Douglas A-1 Skyraider Ideas and Inspiration

[GTX_Admin]

Hi folks,

A thread dedicated to your "Able Dog" Douglas A-1 Skyraider Ideas and Inspiration.

To start with, one that just popped into my mind...a Free Poland Skyraider.  Don't ask me how or why, but I just have an image of a Skyraider in Polish markings. :yarr:

Regards,

Greg

[GTX_Admin]

A different sort of turbo-propped Skyraider:



Regards,

Greg

[Maverick]

To start with, one that just popped into my mind...a Free Poland Skyraider.  Don't ask me how or why, but I just have an image of a Skyraider in Polish markings. :yarr:

Mayhaps because of this:



Regards,

John

[Jeffry Fontaine]

A different sort of turbo-propped Skyraider:

Depending on the scale for your hybrid, that could become a very expensive project.  Still looks reasonably possible to mate the front of the Wyvern to a Skyraider and still have enough room in the fuselage for the exhaust to vent somewhere near the dive brakes. 

Of course the question now is what would the inverse of your Wyvern/Skyraider look like?  Using the Skyraider engine/propeller on the Wyvern fuselage.

[sequoiaranger]

I did this tribute build a while back: The Douglas Decimator, precursor to the Skyraider, with a Douglas TBD cockpit/canopy and painted like a Midway torpedo bomber in June 1944 at the Philippine Sea battle. The three crewmembers of the original 8-T-1 get to wreak revenge with this three-torpedo monster. (Jay Manning, the gunner killed at Midway, is represented by a Navy blanket soaked in his blood.) As they did at Midway, extra fake gunports are painted on the wings. My Decimator has the 5" rocket guns tested on some Skyraiders as well as two 20-mm wing cannon. "Bert" Earnest (now commander of the new CV-10 Hornet's air group) is piloting it, and Harry Ferrier is manning the twin .50 cals.

[Cliffy B]

One word; FLOATPLANE!!!



Had to bring back this one.  I know we've all seen it on the net before but its too good not re-post.

[ChernayaAkula]

A different sort of turbo-propped Skyraider:

Whoa, look at that! Combining parts of two aircraft that, as cool as they were, looked like they both hit a branch or two when falling out of the ugly tree and making something utterly awesome out of them!

And as big as the Skyraider was, you could easily make it a tandem-twin seater. And maybe some big old EO turret in the belly to make it a Vietnam trail interdictor.

[Stargazer2006]

One word; FLOATPLANE!!!
Had to bring back this one.  I know we've all seen it on the net before but its too good not re-post.

Well, I for one hadn't... and it's absolutely AWESOME!!
Paint and decals leave something to be desired but the concept is brilliant.

[GTX_Admin]

How about a A-1 with fixed landing gear in Spats or trousers?

How about a bi-plane variant...

...maybe I shouldn't post ideas whilst drinking...

[Stargazer2006]

How about a A-1 with fixed landing gear in Spats or trousers?

How about a bi-plane variant...

...maybe I shouldn't post ideas whilst drinking...

Hey, admin, I love it when you drink!!

[Cliffy B]

Well they did earn the nickname of "SPAD" so a bi-plane and/or retro finish would suite them well.

[sequoiaranger]

Yeah! Make one with those white-centered American cocades from the First World War!!

[Weaver]

Since I bought a Revellogram 1/72nd AD-5 with the intention of nicking the 4-seater canopy for something else, I intend (one day) to use the rest of it as a "pimped" open-topped version, with the interior from a German staff car, exposed and chromed engine, fat tires etc....

[GTX_Admin]

How about a floatplane version?

[jcf]

Incorporate the engine installation/propeller system of the D-557C turboprop project
but retain the canopy arrangement of the AD/A-1 series.

[ysi_maniac]

With Allison V.3420. Suggested by Evan

[ysi_maniac]

Tricycles

[Daryl J.]

South American markings, heavily faded.   Nape tanks whereever possible and used for burning coca fields in the early war against drugs.

[GTX_Admin]

Oh yeah!  Love the idea of some Sth American A-1s.  Maybe updated later in their lives with something such as a PT6C.

[raafif]

 

[GTX_Admin]

How about a twinned version ala F-82?

[raafif]

How about a twinned version ala F-82?

I can do better but not as fast

[GTX_Admin]

 :)

[Kerick]

I love the twin Skyraider! After all the money the Marine Corp has spent on the V-22 could you see their faces if they had to use something that even looked like an old Skyraider to escort it? I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that meeting!
Who makes the best 1/72nd kit, I may just have to build it.

[Diavel]

Here is a couple of Skyraider based aircraft I did a few years back
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,26932.0.html
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,31435.0.html
The first one is a STOL, clandestine insertion/extraction aircraft, the second a butt ugly electronic surveillance aircraft.
I have another 4 seater in the stash waiting to have a Gannet engine and props put on it, it will probably be a transport aircraft or a forward air control bird.
Chris.