Ginter Books - Consolidated-Vultee XB-46

The Consolidated Vultee (Convair) XB-46 was a four-jet medium bomber built to a 1944 USAAF requirement. It was the largest of the four different bombers built to this requirement. The other three were the North American XB-45, the Boeing XB-47 and the...

Ginter Books - Lockheed F-94 Starfire

The F-94 was developed from the Lockheed TF-80C/T-33 two seat trainer version of the famed P/F-80 Shooting Star. It was redesigned around a afterburning engine and a Hughes nose mounted radar system to become a interim all-weather night fighter until...

Ginter Books - Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

The Curtiss XP-55 Ascender was a tailless swept-wing WWII pusher fighter design born out by the USAAC 1940 fighter competition. The USAAC was looking for a fighter to counter the threat of the German Bf-109 and the Japanese Zero and replace the obsolete...

Ginter Books - Consolidated Vultee XP-81

Consolidated Vultee XP-81 first Air Corp's fighter designed around two gas turbine engines. This was the USAF answer to Ryan Fireball.

Ginter Books - North American F-86H Sabre Hog

The F-86 Sabre is well know for its success during the Korean conflict. The F-86H was built in relatively small numbers (475), its service with front line squadrons of the USAF was brief but it had a long service with the Air National Guard. It service...

Ginter Books - F-86 D/K/L /\NG/Foreign

Air Force Legends Number 212 is the third volume in the North American F-86D/K/L Sabre Dog series and covers Air National Guard and foreign usage of the F-86D/K/Ls. Volume two, Air Force Legends Number two, covered US Air Force F-86D/L operators. Volume...

Ginter Books - Douglas C-124 Globemaster II

The answer to a need for larger and faster commercial and military airlifters was provided by, among others, the Douglas aircraft company with its military C-74 and C-124 cargo planes. The C-124 evolved from an earlier Douglas design, the C-74...

Ginter Books - McDonnell XF-88 VOODOO

A silver streak flashes over the Air Force Base at Muroc, California. The slim, shark-bellied McDonnell XF-88 is unveiled as another advance in America's air mastery. The twin-jet penetration fighter is capable of operating deep inside enemy...

Ginter Books - Chance Vought F7U-1 Cutlass

In 1946, the Navy embarked on the development of the Chance Vought F7U-1 Cutlass, a high-performance, carrier-based jet fighter that would be equal, if not superior, to any land-based fighter. It was tailless for compactness and weight reduction and...

Ginter Books - McDonnell F2H-3/4 Big Banjo

One of the first aircraft Edward Heinemann designed Single-seat all-weather fighter. The F2H-3 was the last significant alteration. The fuselage was extended by 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m) to increase internal fuel load to 1,102 gal (4,172 l). The detachable...

Ginter Books - Curtiss SOC Seagull

The Curtiss SOC Seagull was a United States single-engine scout observation biplane aircraft, designed by Alexander Solla of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation for the United States Navy. The aircraft served on battleships and cruisers in a seaplane...

Ginter Books - Grumman JF/J2F Duck

The JF/J2F "Duck" was one of those military workhorses moving around in the background before and during WWII which did a tremendous job but never got the publicity of its' more glamorous teammates. Some said the Duck could be more aptly named the "Ugly...

Ginter Books - Lockheed R6O/R6V Constitution

The Lockheed R6V Constitution was a large, propeller-driven, double-decker transport aircraft developed in the 1940s by Lockheed as a long-range, high capacity transport and airliner for the U.S. Navy. The first time I saw this aircraft was in a photo of...

Ginter Books - Vought TA-7C/EA-7L, A-7K Twosair

In 1972, Vought modified the first TF-41-powered A-7E (BuNo 156801) as a tandem, two-seat combat trainer demonstrator. The two-seater flew for the first time on August 19, 1972, piloted by John Konrad. After demonstrating the two-seat Corsair II at...

Ginter Books - Curtiss XBTC-2 Eggbeater

Curtiss Model 98 XBTC-2 was designed for a request for a single seat dive/torpedo bomber in 1942. A Wright R 3350 with a four bladed prop should power the -1, a P&W R-4360 with 3-bladed contra props the -2. Work on both variants was slow, to other...

Ginter Books - Bell HSL Helicopter

Tenco TT-1 Pinto was nick-named "Tinker Toy developed as a private venture, the Temco Pinto primary jet trainer made its first flight March 26, 1956. The navy ordered 14 as TT-1 to conduct a full-scale study on the feasibility of using a jet aircraft for...

