+Harold Stone Affirmative. I flew the A-1 Skyraider with your father out of NKP RTAFB in NE Thailand in 1970-1971. I had posted two pictures of your father for you a couple of weeks ago. For lots of pictures, audio, squadron data, training class photos and other records, see www.skyraider.org.
+Alan Young We heard some pretty interesting stories about his time there. Would you please send me a short email about what it was like to fly with him? Based on the stories he told he was kind of a hot shot. hc.stone@yahoo.com. Thank you.
+Tuco Ramirez The key is that the Skyraider has an extremely tough airframe and piston engine designed for carrier operations. It's meant to take a pounding. It is also very stable and flies at lower air speeds and has lower wing loading than turbine fighters, so aerodynamic forces are a bit less violent. It is also big and has many empty spaces within the fuselage and wings, so many projectiles went through and on out the other side without destroying something critical. It also has heavy aluminum armor right around the cockpit. So it kept on flying even with some radical battle damage. The A-10 shares the same heritage in its even more redundant design. The real key is just how over-built and strong the plane is. If the AAA didn't kill you or damage the engine very badly a wounded Skyraider would get you out of the strike area safely. My worst day was a 12.7 mm AAA hit in a 20 mm ammo can. Big hole. You could see the ground down through the wing but it still flew well.
Used to watch these guys fly out of NKP and cross the border into Laos on the way to operations. I was totally impressed by these aircraft as they taxied out. Not as loud or fast as the Thuds when they lifted off the runway at Korat but saving those downed pilots in Indian country was a big job.
I used to ride in a jolly green giant going on runs to pick up packets of things needed to run the war. (Things that were needed to destroy downed birds like a F111A that just didn’t get back to Thailand and end up in Laos) Aardvarks were a thing of beauty, taking off from the alert apron and up into air and then pulling their wings back and flying off to support groung groups or as an intel plane flying in low just off the floor of tge jungle and leaving before they knew what had hit them.
I believe this design, and another prototype by Martin, were specifically requested as carrier based heavy support aircraft for the anticipated invasion of Japan. One of the great planes of history for sure.
As an Air Traffic Controller at NKP in 68 -69, it was always great to watch them rotate with 7500 lbs. of armament , but a much greater thrill to see them return 'clean' .
I was a crew chief there at NKP with the 1st SOS in 1969. I mostly crewed the "E" model there. What a experience that was and I was only 19 years old at the time.
Awesome, I was a 19yr old Navy going to ADR school in Memphis & towards the end of schooling we were to start up these monsters ! I was Seated in the cockpit (next to an instructor) & I was starting that monster while the instructor was yelling at me for calling out the Wrong hydraulic pressures ! All this over the smoke & noises from start up. Something ya never forget ! Loved it all
My grandfather flew these low and slow targeting the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the “secret war” in Laos and Cambodia. Sometimes flying as low as 10 feet over the jungle tree line. He was based in Thailand and flew 192 missions. He said he hated killing the elephants which sometimes were carrying supplies for the VC/NVA forces.
My dad did the same and also spoke of hating shooting the elephants, he even had dreams/nightmares of elephants coming after him. These guys were tough and true heroes
Tom Dwelle was a Sandy pilot that helped with the design for the A-10. He has a few videos on here along with a great interview on Blancolirio channel. Search Nevada County Airfest Arrivals Live -Dwelle Hawker Seafury and you'll see the interview along with his Seafury he used to race in Reno.
The navy called them Spads, the Air Force called them Sandy's, but nothing in the flying inventory could supply extended close air support like the Skyraider, people think that the prop planes are to outdated for current combat, I would point at the AC130 aircraft, also any theater of operation that helicopters can operate, propeller driven gunships would also be effective, and a lot cheaper than jets or helicopters.
Even the OV-10 Bronco still sees action here and there to this day! Some modified G variants were used to great success against ISIS, employing the APKWS (Hydra 70 with a mid-body distributed aperture laser guidance fin kit) to minimize collateral damage. Once again props proved to be precise and economic, so in short very efficient. It's also why I personally dislike the A-10 as anything other than a morale booster.
What a beast. My godfather was USAF FAC in Korea and he loved to watch the "Hun" work over enemy stations. He told me stories about this plane as it skimmed over tree-lines and dropped bombs, rockets and strafing for hours. This plane flew almost 30 years of combat missions for the US. Talk about versatility and durability!
