Show Us Your Favorite Flight Jacket, That You Actually Wore For Flying.

[Brettafett]

Beautiful Bushbaby, Brett.
I have a working database and I was sad to find now that she crashed 2 years ago.

Oh no! I did not know that. This was the other Bushbaby, a taildragger. Quite squirrelly!
Unfortunately one of the instructors killed himself in this a couple of years after this was taken...

 

[Flightengineer]

Never flown one, only seen on the ground. I'd like to try one day.

 

[Pa12]

Hard to see it but that’s my Eastman roughwear a-2 draped over the cockpit .Or should I call it the Eastman “rapid wear” and a couple cockpit shots in flight.

 

[Ed Rooney]

Hmmmm…I don’t seem to have any of those jackets left. I had the give back the various CWUs and CVCs. The last one to go put the door was this Avirex G-1, which I used to occasionally wear during period 4 AFTPs.

When I do manage to return to flying, I want to get one of those Nomex fleece jackets.

 

[Dany McDonald]

Does just being a passenger fit the bill?

Anyways here's my Aero in the nose of a B-26J, the beard is pre-covid.

Dany.

 

[Pa12]

Very cool

 

[Pa12]

And on a side note, I often have a beard and hate when the wind collar fasteners rip it out hair by hair

 

[Dany McDonald]

And on a side note, I often have a beard and hate when the wind collar fasteners rip it out hair by hair

Oh that is so true, especially when riding a motorcycle!!!

 

[Grant]

Does just being a passenger fit the bill?

Anyways here's my Aero in the nose of a B-26J, the beard is pre-covid.

Great photos, but never seen a glass nosed B-26 with a gun mount or a J model. Sure that's not a B-25J?

 

[ButteMT61]

...Define "flying" pleaze

 

[B-Man2]

...Define "flying" pleaze

If you ever left the ground in a tube with wings………. you were “flying “

 

[Ed Rooney]

And on a side note, I often have a beard and hate when the wind collar fasteners rip it out hair by hair

Oh that is so true, especially when riding a motorcycle!!!

Yet another way in which the G-1 is superior to the A-2.

 

[Nickb123]

What a great thread. Favorite one to wear up with my dad was my Buzz L-2. Sadly I only have this photo left, which is actually a rare bird of a jacket- now defunct Aerial Star civilian A-2.

I found flying in Southern California to more often be hot and sweaty rather than A-2 weather. The sun really goes through the cockpit. Flying into Las Vegas was not fun!

 

[ausreenactor]

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No headset?

 

[ausreenactor]

Hard to see it but that’s my Eastman roughwear a-2 draped over the cockpit .Or should I call it the Eastman “rapid wear” and a couple cockpit shots in flight.View attachment 75383View attachment 75384View attachment 75385View attachment 75386

Gold...

They have to be bullet holes, surely?

 

[ausreenactor]

...Define "flying" pleaze

 

[Smithy]

Hard to see it but that’s my Eastman roughwear a-2 draped over the cockpit .Or should I call it the Eastman “rapid wear” and a couple cockpit shots in flight.View attachment 75383View attachment 75384View attachment 75385View attachment 75386

As a lot of the longer term members on here know, the SE (along with the Spit) is my favourite aircraft so you go to the top of the class because of that.

Nice touch with the Triplex goggles too, and although the A-2 is lovely, you should maybe change it up for a Robinson and Cleaver 1917 Pattern Sidcot or a Burberry/Gamages/Dunhill/etc flying coat

 

[Smithy]

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Shit Couchy don't do that mate, for a second there I thought I'd gone and overdone it on the Martinis again!

 

[Pa12]

No headset?

Just ear plugs. No radio on the little beast

 

[Dany McDonald]

Great photos, but never seen a glass nosed B-26 with a gun mount or a J model. Sure that's not a B-25J?

Grant, total typo on my part... It's Maid in the shade a B-25J for sure!

Dany