A1 Skyraider
A1-Skyraider
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly designated AD before the 1962 unification of Navy and Air Force designations) is an American single-seat attack aircraft in service from 1946 to the early 1980s, which served during the Korean War and Vietnam War. The Skyraider had an unusually long career, remaining in front-line service well into the Jet Age
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top Speed
90 m/s
Weight
~2300kg
Range
200 something kilometres at 50% throttle
Cost
~51.000
weapons
4 light autocannons, 6 250lbs bombs, 5 500lbs bomb, 16 Rockets
Features:
- A lot of offensive firepower
- very simple controls
- Self stabilization
- Radio
- Good handling at high speeds
- Mouse aim
How to start and take off:
on ground:
- enable the breaker to the left side of the cockpit
- enable the engine master switch
- Increase Prop-Feathering to 1
- Throttle up to 1 to start the engine
- just hold down "S" to take off, it will do the rest automatically
- after takeoff close canopy
- retract landing gear
IMPORTANT NOTES
- The aircrafts fuselage cant withstand too many hits, but in some cases it can survive quite some damage
- it can act sluggish, be carefull when diving and pull up before its too late