Grumman AF Guardian

Grumman AF Guardian merupakan pesawat berbasis carrier anti-kapal selam (ASW) pertama untuk memasuki layanan dengan Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat. Ini terdiri dari dua airframes, satu untuk deteksi gigi, yang lainnya untuk senjata.

Guardian tetap dalam pelayanan sampai Agustus tahun 1955, ketika ia digantikan oleh Grumman S-2 Tracker. Guardian adalah pesawat yang terbesar bermesin tunggal kapal induk bertenaga piston pernah melihat layanan.

Referensi

• Donald, David and Daniel J. March. Carrier Aviation Air Power Directory. Norwalk, CT: AIRtime Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-880588-43-9.
• Goodall, Geoffrey. Warbirds Directory. Victoria, Australia: Victoria Publishing, Fourth Edition 2005.
• Gunston, Bill. Grumman: Sixty Years of Excellence. New York: Orion Books, 1988. ISBN 0-517-56796-2.
• Kowalski, Robert J. Grumman AF Guardian. Naval Fighters Series (#20). Simi Valley, CA: Steve Ginter Publishing, 1991, ISBN 0-942612-20-5.
• Pilot's Manual for Navy Model AF-2S Aircraft, AN 01-85DAB-1. Washington: Secretary of the Air Force and the Bureau of Aeronautics, 4 March 1951; reissued in digital DVD version as Grumman AF-2S Flight Manual, AN 01-85DAB-1, 1951. Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada: Sicuro Publishing Inc., 2011.
• Swanborough, Gordon and Peter M. Bowers. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London: Putnam, Second edition, 1976. ISBN 0-370-10054-9.
• Swanborough, Gordon and Peter M. Bowers. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London: Putnam, Third edition, 1990. ISBN 978-0-87021-792-0.
• Thruelsen, Richard. The Grumman Story. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1976. ISBN 0-275-54260-2.
• Wagner, Ray. American Combat Planes. New York: Doubleday & Company, Third Edition, 1982. ISBN 0-385-13120-8.

Pranala luar

• (1951) AN 01-85DAB-1 Pilot's Handbook for Navy Model AF-2S Aircraft
• Grumman AF Guardian at Greg Goebel's Air Vectors Diarsipkan 2008-06-05 di Wayback Machine.
• AF2S Guardian at Arizona Wing Commemorative Air Force Diarsipkan 2007-07-16 di Wayback Machine.