In a very short Facebook post, Milviz have released some teaser imagesof their A-1H Skyraider for Microsoft Flight Simulator:
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly known as AD Skyraider) is anAmerican single-seat attack aircraft that saw service between the late1940s and early 1980s. The Skyraider had a remarkably long andsuccessful career; it became a piston-powered, propeller-drivenanachronism in the jet age, and was nicknamed "Spad", after the FrenchWorld War I fighter.
It was operated by the United States Navy (USN), the United StatesMarine Corps (USMC), and the United States Air Force (USAF), and alsosaw service with the British Royal Navy, the French Air Force, theRepublic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF), and others. It remained inU.S. service until the early 1970s.
The A-1H variant featured three dive brakes, centerline stationstressed for 3,500 lb (1,600 kg) of ordnance, 30 in (760 mm) indiameter, combination 14 in (360 mm) and 30 in (760 mm) bomb ejectorand low/high altitude bomb director. In total, there 713 A-1H'sbuilt.
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