Recent content by Geir

It's nice to see that the jacket fits so well!

I bought one of these by mistake in 2008. It's not the same quality as Eastman or Aero, so I gave it away to a friend of mine who took me up for trip in an AT6.

Re: Eastman price gouging on overseas sales I've just now ordered the Complete Season 3 & 4 of Midsomer Murders from Amazon.co.uk and VAT was automatically deducted from my shopping cart as this was an order from outside the EU. There is NO reason why Eastman should not do the same. They are...

Re: Eastman price gouging on overseas sales I once asked Eastman about since this. When I buy online from other people in the UK and VAT is always deducted on export orders outside the EU. Eastman simply answered that they did not deduct VAT on export orders. (Aero has the same practice). In...

We've had about minus 20 centigrade for a few days, but now it's just -4. So I've been wearing my 1944 Eastman Irvin or B-3 with a wool sweater underneath to work, but when I go out in the evening to walk the dogs (who are dressed up in fleece coats) I do sensible thing and wear a quilted...

I can't think what you would want a sheepskin jacket for in the south of Spain, but to answer your question: The answer is Eastman. I have both an Aero and An Eastman duotone B3, both with three-panel back. I am not going to go into details, but the Eastman just seems right somehow and is more...

That's the good thing about wives and girlfriends — they make you think and stop before you go all weird. One of the cuffs on my Aero B-3 has longer fleece than the other, so I showed it to The Wife and told her I would fix it in no time with a pair of scissors. She told me to leave it the way...

That jacket also has a red silk lining which C.G. Sweeting said was used by aces in the 46th and 479th fighter groups. If one reads the footnote this bit information came from Hub Zemke in telephone conversation with Sweeting in 1980. I have seen Marc Weinshenker's reference to this letter...

I have two duotone B-3 repros, one by Aero and one by Eastman. The fleece is longer on the Aero which makes this jacket less comfortable, but a lot warmer. The Eastman is more comfortable (it is also one size bigger, a 46 as opposed to a 44, but when it is cold I need a woollen sweater...

Sorry! I am of course referring to a repro made by the Scottish firm.

The obvious thing would be for someone to go and look in the AAF archives. The A2 was in use for quite a few years and a lot of paperwork must have been produced, but the big question would be if any of this survives. As far as I can tell no one has ever done any real search for real documentary...

My Eastman B-3 from the Re-issue depot arrived yesterday and it was sent with FedEx. If I'm not mistaken they used Parcelforce in the past. Any reason for the change?

The big black poodle passed away about a year and a half ago at the age of 12. We still have a big grey poodle who is 10 and who nearly died because of an infection just before Christmas. She is OK now. Then there's another whippet called Aggie. They're both young and when they're outdoors they...

John, it is cold. What happened to global warming? I'll try and take some pictures tomorrow as it's dark now and I don't like using the flash.

It seems that ELC jackets these days do not have very thick fleece, but that does not have to be a bad thing. Here in our part of Norway it has been cold since the Christmas holidays. I think it was around -27C (16.6F) at the coldest where we live, which means that it would be around -30 down in...