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    Two Lancaster bomber planes fly together for first time in 50 years

    It's funny - Vera is just "down the road" in Hamilton and I've seen her a good few times at the air show there ... same as the BBMF "Thumper" Lancaster over the decades in the UK (even last month at RAF Duxford, in fact) and I've followed the news about the Canadian Lancaster flying over and...
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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    The book's that good, eh? Interesting ... will check it out. And I've already been scoping the red baseball caps at ELC ... "Reassuriungly expensive" - as the Stella Artois slogan used to go !
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    Buzz Rickson B-15 - pic heavy

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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Ha!Ha!Ha! You read my mind. I was going to write "Fantastic ... a nice bath, some wine, some candles .... and a good old war movie!" LOL :)
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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    I do have a copy !!! Or rather my girlfriend has a copy (I know, eh?!) and put it in a box for goodwill (!!) along with a few other old war movies from her single days that's been sitting downstairs for ages !!! Marvellous. Will dig it out (with the others) and give that a spin ... :) Fantastic !
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    Buzz Rickson B-15 - pic heavy

    Oh, it takes a bit of something to commit to splashing out on a B.R. jacket, I know - but when it appears, the money is the last thing you think about. As for the sizing, I can say for the record that I'm 5'8" with a 39" chest and a proportional frame thanks to my mountain bikes (otherwise I...
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    Buzz Rickson B-15 - pic heavy

    Very nice, Sloan. Perfect. As in PERFECT. Makes me feel good about me having been on the 'phone this afternoon to Charles at HPA and have just pulled the trigger on a new Buzz L2-A (a blue L-2) - it'll be shipped up to me as soon as he gets his new shipment in a week or two ...a most pleasant...
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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    You're an enabler, BN ! :) No, I haven't seen it (is it worth watching - besides the nylon?) ... but I imagine it'd be like when I ordered a copy of The War Lover for myself - and bought my ELC B-3 later that same week !
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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Interesting ... it's a blue BR L2-A I'm looking at ... Oh, sweet temptation.
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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    I've just been drooling at a Buzz Ricksons L-2 (see AustinTX -now look what you've started!) and have to ask Edward, what's wrong with the BR L-2?
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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Damn. That photo has me jonesing for an L-2 now !!! Great shot - and a good find, Sir.
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    You and Your Leather Jacket

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    Would you care? Would you fix it?

    If it was me, I couldn't care less. I'd say open a beer, mate. Have a drink and forget it. But I suppose it's like spending a load of lettuce on a great new suit, shoes and then $300 on a lovely Giorgio Armani tie - but if you then accidentally get just one bit of egg yolk on the tie, it's...
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    You and Your Leather Jacket

    There are some good stories here. I love the passion that people feel for these things .... we all have the same, similar hankering and can relate - just different stories. It's nice. Great idea for a thread, this.
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    You and Your Leather Jacket

    I mentioned this tale earlier in the year when it happened on a thread somewhere, so please forgive me repeating it here for those who've already seen it - but it's the best I've got. Last March, I was out for the usual pre-dawn dog walk in the wood/park and I was in my usual gear for the time...
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    Warm weather and leather jackets

    Amen, Brother. I'll drink to that.
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    Warm weather and leather jackets

    Alas no, I had an L-2 (a Buzz Ricksons) and moved it on a while ago ... and I want another ! They're fantastic.
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    Warm weather and leather jackets

    I would say that Summer is what a nice L2 is for ... and to be honest, I enjoy this short break from wearing leather. Before you know it, Summer is suddenly done and dusted and the ANJ-3 is back on for Fall ... then switched for the B-6 .... then the B-6/C-3 combo ... then the B-3 or Irvin ...
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    Nose art.

    My immediate recommendation would be "Aircraft Nose Art from World War I to Today" by Jeffrey L. Ethell and Clarence Simonsen. It's a fantastic book full of colour plates and is an enjoyable and easy read too. The bulk of the book focuses on WW2 and Korea - and then goes on to illustrate how...

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