What a fantastic aircraft she was, and God bless those talented,brave jocks that pulled the stick on the A-1. 191 were lost in viet nam, 172 in combat. However many ground elements owe their lives to the A-1 Skyraider and crews.
I worked on the Super Spads at Pleiku in 1967 weapons man that bird could haul some ordnance. Loaded my share of napalm and frag clusters. Hell you name it we loaded it. 1st ACS squadron. Unit moved to NKP we stayed back with 4 planes to hold down the fort Tect offensive in Feb of 68 got real interesting!
I was at Pleiku waiting for my pilot when an RVN pilot tried to land an A1E by coming in at an angle to the runway due to heavy ground fire, he put the plane on the ground and then tried to turn toward the runway! He lived, the plane died...
One thing about this airplane was it could take a licking and keep on ticking! This film had to have been made either in 1971 or shortly after because '71 was when the movie "Shaft" came out.
Amazing pilots, I have fontunant to work on Lyle Sheltons f-8 bear cat. "Rare bear" won several world championships at Reno. He was a sandy pilot. Rip Lyle!
What i love about The A1 Sky Raider was..not just the beauty of the aircraft itself but the ability n capability it represents. A1 was really was a flying tank! Fully Armed to the teeth n gum!! it has very strong n sturdy airframe build that enables it withstands such punishment from natures element n operations anywhere from rough,small n short runway airfield..even on dirt road or hi way if it had too..hours n hours of loitering time ability which are very essential n important not just for S.A.R mission,also for Recon,S.A.D n COINS missions too!the most best part was it can be upgraded with latest techs..it was not accident prone, (widow maker) very forgiving, safe n easy aircraft to fly(saves lots off cost n training hours for new pilots)fuel efficient,good flying or operation hours,easy to repair n low cost maintenance which were very important for a small country to have in their airforce like for example the south vietnam airforce to operate at that time. i would love to hv a bunch of fully armed to the teeth n gum A1 in my base as my personal low flight ops fighter-bomber Hahaha..
Douglas would later develop the Skyraider into the turboprop-powered A2D Skyshark. Unfortunately, it never entered service as the Allison T40 engine that powered it proved unreliable. Besides, Douglas was also at work on the pure-jet-powered F3D/F-10 Skyknight, which proved much better. By Vietnam, US forces were using the Vought A-7 Corsair II.
I watched (from another aircraft) as, time after time, "fast movers" were sent out to do tactical strikes against enemy positions in Vietnam. They would show up, take 10 minutes to figure out where the enemy was, drop one or two bombs and then head back to their base to refuel. In other words, they were just about USELESS to accomplish anything of importance. ONLY these 'low and slow" ..."prop" fighters were able to do ANYTHING against the Vietcong and/or North Vietnamese regiments. They had the loiter time to "nail" the location of enemy positions and the armament and TIME to make multiple strikes on them. We should have had MORE of them in Vietnam...and not just for SARS missions.
Did you get to see how the A-7 performed, by any chance? From a technology standpoint and lower speed, the pilot should've been able to engage the enemy more quickly and easily. That is compared to say the common F-4, but I don't know which types you saw of course, perhaps Huns as well.
VAW14 ZAPPERS OUT OF CUBI POINT NAS SUBIC BAY PHILIPPINES WEE THRRE 1965 WITH SPADS DURING OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER PAYING VISITS TO VIET CONG AND HO CHI MIEN TRAIL
While not a "nice" subject...it is, indeed, impressive AND nice, to see an actual "non-Hollywooded" view of such. I was told the Spad could...and, would...fly and provide cover in conditions that were impossible for the then-modern jet craft, that because of it's relatively spartan design for the period, it was reliable in most any climatic extreme shown it, as in, less electronics to go haywire. Nowadays? I'd say, no way of course. But, we were still in kind of a "transition period", with good, accurate suppressing fire, I guess one could say?
It could probably still work in counter insurgency. Not very safe against modern threats, so facing people using last gen tech, it could possibly do alright. Of course, a pushed prop may be better for the added protection to engine in the strafe, tricycle gears, more space for sensors, an area for an aerial refueling probe, and better placed cannons. A modern with sensors for aiming, modern situational awareness capabilities, a new prop engine, and possible stol capabilities could be a way to lower operating costs.
