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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

GIN114- Ginter Books C-9A "Nightingale" C-9B "Skytrain II

The iconic Douglas DC-9 airliner was chosen by the USAF for a aeromedical evacuation and VIP transport aircraft as the C-9A and VC-9C respectively and by the US Navy/USMC as a passenger/cargo...

GIN224 - Ginter Books North American B-45 Tornado

This 264-page book about the North American B-45 is generously illustrated with 267 drawings, 355 photos, of which 15 are color aircraft images, and color drawings of 33 insignia of units which flew...

GIN305 - Ginter Books World Watchers (paperback)

Pages: 308, Size: 8.5 X 11 (inches), Format: Paperback with semi-rigid cover or softbound.Illustrations: 633 mostly color photos, 39 color profiles, 82 patches The lineage of VQ-1's "World Watchers"...

GIN304 - Ginter Books Electronic Aggressors Part Two 1978-2000

A Pictorial History of Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group (FEWSG), Fleet Tactical Readiness Group (FTRG), Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron THIRTY-THREE (VAQ-33), Tactical Electronic Warfare...

GIN303 - Ginter Books Electronic Aggressors Part One 1949-1977

A Pictorial History of Composite Squadron ASW THIRTY-THREE (VC-33), Composite Squadron Night THIRTY-THREE (VC-33), Composite Squadron All Weather THIRTY-THREE (VC-33), Carrier Special Squadron Night...

GIN301 - Ginter Books Black Knights Rule (BKR) 1946-2013

By Angelo Romano137 pagesSoftbound

GIN223 - Ginter Books Douglas C74 Globemaster

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 brought U.S. Army Air Corps strategists to the realization that a new global transport was needed to carry large loads over great distances. The...

GIN222 - Ginter Books Lockheed Xf-90 Penetration Fighter

Created by the famous Lockheed "Skunks Works" and highly publicized at the start of the 1950s, the futuristic XF-90 seemed to epitomize what a supersonic fighter ought to look like. I was one of the...

GIN219 - Ginter Books Republic XF-84H ThunderScreech

The XF-84H was derived from the RF-84F as a supersonic propeller test vehicle driven by an afterburning Allison XT-40 turboprop engine. Two aircraft were built and briefly tested as noise produced by...

GIN216 - Ginter Books United States Air Force in Vietnam

Covers all aircraft used by USAF in that conflict with in-depth first person narratives added. The color pages are all photos, the covers are Lou Drendels paintings. Most photos and the two-paintings...

GIN213 - Ginter Books Vought/Hiller/Ryan XC-142A Tiltwing VSTOL Transport

Air Force Legends Number 213 is a book about the test and development of vertical take off and landing of an aircraft. It has many other aircraft that lead to the development of the XC-142A and lead...

GIN210 - Ginter Books Republic XF-91 Thundercepter

When post-war budget cuts ended many combat aircraft programs, the overriding importance of one of the most promising of these, known as Secret Project Number MX-809 (MX meaning Material,...

GIN209 - Ginter Books P-51H Mustang

The North American Aviation Corporation's series of "Lightweight" Mustangs, the XP-51F, XP51G, XP-51J, and ultimately the P-51H, came as a result of North American's further development of their...

GIN208 - Ginter Books Bell P-59 Airacomet

The Airacomet was the first jet aircraft built for the US Military. As a fighter, the P-59 died in infancy without the opportunity to prove its worth, overtaken by progress for which the P-59 itself...

GIN207 - Ginter Books US Air Force F-86D/L Sabre Dogs PT2

Air Force Legends Number 207 is the second volume in the North American F-86D/K/L series and covers the US Air Force usage of the F-86D/K/Ls. Duncan Curtis has taken on the task of documenting the...

GIN201 - Ginter Books Martin XB-51

This book signals a radical departure from Ginter Books Naval Fighter Series. Previously, Army/Air Force planes were only covered when the aircraft was also in service with the Navy (Naval Fighters...

GIN112 - Ginter Books Grumman F2F/F3F

The early 1930s was a time of great change in the field of military fighter aviation. At the beginning of the decade, the state-of-the-art in fighter manufacture was the use of traditional...