All The US Navy Combat Jets In History
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Grumman XF5F-1 & XP-50 Skyrocket (Naval Fighters Number Thirty-One)
- ASIN: 0942612310
- ISBN: 0942612310
- Manufacturer: Ginter Books
The Skyrocket story was originally published in the American Aviation Historical Society (AAHS) Journal in 1989.All of the comic book reading public during the 1940's followed the adventures of "Blackhawk" and his mighty men as they conquered the world of evil. Those of us with a mindbent toward things aeronautical knew that it was not "Superman" o... [Read More]
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Convair PB4Y-2/P4Y-2 Privateer (Naval Fighters Number Ninety-three)
- ASIN: 0984611460
- ISBN: 0984611460
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
The Privateer was a heavily armed (6-twin .50 cal. machine gun turrets) four-engine, long range, land-based, patrol bomber developed from the famous B-24/PB4Y-1 Liberator. It was responsible for sinking over 550 Japanese ships and shooting down almost 50 enemy aircraft. It usually operated alone but sometimes with a second Privateer on its missions... [Read More]
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Fighters over the Fleet: Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War
- ASIN: 159114616X
- ISBN: 159114616X
- Brand: US Naval Institute Press
- Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press
Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend. This volume concentrates on the three main advocates of carrier warfare: the Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy.Because radar was not invented until the mid-1930s, fleet air defense was ... [Read More]
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Chance Vought V-173/XF5U-1 (Naval Fighters)
- ASIN: 0942612213
- ISBN: 0942612213
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
The "Flying Pancake", "Flying Flapjack", "Flying Saucer", and "Zimmer's Skimmer" were all names used to describe Charles H. Zimmerman's unorthodox V-173 and XF5U-1 aircraft. Two other descriptions: the world's fastest and slowest-flying airplane and the world's first vertical takeoff and landing airplane, might have been used to describe the XF5U1 ... [Read More]
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On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier
- ASIN: 1621575918
- ISBN: 1621575918
- Brand: REGNERY HISTORY
- Manufacturer: Regnery History
What defended the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and is an essential tool in the fight against terror? Aircraft Carriers. For seventy years, these ships remained a little understood cornerstone of American power. In his latest book, On Wave and Wing , Barrett Tillman sheds light on the history of ... [Read More]
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Grumman F8F Bearcat (Naval Fighters)
- ASIN: 0942612809
- ISBN: 0942612809
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
By the last half of World War II, most new US fighter designs were much heavier and more complex than earlier fighters. When planning a replacement for their successful F6F Hellcat carrier fighter, however, Grumman chose to build as lightweight a design as possible around the most reliable large radial engine. The result was the F8F Bearcat, which ... [Read More]
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McDonnell F3H Demon (Naval Fighters Series Vol 12)
- ASIN: 0942612124
- ISBN: 0942612124
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
The McDonnell F3H Demon is probably the least remembered modern Naval fighter, even though it was our first true all-weather missile fighter. When the weather prevented the agile F8U, F4D and F11F from flying, the Demon could still be launched. A glamorous plane the Demon was not, primarily due to its lack of performance. The F3H remained underpowe... [Read More]
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Vought F8U-3 Crusader III: Super Crusader (Naval Fighters)
- ASIN: 0984611401
- ISBN: 0984611401
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
The Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III was an aircraft developed by Chance Vought as a replacement to the successful F-8 Crusader program and as a competitor to the F-4 Phantom II. Though based in spirit on the F8U-1 and F8U-2, and sharing the older aircraft's designation in the old Navy system, the two aircraft shared few parts.