Ginter Books - USN/USMC Single-Seat F9F Cougar Squadrons

This book has all the Squadron and their history in the USN, USMC and USNR. It has the history, photos, patch (crest) and the ships and the shore stations they served. With photos of the way they were painted and stores. Also photos of the first time 4...

Ginter Books - Grumman F9F-6P/8P Photo-Cougar

Next to the helicopter the photo aircraft are among the less glamorous aircraft abroad ship but are some of the most important because with out them the ship would be blind. F9F-6P/8P photo Cougar replaced the F9F-5P photo Panther in two Navy and 2 USMC...

Ginter Books - Boeing XF8B-I

The F/A 18 Hornet was not the first Naval Aircraft designed to meet all the Navy needs. The XF8B-1 was another Boeing called it the "Five-in-one" fighter (fighter, interceptor, dive bomber, torpedo or horizontal bomber). This aircraft had the ability of...

Ginter Books - Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket

Ginter Books - Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak

"Crimson test Tube", "Supersonic Test Tube" and "Flying Stove Pipe" were just some of the nicknames bestowed upon the D-558-1 over the years. Skystreak was the popular name given by the Douglas Aircraft Company. The Skystreak, sponsored by the U.S. Navy...

Ginter Books - Douglas A-4E/FB USN Skyhawk

The A-4 Skyhawk was the workhorse of the Vietnam War. It flew more strike missions than any other Navy aircraft and its losses in combat amounted to 37% of all Navy combat losses. The Navy lost 195 A-4s out of 530 total losses. The next highest losses...

Ginter Books - Kaier Fleetwings XBTK-1

The Kaiser Fleetwings XBTK-1 was initially designed to meet a 1943 Navy requirement for a "single-seat carrier based high performance dive bomber." As was the normal war-time practice, design studies were requested from companies without a major...

Ginter Books - Grumman F11F-1F Supertiger

The J79 powered Mach 2 Supertiger derivative of the F-11F was developed into a world class performer and was marketed as such. It impressed the foreign aviators who tested it so much that it became their first choice. That is until the...

Ginter Books - Grumman F11F Tiger

The full story of the Grumman Tiger and Super Tiger has only been told in part by non-Grumman aviation buffs and historians who wrote from second or third-hand information. Although it is over forty years later, this compendium has been written and...

Ginter Books - Curtiss SC-1/2 Seahawk

Ginter Books - Smokin' Tigers, RVAH-I

On 1 Nov 1955, Heavy Attack Squadron ONE (HATRON ONE or VAH-1) was established and temporarily based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida. On the same day, CDR P.F. Stevens assumed the command of the squadron. He was a highly decorated...

Ginter Books - VQ-2 From Bats to Rangers

Ginter Books - Douglas F4D-1/F-6A Skyray

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...

Ginter Books - Grumman S2F/S-2 Tracker Part 1

The Grumman S2F (S-2) was developed to meet a specific mission requirement, carrier-based antisubmarine warfare. It proved to be so useful and adaptable that it is still in military and civil service more than 60 years after it first flew in December...

Ginter Books - Blue Goose Command Aircraft 1911-1961

This book covers US Naval Aviation from its beginnings in 1911 until 1961 through the interesting and some times colorful "Blue Goose" or Command Aircraft. "Blue Goose" refers to a color scheme that developed for these aircraft in the 1930s. Command...

Ginter Books - First and Foremost Carrier Air Wing One Part Two 1957-1972

216 color and 208 b/w photos, 48 color illustrations - 46 unit insignia - 136 pages - Soft back 21.0 x 29.7 cm - A4 size - Weight 0.80 kg - Exhaustive English text and sheets

CWP42 - Classic Warships Pictorial USS Fletcher

CWP50 - Classic Warships Pictorial USS Enterprise CV-6 Volume 1

CWP46 - Classic Warships Pictorial USS New Jersey BB-62

CWP49 - Classic Warships Pictorial, German Battleships of WWII - Vol. 2

WP49 German Battleships of WWII  Vol. 2by Steve WiperThis second volume on the four German battleships of the Second World War period covers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Bismarck and Tirpitz from early 1939 through to the sinking of Bismarck in May 1941...

CWP48 - Classic Warships Pictorial, German Battleships 1909-1919

WP48 German Battleships 1909-1919by Steve WiperThis volume is a photographic history of the key classes of the “Dreadnought” type battleships of the “Kaiser’s Navy,” also known as the Imperial German Navy, from the Nassau,...

