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A-1 Skyraider "The Spad". The Exceptional Aircraft That Could Carry 14,000 lbs of ordnance and fuel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2023
- The Douglas AD Skyraider, also known as the A-1 Skyraider is an American single-seat attack aircraft in service from 1946 to the early 1980s. The Skyraider had a remarkably long and successful career well into the Jet Age (when most piston-engined attack or fighter aircraft were replaced by Jet aircraft) thus becoming known by some as an "anachronism". The aircraft was nicknamed "Spad", after the French World War I fighter.
It was operated by the United States Navy (USN), the United States Marine Corps (USMC), and the United States Air Force (USAF), and also saw service with the British Royal Navy, the French Air Force, the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF), and others. It remained in U.S. service until the early 1970s.
The jet powered A-10 Thunderbolt II was based on specifications for a modernized Skyraider with a heavy payload and good endurance.
The piston-engined propeller Skyraider was designed during World War II to meet United States Navy requirements for a carrier-based, single-seat, long-range, high performance dive/torpedo bomber, to follow on from earlier aircraft such as the Douglas SBD Dauntless, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver and the Grumman TBF Avenger. Designed by Ed Heinemann of the Douglas Aircraft Company, prototypes were ordered on 6 July 1944 as the XBT2D-1. The XBT2D-1 made its first flight on 18 March 1945, and the USN began evaluation of the aircraft at the Naval Air Test Center (NATC) in April 1945. In December 1946, after a designation change to AD-1, delivery of the first production aircraft to a fleet squadron was made to VA-19A.
The AD-1 was built at Douglas's El Segundo plant in Southern California. In his memoir The Lonely Sky, test pilot Bill Bridgeman described the routine yet sometimes hazardous work of certifying AD-1s fresh off the assembly line at a rate of two aircraft per day for delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1949 and 1950.
A Douglas XBT2D-1 Skyraider prototype
The low-wing monoplane design started with a Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone radial engine which was later upgraded several times. The aircraft had distinctive large straight wings with seven hardpoints apiece. The Skyraider had excellent maneuverability at low speed, and carried a large amount of ordnance over a considerable combat radius. It had a long loiter time for its size, compared to much heavier subsonic or supersonic jets. The aircraft was optimized for ground attack and was armored against ground fire in key locations, unlike faster fighters adapted to carry bombs, such as the Vought F4U Corsair or North American P-51 Mustang, which were retired by U.S. forces before the 1960s.
Shortly after Heinemann began designing the XBT2D-1, a study was issued showing that for every 100 lb (45 kg) of weight reduction, the takeoff run was decreased by 8 ft (2.4 m), the combat radius increased by 22 mi (35 km) and the rate-of-climb increased by 18 ft/min (0.091 m/s). Heinemann immediately had his design engineers begin a program for finding weight savings on the XBT2D-1 design, no matter how small. Simplifying the fuel system resulted in a reduction of 270 lb (120 kg); 200 lb (91 kg) by eliminating an internal bomb bay and hanging external stores from the wings or fuselage; 70 lb (32 kg) by using a fuselage dive brake; and 100 lb (45 kg) by using an older tailwheel design. In the end, Heinemann and his design engineers achieved more than 1,800 lb (820 kg) of weight reduction on the original XBT2D-1 design.
The Navy AD series was initially painted in ANA 623 glossy sea blue, but during the 1950s, following the Korean War, the color scheme was changed to light gull grey and white (Fed Std 595 27875). Initially using the gray and white Navy scheme, by 1967 the USAF began to paint its Skyraiders in a camouflaged pattern using two shades of green, and one of tan.
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 38 ft 10 in (11.84 m)
Wingspan: 50 ft 0.25 in (15.2464 m)
Height: 15 ft 8.25 in (4.7816 m)
Wing area: 400.33 sq ft (37.192 m2)
Airfoil: root: NACA 2417; tip: NACA 4413
Empty weight: 11,968 lb (5,429 kg)
Gross weight: 18,106 lb (8,213 kg)
Fuel capacity: 380 US gal (320 imp gal; 1,400 l) internal tanks
Powerplant: 1 × Wright R-3350-26WA Duplex-Cyclone 18-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 2,700 hp (2,000 kW)
Propellers: 4-bladed Aeroproducts constant-speed propeller
Performance
Maximum speed: 322 mph (518 km/h, 280 kn) at 18,000 ft (5,500 m)
Cruise speed: 198 mph (319 km/h, 172 kn)
Range: 1,316 mi (2,118 km, 1,144 nmi)
Service ceiling: 28,500 ft (8,700 m)
Rate of climb: 2,850 ft/min (14.5 m/s)
Wing loading: 46.6 lb/sq ft (228 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.149 hp/lb (0.245 kW/kg)
Armament
Guns: 4x 20 mm AN/M3 cannon with 200 rounds per gun
Hardpoints: 15 external hardpoints with a capacity of 8,000 lb (3,600 kg), with provisions to carry combinations of:
Other: bombs, torpedoes, mine dispensers, unguided rockets, and gun pods.
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I hate to disappoint you boys, but I was a crew chief in an A-1E Skyraider Squadron at NKP Airport, Thailand in 1968! We were on the left end of the flight line and down on the right end was an A-1H Squadron. That A-1E was the best plane I ever worked on!
