Author: RAUSA, ROSARIO
Title: Skyraider the Douglas a-1 Flying Dump Truck
Description: Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer, 1987. Second Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0933852312. B&W Illustrations; 9.10 X 6.30 X 0.80 inches; xv, 239 pages; Hard cover is red with silver lettering on spine. Slight rubbing, bumping to covers. DJ has light rubbing, shelf wear, red spine with white lettering; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of b/w photographs. "The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly AD) was an American single-seat attack aircraft that saw service between the late 1940s and early 1980s. The Skyraider had a remarkably long and successful career; it became a piston-powered, propeller-driven anachronism in the jet age...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 Air Force of the Republic of Vietnam (VNAF) , and others. In U. S. Service, it was finally replaced by the LTV A-7 Corsair II swept wing subsonic jet in the early 1970s..The piston-engined 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 types such as the Helldiver and 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 in April 1945, the USN began evaluation of the aircraft at the Naval Air Test Center (NATC). 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".3 appendices; index.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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