The Skyraider was tough and durable and included extra armor plating around the cockpit to protect the pilot. While the A-1 entered service too late to fly against Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan ...

That’s because the Pentagon needed a plane that could fly low and hover for protracted periods over a battlefield—a niche that jets couldn’t fill. In other words, the A-1 was America’s original Close ...

The bill would name the bridge off of Highway 5 in honor of LCDR Carl J. Woods, whose plane went down in Vietnam.

Expected to replace the ageing, prop-driven A-1 Skyraider, the A-6 actually coexisted ... an unusual configuration inside the cockpit: the pilot and the bombardier/navigator sat side-by-side ...