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Boneyard files: Douglas A-1 Skyraider – the last piston powerhouse in the desert

Douglas A-1 Skyraider served from Korea to Vietnam as a rugged close-support aircraft, later ending its career at Davis-Monthan's Boneyard.
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How the A-1 Skyraider Defied the Jet Age with Raw Power, Engineering Ingenuity, and Heroic Combat Endurance

“piloting 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 ...