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With vivid detail and many exclusive photographs, Wayne Mutza chronicles the Convair’s F-102 Delta Dagger’s unsteady course through history, from its inception to present-day survivors.
Published 2000, 192 pages, over 530 black & White and color photo
44 pages, black & white and colour photographs, 27 colour profiles, colour multi-views, colour detail photos, 1:72 scale line drawing plans, production and unit lists, model kit decal and accessory list, softcover, A4 Format, 21 cm (8 1/4”) x 29.7 cm (11
For more than two years prior to the Navy issuing an 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 represent
The T-29/C-131 series of aircraft was one of the military's many cost-saving examples of purchasing existing civil and commercial designs for their utility and transport needs. The first military Conviar-Liner was accepted on March 8, 1950.
This is the story of 32 years of Boeing 747 jumbo jet service with French leisure carrier Corsair, bringing together the individual history of their 24 747s, and two in-depth historical essays: the story of the 747, and the complete story of Corsair.....
Published December 2021, 304 pages, 100+ black & white photographs and diagrams, maps, hardcover, 6" x 9" inches (15 x 23 cm)
This book describes the development of the legendary F4U Corsair, and follows it into battle from Guadalcanal to the Indian Ocean, Central Pacific Ocean, Korea, Africa, and Central America, and throughout its lengthy military career into Korea............
The F4U Corsair, designed by Vought and produced by that firm, as well as, Goodyear and Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, would not only rack up an impressive 11:1 kill ratio against its foes in WWII, but go on to serve through the Korean War as well.
Published March 2011. 264 pages, black & white photographs, Victories list, index, softcover, 6" x 9" inches
Published February 2023, 304 pages, 120 colour and black & white photographs, hardcover, 6" x 9" inches
The F9C was the first fighter specifically designed to be dropped from mother airships. The plane would be lowered in the air stream hanging from a trapeze below the airship.
The Curtiss P-40 had a production run of 13,738 aircraft, making it the third most produced US fighter of WWII..............
The last of the aircraft designed for use as eyes of the fleet, this was the fastest, highest climbing, heaviest armed, most maneuverable "EYE" the Navy ever had. This aircraft had no tail hook but it still went aboard ships. It was used for many roles li
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 monopla
This is the fifth book in the series of World War II aircraft designed under the Navy's Bomber Torpedo requirements.................
Curtiss Model 98 XBTC-2 was designed because of 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.
Published August 2024, 36 pages, 87 black & white and 4 color photos, drawings, 8 1/2 x11" inches
Limited Edition of 1,000 copies.
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 P
Published October 2024, 128 pages, black & white and colour photographs and illustrations, colour profile, fatality list, maps, glossary, bibliography, index, softcover, 7" x 10" inches
The landing of Allied forces on the shores of Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the greatest amphibious invasion in history. Technology and innovation played crucial parts in the D-Day drama – from tank-carrying gliders, swimming tanks and the Mulberry harbors,
Published late 2021, 256 pages, over 100 black & white and colour photographs, maps and graphics, hardcover, 7" (18 cm) x 10" inches (25 cm).
Publsihed 2023, 62 pages, black & white and colour photographs, colour profiles, numerous colour multi-views, softcover, A4 Format, 21 cm (8 1/4”) x 29.7 cm (11 3/4 “)
Dancing in the Sky: The Royal Flying Corps in Canada softcover
Published February 2009, 360 pages, black & white photographs, 6" x 9" inches
Published April 2023, 88 pages, 100 black & white and 7 colour photographs, 12 colour profiles and diagrams, 2 maps, bibliography, softcover, A4 format 8 1/4" x 11 3/4" inches