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Ironworks Grumman’s Fighting Aeroplanes by Terry Treadwell w/ dust jacket
Ironworks Grummans Fighting Aeroplanes by Terry Treadwell
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
192 pages
Copyright 1990
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements6
Introduction 7
Grumman the Company9
FF-1 and F2F-122
F3F29
F4F Wildcat36
TBF and TBM Avenger46
F6F Hellcat55
F7F Tigercat64
F8F Bearcat71
The Amphibians77
AF-2 Guardian89
F9F Panther/Cougar94
XF10E-1 Jaguar107
S-2 Tracker, TF-1 Trader and WF-2 Tracer111
F11F Tiger118
The Ag-Cat122
Gulfstream127
OV-1 Mohawk133
A-6 Intruder140
E-2 Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound151
F-14 Tomcat158
Grumman American170
The X-29171
Grumman into space176
Glossary of abbreviations 187
Bibliography 188
Index189
IRONWORKS
This is the story of the Grumman Aircraft Corporation from the earliest days to the present.
Affectionately known as Ironworks due to their aircrafts' dependability during the Second World War, Grumman is one of the most respected manufacturers in the world. From Leroy Grumman's initial dream through the building of centreline floats for Vought seaplanes in the 1930s to the development of the A6 Intruder, possibly today's most sophisticated aircraft in terms of avionics, the Grumman Corporation has constantly been in the forefront of aviation.
In this book, Terry Treadwell, author of Submarines With Wings and European Correspondent for the US Navy's Naval Aviation News describes in detail and as near chronologically as possible Grumman's aircraft manufacture from the FF-1 biplane and the legendary fighter aircraft The Wildcat, Hellcat, Avenger, Cougar and Panther to today's computerised FSW X-29.
Ironworks has its role in Space also; with the OAO (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory'); the lunar module in which man flew to the moon; the wings of the Space Shuttle Orbiter all these were built by Grumman who most recently appointed one of the teams to work on the Space Station Programme Support contract.
With a plethora of superb photographs, this fully illustrated history of the Grumman Corporation's total aircraft output will be of great appeal to all who are interested in aviation history.
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