Ginter Books

-Covers USN/USAF/foreign service variants -175 color & B&W profiles/paint schemes/drawings -66 pages

Includes 57 B&W photos, drawings, technical data and specification. 34 pages.

Written by Steve Ginter 275+ photos / 6 color/and more 150 pages

By Steve Ginter & Nick Williams114 pagesSoftbound

In 1953, the mainstay of carrier-based anti-submarine warfare (ASW) forces in the Navy were represented by a pair of Grumman AF-2W and AF-2S Guardians flying as a hunter-killer team and operating from an escort carrier of the Commencement...

The North American AJ "Savage" came into being as a direct result of the greatest Navy and Government controversy since Billy Mitchell and the Battleships. This controversy was over the future Nuclear strike capabilities of the Navy, if any. 128...

The unusual and innovative swing-wing Jaguar program ended up being a one airplane project even though during its development, orders were placed for one hundred and twelve aircraft. That ship, BuNo 124435, would only be flown by one pilot, Corwin...

It was no secret to the U.S. Navy that jet and rocket aircraft were being developed in Europe, and that once fully developed, would be of superior performance than piston engine aircraft. Because of these facts, the Navy initiated investigations...

Bob Kowalski continues the saga of the bomber Torpedo (BT) program and the similar Scout Bomber (SB) program with the obscure story of the Douglas XSB2D-1 and BTD-1 "Destroyer". The United States was still at peace when the Navy issued a...

By Bob Kowalski49 pagesSoftbound

For more than two years prior to the Navy issuing RFP (Request for Proposal) in 1964, Convair engineers had been evaluating designs for use in the limited war and counter-insurgency arenas. These designs were evaluated by many military and civilian...

Written by Test Pilot Corky Meyer 200 B&W photos 145 pages

Lockheed had an early lock on military jet trainer production in the United States with its very successful two-seat derivative of the P-80/F-80 Shooting Star, the T-33A/TV-2. As good as the T-Bird was, Lockheed believed a much more capable trainer...

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...

Item #46

In early 1937, Curtiss and Vought, the Navy's two pre-war suppliers of fleet catapult scout floatplanes, were asked to submit bids for a high-speed replacement of the very successful SOC Seagull series. Navy design number 403 called for a mid-wing...

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...

Written by Steve Ginter  Development and Squadron histories Over 300 photos & 30 drawings The ultimate Navy Skyhawk book on the market All Squadron patches shown

USMC/USMCR/USNR Douglas A-4A/B Skyhawks is he companion volume to Naval Fighters Number Forty-Nine, the Douglas A-4A/B Skyhawk in Navy Service. The Navy volume contains 61 pages of development, aircraft description details and drawings, that pertain...

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...

Douglas A-4 E/F Skyhawks in Marine Service is the companion volume to Naval Fighters Number Fifty-One. Douglas A-4 E/F Skyhawks In Navy Service. The Navy volume contains 41 pages of development, aircraft description details and drawings, as well as...

 includes 121 pages covers the A-4M, A-4N, A-4AR, A-4KU and the AF-1

By Scott Libis65 pagesSoftbound

"Comic book stuff" was the typical response on one would draw in 1938 when the subject of rocket propulsion came up. To most, the subject of rocket power conjured up images of Buck Rogers and the Saturday afternoon matinee. Rocketry was the flight...

This was one of the first aircraft used as a target drone. This book explains the original concept outlining the need for a remote controlled aircraft and how that concept evolved into the QF-86 program. Lots of photographs from both inside and...

Includes Blue Angels, Reserves, and Argentina Volume two of the Panther story focuses on the usage of the aircraft by the United States Marines. In Korea the F9F, like its propeller-driven counterparts (AD Skyraiders and F-4U Corsairs), were...

Written by Steve Ginter History, patches & 375 photos of 67 Navy panther units

By Bob Kowalskis73 pagesSoftbound

Written by Corky Meyer

* Written by Steve Ginter * 80 pages

The two seat Grumman Cougar was one of the first swept-wing trainers to be put into service with the Navy and was also one of the first two seat version of a fleet fighter. Before this the new pilots were just given a lot of ground training and just...

168 pages with several black & white photos

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 &...

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192 pages with plenty of black & white photos

168 pages with plenty of black & white photos

By Steve Ginter

Written by Bob Kowalski 41 pages Many photos

By Steve Ginter 88 pages Softbound

By Capt Richard Hoffman USN Ret 65 pages Softbound

By Steve Ginter and Corwin Corky Meyers216 pagesSoftbound

By Tommy Thomason 56 pages

By Steve Ginter 160 pages Softbound

By Steve Ginter 72 pages Softbound

By Steve Ginter 128 pages Softbound

By Capt Richard Hoffman USN (Ret)192 pagesSoftbound

By Steve Ginter192 pagesSoftbound

By Steve Ginter192 pagesSoftbound

By Steve Ginter128 pagesSoftbound

By Steve Ginter88 pagesSoftbound

By Steve Ginter176 pagesSoftbound

By Steve Ginter & Corwin Meyer225 pagesSoftbound

By Tommy Thomason129 pagesSoftbound

By Steve Ginter137 pagesSoftboundThe Super Gooney was used as a transport, VIP carrier, station hack, a trainer with VT-29, and its usage in Antarctica with VX-6 from 1952 into the 1980s.