Ya..Loitering was the name of the game, we marine loved "sandy" (we liked the name sandy..it sounded "cuter" than spad. ) it wasn't weapones it carred that counted but the loitering time...as long as sandy was up there the bad guys kept their heads down in the mud and left us alone to get on with the job! '
Knew a Navy A-1 pilot, Jim Morris; last time I saw him he was flying crop duster helicopters out of Calipatria, California, I worked as a maintenance man/janitor at the airport. He used to live in San Diego, would like to meet and talk to him again
I'm not sure if ANY battle aircraft ever had as many hardpoints as the A-1...even more than today's battlefield support king, the A-10. What a @#%&load of weapons it could carry.
John Moore , no they didn’t need to, they could loiter for long periods of time. Another reason why they were so effective. They probably used more oil than fuel!
This airframe never had to search for a new role/mission. It could do many more than most. Just build brand new A-1's. Our SpecOps will find many ways and places to use them once again. Why dither with an unknown?
We have the A-10 and we should keep it, upgrade it. Having served in combat (Afgh,Iraq, Africa and around the world) The A-10 kicked ass, saved a lot of lives and scared the hell out of the enemy.
The A-10 was developed from the OV-10 Bronco used in Veitnam in the 1960s. If you google the Bronco, minus the two props, and add a slight variation to the tail to allow for the two jet engine exhausts, you'll notice the A-10 shape.
Back in the day some military orders were so absurd that in reality they became suicide missions. Recent wars of the past like the civil war or WW1 had troops march right into the line of fire. This tactic dwindled, being last used in Vietnam. With that said, the military sacrificed many lives sending pilots on these outdated A-1's which had high losses, almost 200 lost in combat. They may have a sturdy airframe but were not a match for MiGs or SAMs. All in all the US suffered massive losses of all types of aircrafts during the Vietnam war. Compared to modern warfare, US losses of its air power superiority has been extremely minimal thanks and gladly to a better military strategy and mentality that does not believe in the idea of suicide missions anymore.
Between the Navy and the Air Force, almost 600 F-4 Phantom II's were lost in the Vietnam War to all causes. That was about 1/3 of all the F-4's deployed to Vietnam. 201 A-1's were lost to all causes, not just combat, in the same period in the war, about 20% of the number deployed. Two A-1's shot down two NVA MiG-17's while two A-1's were lost to MiG-17's. Your argument that sending A-1"s into combat in Vietnam was suicide is hardly persuasive.
00:34 Who's the PLANE that won't cop out When there's danger all about? The A-1 SKYRAIDER won't cop out right on They say this A-1 SKYRAIDER is one bad mother FUDGER Shut your mouth But I'm talkin' 'bout A-1 SKYRAIDER Then we can dig it Its a complicated PLANE
This video by software . Why ? White and black in US , Europe , UK . . no one can fly any aircraft . Discovered in 2010 . If they did . In VN war must have dogfight . But did not .
I am the younger of the two pilots who strapped in and fired up the two aircraft in the film.Alan Young
+Alan Young Thanks for your service to our great nation. You rock!
Mr. Young. We're you stationed with Lt. Col. Herbert Stone in Southeast Asia?
+Harold Stone Affirmative. I flew the A-1 Skyraider with your father out of NKP RTAFB in NE Thailand in 1970-1971. I had posted two pictures of your father for you a couple of weeks ago. For lots of pictures, audio, squadron data, training class photos and other records, see www.skyraider.org.
+Alan Young We heard some pretty interesting stories about his time there. Would you please send me a short email about what it was like to fly with him? Based on the stories he told he was kind of a hot shot. hc.stone@yahoo.com. Thank you.
+Tuco Ramirez The key is that the Skyraider has an extremely tough airframe and piston engine designed for carrier operations. It's meant to take a pounding. It is also very stable and flies at lower air speeds and has lower wing loading than turbine fighters, so aerodynamic forces are a bit less violent. It is also big and has many empty spaces within the fuselage and wings, so many projectiles went through and on out the other side without destroying something critical. It also has heavy aluminum armor right around the cockpit. So it kept on flying even with some radical battle damage. The A-10 shares the same heritage in its even more redundant design. The real key is just how over-built and strong the plane is. If the AAA didn't kill you or damage the engine very badly a wounded Skyraider would get you out of the strike area safely. My worst day was a 12.7 mm AAA hit in a 20 mm ammo can. Big hole. You could see the ground down through the wing but it still flew well.
Used to watch these guys fly out of NKP and cross the border into Laos on the way to operations. I was totally impressed by these aircraft as they taxied out. Not as loud or fast as the Thuds when they lifted off the runway at Korat but saving those downed pilots in Indian country was a big job.
