. 1977

When shot down, Hamilton was flying the lead "Skyraider," a propeller-powered aircraft, while attempting to recover two downed jet aircraft pilots.

Hamilton, John S. 1967

Dengler then joined the U.S. army at age 18, where he became a Skyraider pilot.

Bruce Henderson Tells Amazing Hero Story On The Daily Show (VIDEO) 2010

Dengler then joined the U.S. army at age 18, where he became a Skyraider pilot.

Bruce Henderson Tells Amazing Hero Story On The Daily Show (VIDEO) 2010

An officer in full dress is standing before the casket reciting "High Flight," the pilot's anthem, the same poem that always graced our mantelpiece on a decoupage plaque wedged between the other mementos of my father's career, a model of the T-37, the T-38, the A-1 Skyraider, the F-16.

The Mission: She hadn't been to her father's grave since she was 13 but questions were drawing her back Karen Houppert 2010

This second player was the Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a tough propeller-driven relic of the 1950s and a direct descendant of the last propeller-driven aircraft of World War 2.

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