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Naval Fighters NF125

CHANCE VOUGHT REGULUS II 48-pages, 48 b&w photos, 18-drawings, 5-color photos By Steve Ginter ABOUT THIS BOOK: In a time when most fighters were subsonic and a handful were supersonic Chance Vought was contracted to build a Moch 2, submarine-launched, nu-clear-armed cruise missile. The result was an airframe so fast that the Navy's fastest fighter (also built by Vought), the F8U Crusader, could not keep up with it. The att...

Naval Fighters NF68

Grumman F9F-8T/TF-9J two seat Cougars BACK IN STOCK!!!

Naval Fighters NF124

BOEING XPBB-1 SEA RANGER / LONE RANGER By Steve Ginter ISBN: 979-8-9899509-8-0 32-pages, all b&w, 12-drawings, 79-photos In 1940 the Navy awarded Boeing a contact for the XPBB-1, a large 139.8 foot wing span twin-engine flying boat with performance far superior to the four-engine PB2Y Coronado and the twin-engined PBM Mariner. The airplane was named the "Sea Ranger" and later the "Lone "Ranger" when the project was c...

Naval Fighters NF123

Grumman J4F-1/2 Widgeon/Gosling By Steve Ginter 40-pages, 126 b&w photos, 5-color photos, 18-drawings. ISBN: 979-8-9899509-7-3 Grummans success with its famous JRF/G-21 "Goose" was so great that Grumman saw the need for a less costly, smaller version that targeted smaller companies, executives, celebrities and sportsmen. This became the G-44 "Widgeon". It cost about $30,000, which was 1/2 the price of a "Goose". Th...

Naval Fighters NF122

USN/USMC/USCG/USAAC Loening Amphibian By Steve Ginter All b&w including covers 64-pages, 241 photos, 13 patches, 4 drawings The Loening Amphibians were a unique adaptation of design for a "shoehorn" fuselage bi-plane equiped with retractable landing gear. It could virtually operate from anywhere. First ordered by the Army in 1924, it was quickly ordered by the Navy/Marines and finally by the Coast Guard. It was in fac...

Naval Fighters NF121

Grumman FF/SF Plus G-23 Delfin/Goblin and Prototypes By Richard S. Dann 132 pages (128 B&W, plus 4 color Pages), 363 photos and drawings The Grumman FF-1 and its derivatives, namely the SF-1 and G-23, represent a paradox in naval aircraft design. On one hand, it represented the end of the line for two-seat US Navy fighters in the biplane era. On the other hand, it incorporated relatively new technologies that when brough...

Naval Fighters NF106

Vought SB2U Vindicator by Steve Ginter with Joe Weathers, Jr. 248-pages, 89-color photos, 22-duotone photos, 506 b&w photos and 25-drawings. The Vought SB2U Vindicator Scout Bomber was the Navy's second production carrier monoplane to fly after the Douglas TBD and for a time was the fastest aircraft in the Navy's inventory. The extremely clean aircraft was a unique blend of the old stick-and-rudder fabric covered constru...

Naval Fighters NF306

World Class DIAMONDBACKS. A Pictorial History of Strike Fighter Squadron 102 (VFA-102) by Angelo Romano US NAVY SQUADRON HISTORIES No. 306 ISBN-13: 978-1-7349727-3-3 Soft bound (NF306) Originally designated Fighter Squadron 102 (VF-102), the DIAMONDBACKS of Strike Fighter Squadron 102 (VFA-102) were established on 1 Jul 1955 in Jacksonville, Florida. The first aircraft to carry the distinctive DIAMONDBACK markings was...

Naval Fighters NF38

Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk floatplane

Naval Fighters NF12

McDonnell F3H Demon 150 pages

Naval Fighters NF120

KAMAN SYNCHROPTER HTK-1/TH-43E, HOK-1/OH-43D, HUK-1/UH-43C By Tommy Thomason and Steve Ginter ISBN: 979-8-9899509-4-2 80 pages, 174 B&W photos, 8 color photos, 51 drawjngs, 15 patches In 1945, there were several aircraft companies involved in helicopter design, test and production in America. The smallest and least well financed one had just been incorporated by a 26 year old Charles Kaman to pursue a synchropter de...

Naval Fighters NF303

US NAVY SQUADRON HISTORIES No. 303 Title: Electronic Aggressors Subtitle: US Navy Electronic Threat Environment Squadrons - Part One 1949-1977 218 pages, 544 photos (mostly color), 48 color profiles, 22 patches, 34 tables and graphs. Author: Angelo Romano Short Desc: A Pictorial History of Composite Squadron ASW THIRTY-THREE (VC-33), Composite Squadron Night THIRTY-THREE (VC-33), Composite Squadron All Weather TH...

Naval Fighters NF305

US NAVY SQUADRON HISTORIES - NO. 305 WORLD WATCHERS A Pictorial History of Electronic Countermeasures Squadron ONE (ECMRON-1) and Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron ONE (VQ-1). by Angelo Romano Pages: 304 Size: 8.5 X 11 (inches) Format: Paperback with semi-rigid cover Illustrations: 633 mostly color photos, 39 color profiles, 82 patches Publisher: Ginter Books The lineage of VQ-1's "World Watchers" can be traced bac...

