The renowned Detail & Scale Series continues with the newest title, F9F Cougar in Detail & Scale – Revised Edition, covering the development, history, and details of one of the United States Navy’s first operational swept wing jet fighters.

Over the past 40 years, Detail & Scale has published more than 100 books on military aircraft and U. S. Navy aircraft carriers.  After a ten-year break, Detail & Scale returned to the publishing scene in late 2013 and since that time has published a dozen new or updated books in the Detail & Scale Series, the Colors & Markings Series, as well as several stand-alone volumes.  While our digital books proved to be very popular, many customers longed for the traditional print book format, and in late 2017 we began to convert our digital books to a print-on-demand format.  The only book in our new Detail & Scale Series that could not be converted was our original Volume 2, F9F Cougar in Detail & Scale.  That book was just too large because it was basically a combination of the content we usually published in both our Detail & Scale and Colors & Markings Series.  So, in 2018 we pulled that book from our bookshelf and began the process of republishing it as two books, one in each series.  This book, F9F Cougar in Detail & Scale – Revised Edition, is the first result of this process.  It will eventually be followed by a second book, Colors & Markings of the F9F Cougar, which will cover all of the paint schemes used on the F9F and will look at all of the Navy and Marine fighter, attack, photo-reconnaissance, utility, test & evaluation, fleet air service, Reserve, miscellaneous squadrons, and the Blue Angels precision flight demonstration team, that flew the Cougar.  In combination, these two books will be the most comprehensive and detailed look ever published on this iconic aircraft from the Grumman Ironworks.