Flight jackets and Hollywood

[asiamiles]

Great picture Miles and most look like Wartime originals as well.

The A-2 on the right with the visible stencil is not an issued jacket, but the others all look like worn originals...and each is different - as I'm sure you don't need me to tell you - which I thought was a nice, if perhaps not realistic, touch.

The picture is a screen grab I took from the Bluray.

 

[Roughwear]

Yes, I recognised the A2 on the right as a commercial jacket otherwise I would have said all look like originals!

 

[MikeyB-17]

Can you get Sole Survivor on Blu-ray nowadays?
That looks like an ANJ-4 on the left-triangle oxygen mask patch on left chest. I don't think the thing second right is an issue jacket.

 

[asiamiles]

The jacket on the left is indeed an AN-J-4 while the one second right is an M445.

SOLE SURVIVOR was released on Bluray in the UK last month. It's presented 4:3, which to be fair is how we would have seen it on TV at the time, but it plays much better cropped to 16:9 and really should have been released like that; still, if you have a 'zoom' feature on your TV or player then you can watch it widescreen.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sole-Surviv...&qid=1460025084&sr=8-1&keywords=sole+survivor

 

[Grant]

Kirk

 

[Steve27752]

I ordered it last night

 

[Silver Surfer]

there 3 or 4 pix of kirk in his a-2, which, having seen all of the pix , i would say that he is sporting an aero 16160 in all of them. his own jacket? possibly, as the pix are not movie pix or publicity shots.

 

[asiamiles]

Rock Hudson (top), Rock and Henry Silva (bottom) in A GATHERING OF EAGLES.