Naval Fighters NFAF229

Douglas XB-42/42A Mixmaster and XB-43 Jetmaster Air Force Legends number 229 ISBN: 979-8-9899509-3-5 88-pages, 182 b&w photos, 3-color, 40 drawings During WWII, the unsolicited Douglas Aircraft proposal for a contra-rotating pusher propeller powered light bomber would become the most unusual and iconic U.S. military aircraft built during the war. Shades of "Buck Rogers" to be sure. Amazingly, no major problems were...

Naval Fighters NF113

Douglas F4D-1 / F-6A Skyray By Nick Williams 256-pages, over 600 b&w photos and drawings, 23-pages of color (86-color photos). The radical tailless F4D Skyray built by Douglas in the early 1950s was the product of flying wing research work originally done by Jack Northrop and Germany's Alexander Lippisch of Me-163 fame. Since no horizontal tail was present, longitudinal and lateral control was maintained by trailing edge "...

Naval Fighters NF119

Curtiss XF15C-1 "Stingaree" 36 b&w pages with color covers, 87 b&w and 4 color photos. During WWII, the Navy ordered two carrier capable composite powered fighters (each equiped with one prop and one jet engine) to counter the land based all jet aircraft being developed by the Germans. The first was the small Ryan FR-1 "Fireball" followed by the much larger Curtiss XF15C-1 "Stingaree" heavy fighter. Three XF15C-1s, BuNos 0...

Naval Fighters NF98

Douglas AD/A-1 Skyraider Part One Covers: Development, Testing, Variants, Test/R&D, CAG, FASRONs, Training Squadrons, Base/Carrier/Air Group/Squadron Hacks and Marine Skyraiders. By Steve Ginter 256-pages, Color Covers, 169 illustrations, 472-photos. The Douglas Skyraider entered fleet service with VA-19A in February 1947 and was retired in 1969. A single engine attack aircraft able to carry more tonnage of bombs tha...

Naval Fighters NF99

Douglas AD/A-1 Skyraider Part Two, U.S. Navy Squadrons. By Steve Ginter. 272-pages, 13-color photos, 589 b&w photos, and 138 patches. The Douglas AD/A-1 Skyraider Part Two covers Skyraider Fleet and Utility squadrons with text on each squadron and photos and squadron patches/insignia when available. Because the Skyraider's service life bridges from post WWII, through the Korean War and into the Vietnam War, the AD/A-1 squadron...

Naval Fighters NF118

USN / USCG / USMC Beech Expeditor JRB / SNB / C-45 1940 through 1972. ISBN: 979-8-9899509-1-1 89-pages, 275 b&w photos, 13 color photos, 30 drawings, 41 patches. limited to 1,000 copies. By Steve Ginter. Over 1,600 "Twin Beech" aircraft were given BuNos and operated by the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. 8-versions were originally built. From the 8-versions, 21-different sub-versions were created which showed the ver...

Naval Fighters NF117

USN / USMC Fairchlid R4Q / C-119 "Packet" / "Flying Boxcar" By Nicholas M. Williams 72-pages, 140 b&w photos, 5 color photos, 22-patches, and 19 drawings. In 1949 the US Navy was looking for a tactical assault transport for its Marine Corps units and arrangements were made to divert 8 off the shelf C-119Bs from the USAF to the USMC. These 8 aircraft and the 31 C-119Cs that followed were designated R4Q-1s. A small nu...

Naval Fighters NF116

Boeing F4B Biplane written by retired Navy Captain Richard S. Dann. With 408 b&w photos and 24 drawings filling its 160-pages. After three years of intensive research, author Richard S. Dann has finally produced the definitive history of the Boeing F4B, the Navy's iconic Golden Age fighting plane. The Boeing F4B, a favorite of pilots who flew it, still draws interest of hobbyists and historians alike, primarily due to the s...

Naval Fighters NFAF228

Northrop F-20 Tigershark By Northrop Test Pilot Paul Metz with Tigershark Voices quoted from 8-other Test Pilots/Engineers. ISBN#979-8-9854726-6-0 144-pages, 296 color photos, 20 b&w photos, and 135 illustrations. The F-20 was conceived as the next evolution of the Fighter for Export (FX), a concept that had been in place for over 50 years and a formalized U.S. government policy for over 25 years. Northrop invested $...

Naval Fighters NF05

North-American T-28 Trojan [T-28A T-28B T028C T-28D]

Naval Fighters NFAF227

North-American YF-93A Penetration Fighter Air Force Legends 227 By William Simone 52-pages, 4-color and 87-b&w photos, with 39 draqwings. North-American's oft-forgotten YF-93A (NA-157) was an advanced version of the F-86A Sabre day fighter designed for the penetration fighter reqirement. It was originally designated the F-86C and was designed around NACA flush inlets and a 8,000 lb thrust J48 afterburning engine with three ...

Naval Fighters NF115

McDONNELL FH-1 PHANTOM 64-pages, perfect bound, color covers, 159-b&w photos, 4-color photos, 25-drawings, 6-insignias. By Steve Ginter The US Navy's first purpose-built carrier jet fighter was the McDonnell FD-1/FH-1 Phantom, first ordered in January 1943. The small elegant aircraft had a long gestation period due to the delay in development of its Westinghouse jet engines. Originally six and even eight small 300 lb...