Salute to all Skyraider pilots and their crews! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I flew Jolly Greens in Vietnam. Was I ever glad when those guys showed up.
I could only imagine!
I used to ride in a jolly green giant going on runs to pick up packets of things needed to run the war. (Things that were needed to destroy downed birds like a F111A that just didn’t get back to Thailand and end up in Laos) Aardvarks were a thing of beauty, taking off from the alert apron and up into air and then pulling their wings back and flying off to support groung groups or as an intel plane flying in low just off the floor of tge jungle and leaving before they knew what had hit them.
Barely missed WWII. Can you imagine these things flying missions alongside P47s and Typhoons over the Falaise Gap?
I believe this design, and another prototype by Martin, were specifically requested as carrier based heavy support aircraft for the anticipated invasion of Japan. One of the great planes of history for sure.
As an Air Traffic Controller at NKP in 68 -69, it was always great to watch them rotate with 7500 lbs. of armament , but a much greater thrill to see them return 'clean' .
I was a crew chief there at NKP with the 1st SOS in 1969. I mostly crewed the "E" model there. What a experience that was and I was only 19 years old at the time.
"Pistons the size of gallon paint cans!"
Helo Crew Chief/Plane Captain here. Isn't it crazy now to think that they trusted us teenagers with machines that flew? 😮
Awesome, I was a 19yr old Navy going to ADR school in Memphis & towards the end of schooling we were to start up these monsters ! I was Seated in the cockpit (next to an instructor) & I was starting that monster while the instructor was yelling at me for calling out the Wrong hydraulic pressures ! All this over the smoke & noises from start up. Something ya never forget ! Loved it all
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
VAE13 OUT OF NAS CUBI POINT ABOARD USS MIDWSY 2965
I was in NKP 72 -73 , loved working on the Sandy,saw the return of 2 of our downed pilots
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
My grandfather flew these low and slow targeting the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the “secret war” in Laos and Cambodia. Sometimes flying as low as 10 feet over the jungle tree line. He was based in Thailand and flew 192 missions. He said he hated killing the elephants which sometimes were carrying supplies for the VC/NVA forces.
My father-in-law was a navigator for the Navy in the Skyraider in Vietnam. Tough and tight-knit group of men. We need more like those guys today.
My dad did the same and also spoke of hating shooting the elephants, he even had dreams/nightmares of elephants coming after him. These guys were tough and true heroes
With theme music like that, you KNOW that Spad is one bad mutha'! 😎
The A-10 of it's time.
The savior of so many soldiers.
Tom Dwelle was a Sandy pilot that helped with the design for the A-10. He has a few videos on here along with a great interview on Blancolirio channel. Search Nevada County Airfest Arrivals Live -Dwelle Hawker Seafury and you'll see the interview along with his Seafury he used to race in Reno.
The A10’s Grandfather
The biggest single engine prop to ever take off from a carrier. AND to carry such a load too.!
The fact that they brought out the “Shaft” music is hilariously fitting! 😂
"I hear this cat Skyraider is a bad mother-shut your mouth!"
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 But I’m just talking about SPAD! 🤣🤣
Chic-a chic-a wow.
What a awesome plane. I read somewhere that the Skyraider could lift more weight than the B-17.
Yes, the single engine Skyraider had a heavier maximum external store capacity (7,500 lbs.) than the four engine B-17 Flying Fortress (4,800 lbs.).
And even better, it could loiter over the battlefield in support of the guys on the ground for at least an hour or more;
The navy called them Spads, the Air Force called them Sandy's, but nothing in the flying inventory could supply extended close air support like the Skyraider, people think that the prop planes are to outdated for current combat, I would point at the AC130 aircraft, also any theater of operation that helicopters can operate, propeller driven gunships would also be effective, and a lot cheaper than jets or helicopters.
Even the OV-10 Bronco still sees action here and there to this day! Some modified G variants were used to great success against ISIS, employing the APKWS (Hydra 70 with a mid-body distributed aperture laser guidance fin kit) to minimize collateral damage. Once again props proved to be precise and economic, so in short very efficient. It's also why I personally dislike the A-10 as anything other than a morale booster.
2:05 love the start-up
What a beast. My godfather was USAF FAC in Korea and he loved to watch the "Hun" work over enemy stations. He told me stories about this plane as it skimmed over tree-lines and dropped bombs, rockets and strafing for hours. This plane flew almost 30 years of combat missions for the US. Talk about versatility and durability!