CWP47 - Classic Warships Pictorial, German Battlecruisers 1910-1919

Warship Pictorial 47 - German Battlecruisers 1910-1919by Steve WiperThe German "Battle-Cruiser," originally known as the "Large Cruiser," was the final evolution of the Armored Cruiser. The Imperial German Navy built a smaller number of these warships...

CWP45 - Classic Warships Pictorial, Square Bridge Fletcher

Warship Pictorial 45- Square Bridge Fletcherby Rick DavisPictorial format softbound book, 72 pages, 5 color images, 126 B & W images about the "Square Bridge" variation of the US Navy Fletcher class destroyers from the Second World War period. This...

CWP44 - Classic Warships Pictorial, Yorktown CV-5

Classic Warships has produced the 44th in a series of warship pictorial books keeping with the naval sea power theme. Steve Wiper provides a photographic history of the legendary USS Yorktown CV-5 of the Coral Sea and Midway battles.  This book...

CWP43 - Classic Warships Pictorial, Alaska Class Cruisers

This book features 72 pages with over 65 images - including six in color - of these handsome ships. The book is laid out familiar Classic Warship fashion, with a short section on the history of the class followed by the photographs.  There are less...

CWP41 - Classic Warships Pictorial, USS Midway CV-41

The Classic Warships's latest Warship Pictorial is #41 USS Midway CV-41. Authored by CDR Pete Clayton, USN, this edition is different than the other 40 works in this series. This book has fewer full-page images than usual, and considerably more...

CWP40 - Classic Warships Pictorial, USS Independence CVL-22

Classic Warships gives us the USS Independence CVL-22 , this time Steve Wiper introduces us to a new format with his books and just like the new P-40 Warhawk book, he gives us colorized pictures and ship profiles on the inside of both covers, front and...

CWP39 - Classic Warships Pictorial, German Battleships 1939-1945

Warship Pictorial #39 German Battleships 1939-1945German Battleships of the Second World War period has long been the fascination of many "Battleship" enthusiasts, but strangely enough, there has never been a photo-history book published on the topic.....

CWP38 - Classic Warships Pictorial, IJN Nagato Class Battleships

This Classic Warships Pictorial features the Imperial Japanese Navy Nagato Class Battleships.  This is the only English language photo style book published about the Nagato Class Battleships.  This very handy reference pictorial book is loaded...

CWP37 - Classic Warships Pictorial, Regia Marina Roma

The Classic Warships's series Warship Pictorial is out with the latest volume- #37!- on the Italian Battleship RM (Regia Marina) Roma. As with previous volumes, this book follows the standard format- a textual general history, followed by...

CWP36 - Classic Warships Pictorial, Kreigsmarine Scharnhorst

Classic Warships Pictorial #36 concerns the Deutsche Kriegsmarine Scharnhorst. This 72 page volume has the usual excellent coverage we have learned to expect, with many rarely seen photos, close up shots, and even some color images. The book not only has...

CWP33 - Classic Warships Pictorial, USS Lexington CV-2

This Classic Warships Pictorial of the Lexington is an in-depth look at the Lexington during her 1937 thru 1942 career. This Lexington Pictorial features new photos that have been found. As always they are reproduced with the maximum amount of detail...

CWP32 - Classic Warships Pictorial, South Dakota Class Battleships

The South Dakota class consisted of 4 ships build prior to, and during World War Two: South Dakota Massachusetts Alabama Indiana All four served during the war, and two still remain as memorials (Massachusetts and Alabama). South Dakota also a museum...

CWP31 - Classic Warships Pictorial, USS Buchanan DD-484

This Classic Warships Pictorial features the USS Buchanan DD-484. This book has many images that have not been published before. Like the other books, this one includes some history of the ship and lots of close up detail views. Similar sister ships are...

CWP30 - Classic Warships Pictorial, IJN Takao Class Cruisers

This Classic Warships Pictorial by Steve Wiper covers the Japanese Takao class cruisers of WW2. The book features stunning photos, and drawings of the IJN cruisers from their construction to their end. The photos are a mix of war time photos and detail...

CWP10 - Classic Warships Pictorial, Indianapolis & Portland

This "photo album" is full of detailed photographs that trace the lives of the two ships through their prewar years to their demise. The photographs are high quality and arranged from the earliest images to the last. There is a short history of...