U.S. Naval Air Superiority: Development Of Shipborne Jet Fighters 1943-1962

from PaulFAustin

An excellent book on early Naval jet fighters. The author includes considerable information on aircraft systems & propulsion as well as an assessment of the "success" of the early fighters. The book has an ideal complement in Bill Gunston's "Early Supersonic Fighters of the West", published thirt...

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I don't have that much more to add to the other reviews that have been posted though I would say that this work is a more coherent study than the author's companion book on naval strike aircraft, which while not bad, sometimes felt like a summary of the relevant monographs from Steve Ginter's "Na...

from CharlesFerdinand

An excellent book on all the ins and outs of early jet operations. You get a good analysis of the various technical problems and how they were dealt with. I found it particularily interesting to see how the various development programmes intermeshed.

from PaulFAustin

An excellent book on early Naval jet fighters. The author includes considerable information on aircraft systems & propulsion as well as an assessment of the "success" of the early fighters. The book has an ideal complement in Bill Gunston's "Early Supersonic Fighters of the West", published thirt...

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I don't have that much more to add to the other reviews that have been posted though I would say that this work is a more coherent study than the author's companion book on naval strike aircraft, which while not bad, sometimes felt like a summary of the relevant monographs from Steve Ginter's "Na...