God bless your godfather and thanks for the comment.
What a fantastic aircraft she was, and God bless those talented,brave jocks that pulled the stick on the A-1. 191 were lost in viet nam, 172 in combat. However many ground elements owe their lives to the A-1 Skyraider and crews.
jgrogan02 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jets and helicopters may have gotten all of the press, but I heard great things about this bird!
I worked on the Super Spads at Pleiku in 1967 weapons man that bird could haul some ordnance. Loaded my share of napalm and frag clusters. Hell you name it we loaded it. 1st ACS squadron. Unit moved to NKP we stayed back with 4 planes to hold down the fort Tect offensive in Feb of 68 got real interesting!
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
My father was a A1E pilot on Pleiku and thon so nuet both........Frank Snedden rest in peace. He also did a tour as a B-52 and Phantom pilot.
I was at Pleiku waiting for my pilot when an RVN pilot tried to land an A1E by coming in at an angle to the runway due to heavy ground fire, he put the plane on the ground and then tried to turn toward the runway! He lived, the plane died...
Ralph Craig My father was a A1 pilot at Pleiku...not sure if year could have been 69 to 71 timeframe. Frank Snedden
oh man when that music kicks in you know its gonna be real.
My Dad flew Spads in 'Nam, late 60's, out of #NKP, Thailand. Shot down twice....and still alive.
The Shaft music was dope
Spads are one of my favorite prop jobs .Dad flew steermans to starfighters but always wanted to fly one ...
Man that Wright Cyclone sounds so good
One thing about this airplane was it could take a licking and keep on ticking!
This film had to have been made either in 1971 or shortly after because '71 was when the movie "Shaft" came out.
Phayzyre105 1. 33.
Awesome airplanes!
Amazing pilots, I have fontunant to work on Lyle Sheltons f-8 bear cat. "Rare bear" won several world championships at Reno. He was a sandy pilot. Rip Lyle!
I did not know Lyle flew the A-1. My dad was a pilot in the 1st SOS. I am the nephew of Dwight Thorn, the engine builder for Strega.
What i love about The A1 Sky Raider was..not just the beauty of the aircraft itself but the ability n capability it represents. A1 was really was a flying tank! Fully Armed to the teeth n gum!! it has very strong n sturdy airframe build that enables it withstands such punishment from natures element n operations anywhere from rough,small n short runway airfield..even on dirt road or hi way if it had too..hours n hours of loitering time ability which are very essential n important not just for S.A.R mission,also for Recon,S.A.D n COINS missions too!the most best part was it can be upgraded with latest techs..it was not accident prone, (widow maker) very forgiving, safe n easy aircraft to fly(saves lots off cost n training hours for new pilots)fuel efficient,good flying or operation hours,easy to repair n low cost maintenance which were very important for a small country to have in their airforce like for example the south vietnam airforce to operate at that time. i would love to hv a bunch of fully armed to the teeth n gum A1 in my base as my personal low flight ops fighter-bomber Hahaha..
saw some stationed at pleiku airfield in 1965-66 . they were awesome flying.
massive firepower! awesome pilots!
That music while they arming the raider in the beginning was sick
Tanks for the support in 67,68 VN An Hoa
What a gorgeous bird
Great Film!
Douglas would later develop the Skyraider into the turboprop-powered A2D Skyshark. Unfortunately, it never entered service as the Allison T40 engine that powered it proved unreliable. Besides, Douglas was also at work on the pure-jet-powered F3D/F-10 Skyknight, which proved much better. By Vietnam, US forces were using the Vought A-7 Corsair II.
I ❤ love the Sandy's! Big Chunky lethal flying tanks
thanks
I watched (from another aircraft) as, time after time, "fast movers" were sent out to do tactical strikes against enemy positions in Vietnam. They would show up, take 10 minutes to figure out where the enemy was, drop one or two bombs and then head back to their base to refuel. In other words, they were just about USELESS to accomplish anything of importance. ONLY these 'low and slow" ..."prop" fighters were able to do ANYTHING against the Vietcong and/or North Vietnamese regiments. They had the loiter time to "nail" the location of enemy positions and the armament and TIME to make multiple strikes on them. We should have had MORE of them in Vietnam...and not just for SARS missions.
