A-1 Skyraider: The Prop-Powered Attack Aircraft That Defied the Jet Era Dating back to the 1970s and beginning in the 1950s, jet engines were standard in U.S. fighter/attack aircraft.

Believe it or not, the U.S. didn't retire its propeller-driven attack aircraft and even built some new ones. The most notable of these was the A-1 Skyraider, first flown in 1945. The aircraft ...

The A-1 Skyraider, originally given the designation AD Skyraider, was the result of a Navy decision in 1943 that consolidated dive-bombing and torpedo-plane missions into one kind of aircraft.