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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Cobra sounds like a really good find - and that's dead handy that they're a whizz with leather and nylon too! Excellent. I'm glad you're happy and reunited with the A2 and I hope that you get a chance to take the A2 out soon - not so much here as it's 32C again at this end! But I don't care...
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Thanks for the good wishes. Yes, she's my best pal ... I'm so glad she's still with me. (Phewww!) So glad too to know you and your beloved A2 are reunited and all is well again. Who did the work for you (who did you entrust your favourite jacket to, I mean?) and how did they clean and condition...
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Good for you, Worf. I do hope you can provide a forever home for a deserving dog at your end. We just rescued our second dog from Collin County, TX (yes, 2200 miles away!) - the first one was the very first in line for the gas chamber that Monday morning (no longer operating, thank God!) and he...
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    :eeek: Well, well. The things you learn ...!!!!! Thanks for that. Most interesting!
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Sorry for the delay in replying - needed to take an extra day after I dodged a major bullet with my faithful ol' dog at home this (long and awful) weekend - thought I was going to lose her for sure ... Major relief! Alas, no photos yet. We had a major...
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Nice to see you back again, Sir. And I agree - Alan at ELC was most helpful in modifying my latest score from eBay - an older type (around 7 years old but virtually unworn) RW B-6 that had 3 RiRi zips and they replaced them with Crown zips and they did a great job. You'd never know. They also...
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    US Army Air Force Decal - how to remove?

    No, nothing was moved in the modification - the square-shaped rank had been removed and that left the square of stitch-holes - and Edith ran cotton through them all again (don't ask me how!!!) and then connected the corners diagonally, forming an "X". Genius!
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    Opinions needed! New (to me) Langlitz Fighter Jacket....

    I think it looks great to me, Worf and you look good in it! If I'm splitting hairs, it perhaps could be a tad short, but then again, I'd just as soon put that down to the style of jacket as anything else ... And I'd disagree about the pockets "accentuating your girth". They just look like map...
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Re; Johnny Knoxville I didn't recognize him without a port-a-loo full of crap suspended between two cranes and him inside it and then the port-a-loo being catapulted a hundred feet into the air and bounced around repeatedly - and him covered from head-to-toe in human waste and vomiting...
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    US Army Air Force Decal - how to remove?

    Thanks Archbury! I wanted an early style "stubby" 8th AF wing as it's appropriate to the earlier model of B3 that the RW is. And no, the box-stitching was Will's idea. When the jacket was ordered (about 2006-ish), I asked ELC to put on their bullion patches - and bullion rank. But as time...
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    US Army Air Force Decal - how to remove?

    Well, I'd say that it'd be better to cover the AAF decal with an AAF patch - as the AAF emblem was traditionally worn on the left sleeve and an 8th AF patch would go on the right sleeve - but, that being said, there were the occasional anomalies and these were sometimes reversed, but it's...
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Indeed, that's fair. I only noticed that (and a couple more posts) after I'd submitted my post. It took me a little while to compose that as I'm at work and only have a certain amount of time to loiter here ... So fair do's.
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Hmm. I'm sorry but, with all due respect, I must beg to differ. If the gentleman here was to stand in Gary's tent at RAF Duxford with that A2 on and said (as I have done) "Gary. What do you think?" I know he'd be told to pick out another of a larger size (as I was) - possibly even two in his...
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    US Army Air Force Decal - how to remove?

    My pleasure. And here's one of my favourite websites for patches and he has a nice variety of AAF patches. I've bought a few from Dave and his service is great. http://militaryaviationartifacts.com/shoulder.htm And you could look up Snyders Treasures and Flying Tigers Antiques to look at...
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    Is my Eastman A2 way too small?

    Hello Olaf and welcome ... Alas, my 2 cents has to be that I think the jacket looks too small too. Sorry. Better not to wear it and move it on IMHO and get something right. You'll be much happier.
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    US Army Air Force Decal - how to remove?

    Hello Cottus, I had an AAF decal on my ELC B-6 that I just didn't care for when the jacket showed up. I pondered on how to remove it too - and then I just decided to paint over it! I used artist acrylics and blended raw umber and black to various degrees and it covered the decal easily. I...
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    Alexander Leathers

    So wrong on every conceivable level. I'm with the guy from Lost Worlds, me. Purses for men. Jesus Christ. The world's going mad.
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    Why you love Bomber Jackets. (its bomber jacket season again!)

    Absolutely. My first jacket was an Aviation leathercraft - I bought it new in 1987 for a mere 245 quid! It was pre-internet research and I saw their ad in a Fly Past magazine and was taken in by the Irvin Air Chute trade mark and I thought it was how they should be - and I loved that jacket! It...
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    New Orchard B3 Jacket PHOTOS

    Never heard of Orchard... And what's not to love about that jacket? You wear it well, Sir. And I don't think it's a case of how long it's going to last - it's who you're going to leave it to ...! ;-)
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    Just a few photos of A2's in Duxford

    Well, there you go, you see - you've taught me something new. (which is partly why I hang around here!). It seems that I took the ELC website a bit too literally when I read about the write-up on the Devon-fleece type Irvin they produce - I assumed that all long pile fleece was devon fleece...

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