Squadron Signal Book - TBD Devastator In Action - PREORDER

This brand new book is written by author Dana Bell and features an extensive amount of new research and many never before seen images that Dana is very excited to be able to share in this all new book!

Squadron Signal Book - F-16 Fighting Falcon In Action - PREORDER

Squadron Signal Publications continues it's new book releases from the new Georgia Squadron location with this revised and expanded 80 page full color F-16 Fighting Falcon in Action.  This book is written by author David Doyle. Illustrations are...

Squadron Signal Book - B-29 Superfortress Combat Chronicles

B-29 Superfortress Combat Chronicles. Book by Robert Hilton. Squadron Signal Books. With its pressurized cabins for high-altitude operation, its long range, large bomb capacity, and turbo-supercharged engines, the B-29 Superfortress was the epitome of...

Squadron Signal Book - Spitfire Merlin Variant Walk Around

The iconic design of the legendary British fighter underwent steady upgrades and development before and during WWII, as evidenced by the numerous Marks of Spitfire that were produced. This volume focuses exclusively on the land-based Spitfires that...

GIN115 - Ginter Books FH-1 Phantom Book

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...

P-61 Black Widow : Northrop Night Fighter in WWII Legends of Warfare Book

Schiffer Legends of Warfare B-25 MITCHELL, VOL. 2

Plastic Model Kit - Requires Glue and Paint

US ATTACK AVIATION Air Force / Navy Light Attack Book

Plastic Model Kit - Requires Glue and Paint

Schiffer Legends of Warfare SHORT STIRLING

Plastic Model Kit - Requires Glue and Paint

Schiffer B-26 FLAK-BAIT

Plastic Model Kit - Requires Glue and Paint

Schiffer Legends of Warfare B-25 MITCHELL, VOL. 1

Plastic Model Kit - Requires Glue and Paint

Schiffer Publications The Jolly Rogers 90th Bombarment Group Hardback Book

This full-color facsimile reprint of the actual JOLLY ROGERS war book appears here in a new quality edition. (The following is from the original dust jacket). No group of fliers since the Flying Tigers of China has ever emerged from the war with greater...

Ginter Books - Martin XB-48 Book

In 1944, the Army issued requirements for a jet-propelled medium bomber which eventually spawned four aircraft. These were the North American B-45 (see Air Force Legends 224), Convair XB-46 (see Air Force Legends 221), Boeing B-47, and the Martin XB-48...

Ginter Books - Bell XFM/YFM Airacuda Bomber Destroyer

The Bell XFM-1/YFM-1 Airacuda was the first airplane designed and built by Larry Bell's new Bell Aircraft Corp. (founded in July 1935). This was to be a futuristic and innovative Allison V-1710 powered twin pusher bomber destroyer armed with 37mm canons...

Visual History Consolidated B-36 Peacemaker Book

A Visual History of the Convair B-36 “Peacemaker” Conceived during WWII and first flown on 8 August 1946, seven decades later the Convair B-36 remains the largest bomber in the world. The requirements for the aircraft that became the B-36...

Schiffer Publishing Possum Clover & Hades P-38J 475th Fighter Group WWII

The epic story of one of the highest scoring fighter units in the southwest Pacific. Aces included McGuire, Loisel, MacDonald, Roberts and Bong.

Squadron Signal Book - B-25 Mitchell Detail In Action (136 Pages)

Squadron Signal Publications is proud to present it's first new "Detail In Action" book release from the new Georgia Squadron locatio. The "Detail In Action" series includes all the best parts from the "In Action" and the "Walk Around" series combined...

Squadron Signal Book - F-111 Aardvark In Action

Squadron Signal Publications continues it's new book releases from the new Georgia Squadron location with this revised and expanded 88 page full color F-111 Aardvark in Action.  This book is written by author David Doyle. Illustrations are done by...

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

SHF63498 - Schiffer Twin Mustang F-82 Book

Developed during the Second World War, but too late to see combat, the Twin Mustang was created by the engineering team at North American Aviation to provide long-range escort for larger, slow bombers. With the outbreak of the Korean Conflict, the Twin...

SHF363405 - Schiffer AV-8B Harrier II Book

The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II"vertical/short takeoff and landing (VSTOL)"is the US Marine Corps' current frontline close-air-support aircraft. A variant of the famed British Aerospace Harrier II, the AV-8B is noted for its ability to hover in...