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  1. Doctor Damage

    'Top Gun: Maverick': Patches On Tom Cruise's Jacket Spark Controversy

    (click for large version) Tom looks like jailbait in this photo!
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    I was reading about that ECWCS stuff a few days ago and was going to post about it! Yeah, I'm sure it does the job well, but it's ugly and looks like a snowboarding outfit (the horror). Here's all seven levels and a clear photo of the level 7 stuff.
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    Biker jacket

    I really like that look. But adopt that look today and everyone's going to think you're posing when historically the real posing is the Ramones version with t-shirt and jeans and Chucks.
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    Good point. I'm tempted to get one of those Expedition coats, but they're C$1200 and adding a pair of insulated pants + taxes would make it a couple grand or more. My rule is don't spend more than a grand on anything other than a used car. I'm trending towards a NOS military N3B with matching F1...
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    They were civilian jackets presumably acquired for the Antarctic flights only and for max visibilty for maintainers and cargo crew messing around outside the aircraft in snowy situations. They also came in a green colour which you can see in some of the photos I posted. I don't know if they...
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    MA-1 Flight jacket

    Here's an Alpha MA-1 from a Japanese website. The retailer is called Waiper and I suppose this might be a special model for that store only. Which shows that Alpha can do a convincing repro when they want to.
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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Here's another one of those yellow astronaut L2B jackets.
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    Here's some photos of a military N3B dated 1992. Japanese websites always have the best photos!
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    Biker jacket

    Okay, that's good. Too bad they don't have a website anymore since their stuff is good quality and they could probably bring in some sales.
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    Here's some photos of a Valley parka from a Japanese website: https://global.rakuten.com/en/store/jalana/item/valel-n3b-229/ And from a US website: https://www.usarmynavystore.com/va-made-in-usa-n3b-sage-green It's clearly a re-badged Alpha. They're identical in every detail.
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    Biker jacket

    I just looked up Branded (which made heavy moto jackets, among other stuff, including military A2 jackets once upon a time under the Orchard name which our own Atticus Finch swears were excellent) for a thread on VLJ. Google's streetview dated 2020 came up with the following image of its Long...
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    That's the thing: I haven't seen anyone who has, and I haven't even seen any for sale. It's weird. The company has had nylon jackets on their website for several years, actually, but where are they in the real world? I'd have thought I'd see a few used ones filter through on e-bay, but no.
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    Alpha Nylon CWU 45-P USA Made Civvy Jackets

    I've had both USA made and Chinese made go through my hands and in my observation the latter are screwed together much better. The former, though, have nicer knits in grey, and I suppose the nylon is a more sage-ish sage green, so those are the ones I kept. But the USA made ones often have wild...
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    It looks like a dead copy of the Alpha parkas, or maybe even a re-badged Alpha.
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    MA-1 Flight jacket

    No inner pockets? Okay, that's interesting,thanks for mentioning it. I had assumed these were the same as the regular Alpha MA-1's of the period except with a different tag.
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    Stuff gets better and although sometimes wool and fur and whatnot is still warmer it's also much more difficult to clean and far more expensive to make (ask any tailor, good wool ain't cheap anymore). I posted photos in this thread of N3B parkas being worn at the Antarctic scientific station...
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    Bronson MA-1 review

    Okay, thanks. The blue nylons look good and if their size charts are accurate an XL (their largest size) would do me. Not sure if this is the right time to be ordering things from China, though... cough cough
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    Bronson MA-1 review

    is this the official site? https://bronsonshop.com/
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    I understand. I'll reiterate that I think you did well here: this looks like a really good quality parka. Keep it and wear it!
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    USAF N-3B parkas - Let's talk about them!!

    Great info, thanks for posting. Canada in the winter can get really cold so I totally understand how you and your aircrew would have been wearing parkas a lot. That's not a military parka, it's a civilian one, hence it doesn't "feel" the same as what you remember. But it looks solid and the...

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