Did you get to see how the A-7 performed, by any chance? From a technology standpoint and lower speed, the pilot should've been able to engage the enemy more quickly and easily. That is compared to say the common F-4, but I don't know which types you saw of course, perhaps Huns as well.
VAW14 ZAPPERS OUT OF CUBI POINT NAS SUBIC BAY PHILIPPINES WEE THRRE 1965 WITH SPADS DURING OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER PAYING VISITS TO VIET CONG AND HO CHI MIEN TRAIL
DSC announcement brought me here.
Proud to say that's my Pappa at 1:37
The early A-10. Epic
S.O.G. teams were glad when these harbingers of death showed up to cover an extraction for them.
Thanks for posting this. Nice soundtrack!
Brave souls.. Thanks 👍
"From the Army Air Corps you came and to the Army Air Corps you shall return”! General Darden
Sandy just ate his shadow!
Those men gave it all trolling for fire to save downed Thud drivers.
My buddy flew the Spad's- Out of Cambodia for the "Secret War" in 68.
Was the Base Fire Chief at NKP !
Is that the Shaft music in the background?
Music doesn't need to be in everything we watch. Enjoy the calm sometimes.
Holy Smokes ! How many of these beasts were usually sent on a mission ?
4 two high, 2 low
While not a "nice" subject...it is, indeed, impressive AND nice, to see an actual "non-Hollywooded" view of such.
I was told the Spad could...and, would...fly and provide cover in conditions that were impossible for the then-modern jet craft, that because of it's relatively spartan design for the period, it was reliable in most any climatic extreme shown it, as in, less electronics to go haywire. Nowadays? I'd say, no way of course. But, we were still in kind of a "transition period", with good, accurate suppressing fire, I guess one could say?
It could probably still work in counter insurgency. Not very safe against modern threats, so facing people using last gen tech, it could possibly do alright. Of course, a pushed prop may be better for the added protection to engine in the strafe, tricycle gears, more space for sensors, an area for an aerial refueling probe, and better placed cannons. A modern with sensors for aiming, modern situational awareness capabilities, a new prop engine, and possible stol capabilities could be a way to lower operating costs.
If not for the emergence of the A-10, the Skyraider would arguably be the best air-to-ground attack plane ever, IMO
It's pretty fly that they used the theme from Shaft lol
That music!
My Brother-n-law flew a Sandy in Nam...............Loitering was his game...:-)
Ya..Loitering was the name of the game, we marine loved "sandy" (we liked the name sandy..it sounded "cuter" than spad. ) it wasn't weapones it carred that counted but the loitering time...as long as sandy was up there the bad guys kept their heads down in the mud and left us alone to get on with the job!
'
pretty cool with the shaft theme...
Knew a Navy A-1 pilot, Jim Morris; last time I saw him he was flying crop duster helicopters out of Calipatria, California, I worked as a maintenance man/janitor at the airport. He used to live in San Diego, would like to meet and talk to him again
I knew them as Spads.....
That's what my dad called them too.
I'm not sure if ANY battle aircraft ever had as many hardpoints as the A-1...even more than today's battlefield support king, the A-10. What a @#%&load of weapons it could carry.
SUPERB
C-130s were the flying dump trucks in Vietnam. My father flew them there.
More like airborne semi tractor trailers.
Was its capabilities and versatility the template for the A-10 "Wart Hog"?
a heavy weight fighter
throw good deadly punches
The vietnam era A-10
Confused. I thought Sandys had no Gatling guns (0:44). Where did that come from?
Pod mounted .
@@steveb6103the miniguns were mounted on the left stub. A quick burst gave you a good idea where your rockets would go
Wait, these things had revolving MGs fitted too?
TheGoldenCaulk GE 7.62x51mm miniguns
The A-1 had 4 20mm cannons. Two MIGs were downed by them (one using the cannons of 2 A1s and another pulverized by a Zuni rocket).
@@julosx The two that used cannons was the first gun kill of a Mig by another aircraft in the war.
Theme from Shaft!
How’s that sound track,awesome
Any body that says that the IL-2 Shturmovik is a flying tank never seen a fully loaded Douglas Skyraider.
You see this cat Skyraider is a bad mother . . .
Hi any body know of any serving pilots who knew capt Lee minnick 602 nd fighter squadron Sandy pilot 1966 to 1967 if so please get in touch
I only remember Captain Leonard.1967 shut down the missing.602nd fsc
Is this really the Shaft music???
randylucky yes
Who's the black private dick who's the sex machine to all the chicks?
SHAFT!
