A-1 Skyraider USAFA 1 Skyraider airplane model. In the years following the Korean War, Skyraiders continued to serve the fleet in multiple roles, the roar of their engines increasingly surrounded by the thunder of jets on carrier decks. Some AD pilots trained for the possibility of nuclear war, flying so called Sandblower missions, long range flights to deliver nuclear bombs at low altitude that involved such an extended amount of time in the cockpit that aviators