Douglas A-1 Skyraider
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Oct 10, 2026
TonyHOST
Jet-propelled craft used test rigs for low speed.
TonyHOST
Hover trials, think of the F-one-oh-six or even experimental helicopters like the A1 Skyraider with its massive rotors and exhaust flare.
TonyHOST
An experienced mechanic like Michalak could have recognized a propeller configuration he'd seen in training manuals or maintenance logs.
TonyHOST
Another angle that enters the conversation is the idea of a human voice that sounded almost alien.
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John MollisonGUEST
listeners forever but there's one story I developed a relationship with an A-1 Skyraider pilot, Vietnam War veteran, and his name is Rich Hall.
John MollisonGUEST
And Rich trusted me, but his wife didn't.
John MollisonGUEST
And so I'm interviewing Rich, and again, to get to know the family.
SamHOST
So they had a few, you know, North Korean People's Army Air Force...
SamHOST
Fighters It's a Yak-9P I think That I've got on screen at the moment They had a La-11 They had a MiG-15 of course And they had a few downed UN forces So it's a Skyraider US Skyraider They had various other bits and bobs Aviation wise One of the highlights of the trip Was visiting the Pyongyang Microlighting Club Which was pretty brand new at the time I think it was literally less than a year old And I think it was the day we were meant to actually visit the Demilitarized Zone, but it was cancelled for some reason.
SamHOST
So instead, they took us to the Pyongyang Microlighting Club.
SamHOST
And it was like they built this whole massive terminal for it.
Tim KinsellaHOST
They flew more than seventy strikes against the guns around him.
Tim KinsellaHOST
Twenty aircraft were damaged and an A-1 Skyraider was shot down.
Tim KinsellaHOST
Its pilot, thankfully, was picked up.
Tim KinsellaHOST
In the late afternoon, a Jolly Green helicopter got directly over Sijan and lowered its jungle penetrator, which is a weighted seat on the end of a rescue hoist cable.
Scott KlaersHOST
It would be great.
Scott KlaersHOST
I mean, we do have a guy in town here that we're trying to get on that did fly Sky Raiders in Vietnam.
Scott KlaersHOST
And it would be really pretty cool to get the two of them to sit down and get perspective from the air and then from the ground.
Scott KlaersHOST
Yeah.
Terry DunnHOST
Yeah.
Fitz WalkerHOST
This is a, um, this is a actual turbine powered, uh, Skyraider II, similar to one I built, but this guy shoved a, a 45 s- size turbo prop in there.
Fitz WalkerHOST
He says it flies really good.
Fitz WalkerHOST
Uh, so there was, there was a bunch of these as a matter of fact.
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Terry DunnHOST
Yep.
Terry DunnHOST
Tell me more.
Fitz WalkerHOST
So I had two pl- I brought my Skyraider two out, and I brought a new plane, a, uh, Tucano that, uh, is gonna be over by Legend Hobby, all fiberglass.
Fitz WalkerHOST
And so they're un- I'm sitting there, uh, on, on the first day...
Jack AshmoreGUEST
That's when we went into what we call service type.
Jack AshmoreGUEST
That's when I went into the AD Skyraider it was called.
Jack AshmoreGUEST
I was thinking about going multi-engine when I went to advanced training went out at Corpus.
Jack AshmoreGUEST
But I did so well on carrier qualifications when I was at basic in the old SNJ that a guy said, "You're not about to go multi-engine.
Vincent AielloHOST
You're doing this, 'cause you're too good." [laughs] Well, do you have any fun stories-
Jack AshmoreGUEST
Yeah, we-
Vincent AielloHOST
... from flying the AD Skyraider?
Jack AshmoreGUEST
Yeah, it's, uh...
Scott KlaersHOST
look at your guys is it completely different it makes sense you know yeah yeah that one you
Brandon DeuelGUEST
know and you can see they were moving into those later later world war ii you know, early Korean War type design theories, you know, where you see a lot of the, well, the Sky Raider is a good example where that was kind of designed to be a jet pilot trainer, but it was still a piston engine aircraft.
Brandon DeuelGUEST
But the consoles and everything, the concepts laid out in there are more to a, or not, sorry, not Skyraider, T28, sorry.
Brandon DeuelGUEST
T28.