The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has launched a new Vietnam war-styled light combat aircraft. The aircraft, previously known as the OA-1K, is now officially named the Skyraider II, a name ...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Air Force Special Operations Command has dubbed its newest aircraft Skyraider II, a nod to the Cold War-era propeller plane that delivered close air support during the ...

KUNA, Idaho -- In 1966, Bernard Fisher, then an Air Force major and A-1E Skyraider pilot, heroically risked life and limb to rescue a fellow pilot who had crash-landed on an airstrip surrounded by ...

The A-1E Skyraider aircraft seemed like a “relic from an earlier time” when it was deployed in the Vietnam War half a century ago, according to the Air Force’s national museum. The propeller plane, a ...

The need for a low-tech CAS/ISR aircraft is obvious, but the AT-6B may not be the best solution, for reasons discussed by [Editor-in-Chief] Bill Sweetman in February (p. 36). I have a solution: Take ...

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will temporarily close some galleries Saturday due to the discovery of fuel in a vintage A-1E Skyraider, according to the museum. Museum staff Friday ...

Early in 1968, a bombing ban was finally lifted from the Plain-de-Jars region of Laos, and I was scheduled for my first A-1E Skyraider mission into that area. My wingman, Ralph Hoggatt, was a bona ...