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Hi all

just wanted to share these two views of Skyraiders in action on CVS 39 USS Lake Champlain in November 1963...

enjoy !

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Gotta love Skyraiders. Gotta not love Skyraiders with the Higgins boat stapled to their underbellies!
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right.

does this assortment of underwing stores seem more acceptable to you ?

KA-1E 135051 fly-by 1967

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ever see the toilet bomb pic?? an actual toilet mounted to a spad weapons pylon that was dropped over nam as a hoot. it's here on another thread

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Swiss Mustangs wrote:
right.

does this assortment of underwing stores seem more acceptable to you ?

KA-1E 135051 fly-by 1967

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What are those stores?

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In 1956, the Navy suggested that that the AD-5 be converted into a midair refuelling tanker. However, a Douglas study showed that it would be impractical to store a lot of extra internal fuel inside the airframe of the AD-5 because of weight distribution problems. Instead, Douglas engineers came up with an idea of an external fuel storage package containing a 300-gallon tank plus a hydraulic pump, a hydraulically-driven hose reel, and a 50-foot refuelling hose with a drogue. However, this system was very rarely used on the Skyraider

that's one of them....

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marine air wrote:
Gotta love Skyraiders. Gotta not love Skyraiders with the Higgins boat stapled to their underbellies!


That's actually an AEW radar, not a Higgins Boat... or were you being ironic? :lol:

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I don't know what it is about the skyraider, but I like them.

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Martin, yes thanks much better, the KA-1E! Not familiar with them in that role. The Higgins boat remark was a joke, as a few poor B-17's actually had to carry one and the Skyraider is sometimes compared to the 17.
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Those stores are EW types - flare chaff and EW countermeasures

the centreline store is a fuel tank and that is all

If you see other photos they have a sqaured off rear and no hose /drgue thing
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Those stores are EW types - flare chaff and EW countermeasures

the centreline store is a fuel tank and that is all

If you see other photos they have a sqaured off rear and no hose /drgue thing


so it's actually an EA-1F ?

below a photo of EA-1F Skyraider 135018 at Davis Monthan 1981

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and here's a British AEW ship...

Skyraider AEW1 WY967 # 442 FAA 1962

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Interesting Skyraider is that a Hellcat next to it??

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Looks like a TBM, from the ventral
fairing and the tail wheel.

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My guess about why the Skyraider is such a great plane is because of how long she flew and how well she did her job.You cant argue with nor nit-pick on either account.What a beautiful,brutal beast!

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