I know a Vietnam vet that was a radio operator, and he told me they would call in the "Dump Truck" and a A-1 would show up and unload hell. The guys that flew the A-1s in combat saved so many lives with out question. And come on any plane with a big ass radial up front will put a smile on anyone's face when it roars to life.
Next to the A-10 Warthog, this is a plane I absolutely love for closed air support, Jets will make a couple of passes and leave but the A1 will strike disappear and then come back later when you least expect it from the opposite direction and be on station for a least 10 hours 👍
' .... close air support .... '
Sorry my bad
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I sat in one at an airshow. Wow...what a plane! Awesome! The pilot told me he loves the handling and power this aircraft had.
@coryheckler2354 I talked with Vietnam veterans, and next to the Huey Choppers, the A1 always bought a smile to their face and talked about them holding the enemy back while they got picked up by the huey's
The Skyraider had a cameo appearance in the movie 'We Were Soldiers'. Awesome!
I was wondering that,watched a different video about this awesome plane. Ww2 era planes are my favorites. 🇨🇦
Funny thing is that my friend (came to the US as a young Vietnamese guy), and eventually became a USAF officer. Such a cool story to hear how they were able to get out of Vietnam.
I served on two carriers from 65-69. The first was CVA-19.. Bonnehom Richard aka Bonnie Dick and had the pleasure of working with the "Spads". So many came back shot to hell and most landed successfully. They'd withstand tremendous damage. Won't talk about the pilot's stories about dropping their ordinance on water buffalos before returning to land. Great times they were.
Thank you for your service
Maybe the best single engine support aircraft ever flown.
My all-time favorite American prop airplane!
My all time favorite aircraft...I can only imagine what it would have accomplished in WW2 if it had been developed a year earlier!
Great aircraft
Call sign’s “Judge & Executioner” helped out more than a few SOG folks thank you.
One Of My Favorite Airframes 😊❤️❤️😀😎👍🏼
This was an awesome video, God bless you all.🇨🇦
I’m a SAC Trained Killer myself and “By the Book” is not an understatement. It’s a way of life. There’s a page and paragraph for every contingency. Yea - good times. 😊
Nice airplane to cover good job!
Fun to watch these flying antiques...like the Model T of the sky.
I was on the flight line in Quonset point or our from 58 to 62. We sent many planes out of mothballs to Vietnam but we didn’t know where they were going.
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
50 years later we are now using converted crop dusters.
I like how you double talked when the President talked about the non existent Ton-kin Gulf incident! ...lol
the excellent end comment covers some brilliant aircraft but no mention of the spitfire or the Mosquito
I don't know why you like the Avenger so well. It was way outclassed even at the start of the war. It could take a lot of punnishment, though. The Helldiver was hated by everybody, and many carriers fought to hold on to their SBD's as long as possible.
As recently as 1979...*REMEMBERING WHAT CLASSES I WAS ENROLLED IN*😳\
*Looks up "CHAD" on GPT-4*
When the Skyraiders were in the Navy they didn't have ejection seats. These were retrofitted after the transfer to the Air Force.
Gud vid
Everything is good until the guy said that "we're here today because of the veterans." The only time that our nation was in any real danger was when it was born, the war for independence against the British. No one has ever invaded us, no one can. Even the Japanese, when they hit Pearl Harbor, that attack was meant to cripple the fleet in order to allow Japan to have freedom of action in the Pacific. They NEVER meant to invade us and no one else has either. It is our country that goes around bombing, invading and destroying other people's countries. I say this as a USMC veteran. We need to be honest about ourselves and stay out of "foreign entanglements," like our founders stated.
Well Maczguire its rather too bad that you re of the rather dim opinion thst the only time the USwas in danger was during the War of Independance.
Because you are patently incorrect.
I refer you to the War of 1812 wnen the British invaded the US from C anada and burned a portion of Washington. vlu f ing as I recall the White House.
I refer you to the Civil War when the Xouth got somewhat close to enlisting t h e aid of the British Navy .
I refer you to Germanys att e mpt to enlist Mexi c o againdt the US on behalf of the Axis powes in WW1.
And only an idiot would believe thst had the Japanese succeeded in destroyed the oil storsge at Pearl and our 4 aircraft car r iers thst were at sea that they would not h a ve taken and occupied the Hawaiian Islands and used th as t as a base of operatios ag as inst the West coast of the US.
The Japanese acctually did occupy a portion of Alaska for a time.
You re not a rong that the US has bee in some bad and pointless wars since the 1960s i would include Vietnam the 2nd Gulf War Afghanistan and Libya..
These are a direct result in my opinion of p o litical stupidity and lzck of accountsbility of the political leaders of the US and the e ntrenched idea thst we have to make the w I rld safe for the oil companies and democr
The British did a good job of invading us in 1810 or so…
If it was a turboprop, it would still be flying.
Great idea.
This is the only plane I can think of, that when fully loaded you think "that will never take off"
there are reports of the A-1 being used in desert storm so a pretty long servie life
Please DCS, please.
Also involved with the capture of the USS Pueblo in the north China sea.
A-10s father
another ufo for all who see it.