S. SESTRIC can ya dig it?
Hilary Brust DAMN RIGHT!!!!
''He's a bad muva fu - - - -''
''Watch yo mouf!''
''I'm jus talkin bout Shaft!""
Could they air refuel the A1E?
John Moore no
John Moore no
John Moore , no they didn’t need to, they could loiter for long periods of time. Another reason why they were so effective. They probably used more oil than fuel!
This airframe never had to search for a new role/mission. It could do many more than most. Just build brand new A-1's. Our SpecOps will find many ways and places to use them once again. Why dither with an unknown?
Aye, the Navy would never re-introduce AVGAS onboard ship.
We have the A-10 and we should keep it, upgrade it. Having served in combat (Afgh,Iraq, Africa and around the world) The A-10 kicked ass, saved a lot of lives and scared the hell out of the enemy.
@@michelleahlquist5858 Bless you Ma'am. VMA-AW-224 77-81.
I can bet that Issac Hayes isaac didn't give his approval to use his music!!!!
Now I see why the warthog was called the A-1 plus 0 Cant wait to see what the A-100 is going to look like in the future ;/
imaging this with Hellfire missiles and 30mm bushmasters!
Is the music lick at the very end Lawrence of Arabia?
Grand Prix!
'sandy' bring it in
The A-10 was developed from the OV-10 Bronco used in Veitnam in the 1960s.
If you google the Bronco, minus the two props, and add a slight variation to the tail to allow for the two jet engine exhausts, you'll notice the A-10 shape.
range 2,700 miles awesome
all i a day's work for a Sandy pilot
Why the Shaft theme?
Viet Nam era music.
Why did they use shafts music lol
The more awful the music, the better. Love those Skyraiders. Wish we still had them today.
Anyone place the music right at the end it seems so familiar but cant place it
Ryan C I could be wrong but I think it's music from the movie "Grand Prix".
I knew I had heard it somewhere , I think you are right Well done
If the A1 sky raider is a flying dump truck then the f22 and the f35 r a flying death coffins
the a10 replaced this flying tank...
Second only to Spooky
to the VC ,Raider is evil from the sky
I think it wotked.
OMG. I love the Shaft theme. Cause that plane is one bad mother… shut you mouth. 😁
nice suburban!
Back in the day some military orders were so absurd that in reality they became suicide missions. Recent wars of the past like the civil war or WW1 had troops march right into the line of fire. This tactic dwindled, being last used in Vietnam. With that said, the military sacrificed many lives sending pilots on these outdated A-1's which had high losses, almost 200 lost in combat. They may have a sturdy airframe but were not a match for MiGs or SAMs. All in all the US suffered massive losses of all types of aircrafts during the Vietnam war. Compared to modern warfare, US losses of its air power superiority has been extremely minimal thanks and gladly to a better military strategy and mentality that does not believe in the idea of suicide missions anymore.
Between the Navy and the Air Force, almost 600 F-4 Phantom II's were lost in the Vietnam War to all causes. That was about 1/3 of all the F-4's deployed to Vietnam. 201 A-1's were lost to all causes, not just combat, in the same period in the war, about 20% of the number deployed. Two A-1's shot down two NVA MiG-17's while two A-1's were lost to MiG-17's. Your argument that sending A-1"s into combat in Vietnam was suicide is hardly persuasive.
@@sarjim4381 Ba A just doesn't know WTF they're talking about.Even a short film of what the A 1's mission was still doesn't help the brainless Ba A.
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Who's the PLANE that won't cop out
When there's danger all about?
The A-1 SKYRAIDER won't cop out right on
They say this A-1 SKYRAIDER is one bad mother FUDGER
Shut your mouth
But I'm talkin' 'bout
A-1 SKYRAIDER
Then we can dig it
Its a complicated PLANE
communistjesus I HEAR YA!! CAN YA DIG IT!!! THEN IT'S DUG!!! LOL!
They say that A-1 Skyraider is a bad mother....shut yo' mouth!
Can you dig it?
This video by software . Why ? White and black in US , Europe , UK . . no one can fly any aircraft . Discovered in 2010 . If they did . In VN war must have dogfight . But did not .
by the time of the Vietnam War those planes were out dated!
Hayden Philbert If they we're very effective at there job then they were not outdated!
A versão AD-2 está no WarThunder
Sorry, the 'Shaft' theme took me out of the film. Did you know the drummer says he can play 16 notes on the hi-hat?