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Vought SB2U Vindicator (Naval Fighters)
- ASIN: 0999388401
- ISBN: 0999388401
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
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 construction and that of the new all-metal monoplanes that followed. About... [Read More]
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Douglas USN A-4E/F Skyhawk (Naval Fighters)
- ASIN: 0942612515
- ISBN: 0942612515
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
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 were in the F-4 community with 75. A-4 losses, especially in the A-4E, were so heavy at times that... [Read More]
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Naval Fighters Number Twenty-Seven Convair XFY-1 Pogo
- ASIN: 0942612272
- ISBN: 0942612272
- Brand: Brand: Ginter Books
- Manufacturer: Ginter Books
In 1947, both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy sponsored VTOL design studies called project Hummingbird. The rapid development of increasingly powerful powerplants had reached the point where a true VTOL aircraft was in the realm of possibility. The U.S. Navy's firsthand experiences with Japan's Kamikaze taught them the vulnerability of their g... [Read More]
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Grumman XF10F-1 Jaguar Swing-Wing (Naval Fighters)
- ASIN: 0942612264
- ISBN: 0942612264
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
The unusual and innovative swing-wing Jaguar program ended up being a one-airplane project even though, during its development, orders were placed for 112 aircraft. That ship, BuNo 124435, would only be flown by one pilot, Corwin "Corky" Meyer. When the program concluded in 1953, after over a year of flight testing, the flight test example 124435 a... [Read More]
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Topgun Days: Dogfighting, Cheating Death, and Hollywood Glory as One of America's Best Fighter Jocks
- ASIN: 1620871033
- ISBN: 1620871033
- Brand: Skyhorse
- Manufacturer: Skyhorse
Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the cold war, he became the only one of that initial group to rise to become an instructor at the navy's elite Fighter Weapons School. As... [Read More]
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Japanese Naval Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces, 1932-1945
- ASIN: 1906502846
- ISBN: 1906502846
- Brand: Brand: Casemate Publishers
- Manufacturer: Casemate Publishers
The book commences with a comprehensive account of the operations of navy fighter units throughout the period under review. This is followed by individual sections detailing the history and achievements of each unit involved, be it land-based or aircraft carrier-based. A major section then provides biographical details regarding all pilots claiming... [Read More]
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Naval Fighters Number Forty-Eight : Kaiser Fleetwings XBTK-1
- ASIN: 0942612485
- ISBN: 0942612485
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
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 production model and, with the Navy's acceptance of the proposal from the Fleetwings company, the design... [Read More]
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Bell HSL ASW Helicopter (Naval Fighters)
- ASIN: 0942612701
- ISBN: 0942612701
- Brand: Brand: Ginter Books
- Manufacturer: Steve Ginter
The Bell company won a Navy design competition in June 1950 for a helicopter specifically for anti-submarine warfare. This design, Bell Model 61, was the only Bell helicopter using the tandem-rotor layout; it was powered by a 2400 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-50 engine and was intended to carry air-to-surface missiles such as the Fairchild Petrel, as ... [Read More]
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Above Average: Naval Aviation the Hard Way
- ASIN: 1986283097
- ISBN: 1986283097
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
STEPHEN COONTS, NY Times best-selling author of Flight of the Intruder -- “D. D. Smith's personal memoir of his years in naval aviation is more than a ‘I was there’ tale. He captures the myriad of challenges that was Naval Aviation before the Vietnam War. When I arrived in the fleet, D. D. Smith and his compadres were the squadron execs or CO... [Read More]
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First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942
- ASIN: B00C4GUY3G
- Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press
From huddled command conferences to cramped cockpits, John Lundstrom guides readers though the maelstrom of air combat at Guadalcanal in this impressively researched sequel to his earlier study. Picking up the story after Midway, the author presents a scrupulously accurate account of what happened, describing in rich detail the actual planes and pi... [Read More]
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On and Off the Flight Deck: Reflections of a Naval Fighter Pilot in World War II
- ASIN: 1848841957
- ISBN: 1848841957
- Brand: Brand: Pen and Sword
- Manufacturer: Pen and Sword Aviation
Hank Adlam began his naval flying career in 1941, his first operational posting was to the newly formed No. 890 Squadron. The squadron’s first operational role was to protect a convoy sailing from New York and bound for Greenock. Their major task was to protect the ship’s squadron of Fairey Swordfish anti-submarine aircraft and to destroy any l... [Read More]
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Grumman Navy F-111B Swing Wing (Naval fighters No. 41)
- ASIN: 0942612418
- ISBN: 0942612418
- Brand: Brand: Ginter Books
- Manufacturer: Ginter Books
In 1960, both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy were developing requirements for new fighters. The Air Force was planning to replace the F-105 with a long-range, low-level supersonic, all-weather Tactical Strike Fighter to be operated from unpaved runways of 3,000 feet or less in length and capable to transatlantic ferry without refueling. The N... [Read More]
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