Recent content by tater

I threw mine away, lol.

Base site (they make replica aircraft): http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/ WW1 photo gallery (many leather jackets in there): http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/image/tid/93

I think that one, the A-2 is a USAAF jacket, so that's obviously going to skew interest. Two, I'd actually love to have an Irvin, but it's simply not cold enough in most of the US to be able to wear it more than a few times a year---and even then I'd likely be wearing more "technical" clothing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG63OtsKC7k

There are only 2 airworthy A6Ms left, one's in Chino. The CAF one is indeed a modified AT-6.

$1500 is roughly $100/hour (assuming it takes a couple days to make a jacket). That's including materials, his assistant, and overhead, mind you. My plumber gets near that BEFORE materials. Seems entirely reasonable to me.

Goodwear Aero 18775 Russet Horse Been thinking about adding a Navy jacket, and a seal A-2.

People are not bigger because they have bigger bones. Bigger people grow bigger bones. This is not an evolutionary change, it's a physiological response (as muscle attachments on bone can grow, etc). Nutrition clearly plays a role, more calcium, etc, available, as well as just plain more...

Taller? Sure. The Masai are tall, too. They'd still likely fit a ww2 sizing. Funny aside: I'm NOT tall, I'm 5' 6". We stopped at a gas station somewhere between Nairobi and Tsavo, and went to use the toilet around back. The men's room had a trough urinal. The top lip of the trough was high...

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. So the pockets would look rather larger on a 36 than on a 46 jacket (relative size).

The idea of "big boned" is actually real. People are not fat because they are big boned, however. Their bones respond to the increased loads on them and grow to support what they need to support. The reality is that the population of real interest to us for flight jackets is maybe 16-25 years...

Were pockets all the same size? Ie: one fabricator cuts a zillion pockets, then they get slapped on jackets regardless of jacket size?

A friend's dad flew a B-24 in the 93d BG later in the war. While not an assembly ship, she had a very similar tiger face to the one above covering the entire nose. Apparently they were applied at the factory on some. I was looking at a book on bombers I have, and stumbled upon a color image of...

I have a book that has loads of images of the battle weary bombers turned into "assembly ships" for formation assembly over the UK. Awesome paint jobs.

The link posted shows an original in a few views, and it looks pretty close in color to my untrained eye.