The A1 Skyraider was flying from 1945 (in actual service the following year), and lasted until 1973.Doubtful, while the British did have a number of designs for specialist ground attack aircraft, that resembled the WWI Vickers Gun Bus. In that they were single engine pushers, with a heavenly armoured cockpit and fuselage, none of them were even produced as a prototype. And in the end the British and the Americans realised that it was far cheaper to just add bomb/rocket mountings to existing fighters especially once they became more powerful and had cannons as apposed to machine guns fitted. It was only during the Vietnam war that the Americans designed the A-10 Warthog, while at the same time the British looked at a turboprop pusher ground attack aircraft.
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