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  • 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.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

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