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.

 

[CK90]

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.

Great taste, one of the nicest contracts!