By Steve Ginter137 pagesSoftboundThe book begins with a 24-page in depth review of the origins of the patrol flying boat covering most Curtiss boats (except the NC boats), the Naval Aircraft Factory PN boats and their derivatives (Douglas PD-1, Keystone...

By Steve GinterSoftboundThe Martin PBM Mariner flying boat with its distinctive gull wing was proposed to the Navy in 1937 as a replacement for the very successful Consolidared PBY. The major differences were: it was to be a true blue water, open...

By Steve GinterSoftbound Covers: Development, Testing, Variants, Test/R&D, CAG, FASRONs, Training Squadrons, Base/Carrier/Air Group/Squadron Hacks and Marine Skyraiders. The Douglas Skyraider entered fleet service with VA-19A in February 1947 and was...

By Steve GinterSoftbound 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,...

By William Riley & Thomas DollSoftbound 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...

By Robert J Kowalski and Tommy H. ThomasonSoftbound 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...

Douglas Siegfried, Tailhook Association Archivist and former S-2 pilot, and Steve GinterSoftbound The book covers the operational history of the aircraft in squadron service including the reserves and training squadrons and as a squadron utility and...

By Steve Ginter; 100-pages, 3 color and 232 b&w photos, 8 drawings 53 S-43/JRS-1 "Baby Clippers" were produced (31 civil, 15 Navy, 2 Marine, and 5 USAAC). The book covers all users including civilian and post war users. 10 of the Navy's JRS-1s were...

By Richard S. Dann & Steve Ginter; 176-pages, 391 B&W photos, 22 illustrations This comprehensive monograph covers the entire history of Brewster's much maligned Buffalo fighter aircraft. The book starts out with the background of the Brewster...

By Steve Ginter; 241-pages, 4-color cover images, 72 drawings, and 511 b&w photos The Navy's acquisition of the B-24D as a long range patrol bomber/sub hunter (PB4Y-1) and as a long range photo recon platform (PB4Y-1P) marked a major shift in patrol...

By Steve Ginter and Joe Weathers Jr; 249-pages

By Gunther Winkle The USMC Deuce was originally designed as a heavy-lift assault helicopter capable of delivering 36 combat troops or equipment (up to two jeeps or field artillery) from ship to shore. It was quickly adapted by the Army which...

By Tommy H Thomason In late 1953, McDonnell Aircraft made an unsolicited proposal to the U.S. Navy for a big, carrier-based, supersonic, "All-Weather Attack Fighter". After not much more than a cursory review, it was rejected. That inauspicious...

By Steve Ginter; 193-pages, 70-illustrations, 389 b&w photos, and 50-color photos Book six in the Naval Fighter Series on the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk covers the A-4C/L in Navy service. It covers the technical aspects of these aircraft and squadron...

By Steve Ginter; 48-pages, 148 b&w photos, 11 color photos This book covers the squadron histories of the 23-Marine units that flew the A-4C/L Skyhawk in the 1960s and 1970s. This is the 7th book in the A-4 Skyhawk series. The others are: number...

By Bob Kowalski; 152-pages, 326 b&w photos, 4-color photos, 48-drawings, and 15-squadron insignias "Able Mable", the Martin AM-1/1Q Mauler, was the product of a 1943 Navy contract for two prototype bomber torpedo (BT) planes. Two other contractors,...

By Richard Dann; 192-pages, over 440 photos, including 34 color photos, many not previously published. In addition, 39 illustrations and line drawings are included. The early 1930s was a time of great change in the field of military fighter aviation...

By Nick Williams 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,...

By Steve Ginter 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 aircraft as the C-9B. 21 C-9As and 3 VC-9Cs...

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...

By Richard S. Dann 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...

72-pages, 140 b&w photos, 5 color photos, 22-patches, and 19 drawings By Nicholas M. Williams 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...

89-pages, 275 b&w photos, 13 color photos, 30 drawings, 41 patches. 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...

36 b&w pages with color covers, 87 b&w and 4 color photos. By Steve Ginter. 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...

48 PAGES, 159-B&W PHOTOS, 4-PAGES DRAWINGS By Scott Libis

101 photos, 35 drawings 56 pages

Duncan Curtis114 pagesSoftbound 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 Air Force operational...

By Steve Pace88 pagesSoftbound

David McLaren114 pagesSoftbound 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 standard P-51A and B/C...

By Steve Pace48 pagesSoftbound

By Duncan Curtiss 81 pgs

Item #212 - 144 pages softbound

Item #213 - 144 pages with several black & white photos and diagrams

41 pages with several black & white photos and diagrams. Softbound.

By Lou Drendel and Norm Taylor161 pagesSoftbound

By Gerry Balzer72 pagesSoftbound

By Allan Carey161 pagesSoftbound

By Steve Ginter4 pagesSoftbound 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 the propeller even...

By Steve Ginter65 pagesSoftbound 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...

By William J SImoneSoftbound 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 first Air Force jets to...

By Nicolas WilliamsSoftbound 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 Douglas Aircraft...

By Geoffrey HaysSoftbound 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 the Tornado. The book is...

By Steve GinterSoftbound 48-pages 131 b&w photos, 7 drawings 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...

By Steve GinterSoftbound 48-pages, 96 b&w photos, 3 color photos, 26 b&w illustrations 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...

By William SimoneSoftbound 53-pages, 4-color and 87-b&w photos, with 39 drawings 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...