The video announcer described the Skyraider II as a “modern powerhouse inspired” by the A-1E Skyraider, which troops called “Spads” during its Cold War-era service — a nod to the wood ...

An A-1E Skyraider of the 1st Air Commando Squadron returns from a bombing mission in January 1968 near Pleiku, South Vietnam. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images) As the fighting in ...

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 ...