Famous People in Flight Jackets

[Doctor Damage]

Troy Lambert squeezed his arms into the flight jacket that once protected him from the bitter South Korean winters. Tugging the zipper, he slowly stuffed his belly inside the dusty green coat he had not tried on in more than 50 years.
Troy Lambert, 83, models the uniform he wore more than 50 years ago as an Army pilot during the Korean War.

"Good goodness," said the Batesville, Miss., resident barely able to lift his arms. "I can't believe I was ever this small."

The jacket Lambert wore as an Army pilot during the Korean War now has a few moth holes. And somewhere between 1953 and 2009, the coat's sheen faded like the fragile peace between the United States and North Korea.

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[TXFlyGuy]

Troy Lambert squeezed his arms into the flight jacket that once protected him from the bitter South Korean winters. Tugging the zipper, he slowly stuffed his belly inside the dusty green coat he had not tried on in more than 50 years.
Troy Lambert, 83, models the uniform he wore more than 50 years ago as an Army pilot during the Korean War.

"Good goodness," said the Batesville, Miss., resident barely able to lift his arms. "I can't believe I was ever this small."

The jacket Lambert wore as an Army pilot during the Korean War now has a few moth holes. And somewhere between 1953 and 2009, the coat's sheen faded like the fragile peace between the United States and North Korea.

LINK

Someone here has talent...in the writing dept! Hard to find that these days.

 

[AustinTX]

Good one, Fanch!

 

[AustinTX]

http://mistercrew.com/files/2009/11/hilts_jacket_09.jpg



Know we've covered this ground before, but just can't help myself.

 

[AustinTX]

Pretty squared-away looking chap. Wonder what he did in the war?

 

[AustinTX]

http://formfollowsfunctionjournal.tumblr.com/post/42346024436/keeping-the-cold-out




Early U.S. Airmail pilot

 

[AustinTX]

http://formfollowsfunctionjournal.tumblr.com/post/42384538498/mudwerks-via-latf-hipster-19-hilobrow




Roscoe Turner. (Guess I was only half-kidding).

 

[Seb Lucas]

Pockets! Who gave Sly an Irvin with bloody pockets!

I don't care for Irvins or know about their pockets, but I do care for films and I know this wasn't one.

 

[Doctor Damage]

http://mistercrew.com/files/2009/11/hilts_jacket_09.jpg

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Know we've covered this ground before, but just can't help myself.

I'm halfway through watching that movie as of last night. I will finish it tonight. I thought it amusing that McQueen was wearing clothes in that film which no pilot would ever wear, other than the jacket!

 

[pipvh]

I much prefer the car to the dodgy B-3 knock-off ( but then I've got a '69 280S )

Horrific jacket, lovely motor. I used to have a sky-blue '72 200TD... Liesl the Diesel. Oh, how I loved that car!

 

[atomjet58]

Both Rod Taylor and Hugh Marlowe wear G-1 jackets when they rocket into the future in the movie World Without End.
A third crew member wears an A-2. All in color and cinemascope.

 

[Smithy]

Liesl the Diesel

Haha, love it!

Ours is Kaiser Wilhelm (or Big Willy for short). I love him too but he's a thirsty old bugger for high octane petrol

 

[Doctor Damage]

Photos of some flight jackets worn in the ongoing Ukraine situation. I won't comment on "politics" since this forum isn't the place.

 

[Edward]

Photos of some flight jackets worn in the ongoing Ukraine situation. I won't comment on "politics" since this forum isn't the place.

Couple of interesting designs there. The old US CWU type looks in evidence (as with the MA1 before it, I believe there are a lot of forces around the world have subcontracted or copied the design). The leather ones are interesting - reminiscent of the PRC Air Force leathers we discussed on here a year or two ago. I wonder if, similarly, these come in Winter / lighter variants. The fur collar model in your last shot looks bulkier, perhaps it's a heavier jacket like a B15, whereas this one is more akin to an A2:

http://www.silvermans.co.uk/tabid/62/MILITARY/LEATHER+JACKETS/RUSSIAN+MIG+FLYING+JACKET/0/SKU/4-190-10186-2435/Default.aspx

 

[Doctor Damage]

^ Interesting about those leather jackets... I wonder who copied whom?

 

[rocketeer]

Photos of some flight jackets worn in the ongoing Ukraine situation. I won't comment on "politics" since this forum isn't the place.

All the pictures I have seen of a Russian wearing this jacket feature this particular officer. My guess would have been a one way ticket to the Gulag in commie times.

 

[Doctor Damage]

He's Colonel Yuliy Mamchur of the Ukrainian air force (ARTICLE). Here he is wearing one of those leather jackets, so these jackets must be associated with pilots since he is supposedly a former fighter pilot.

 

[rocketeer]

He's Colonel Yuliy Mamchur of the Ukrainian air force (ARTICLE). Here he is wearing one of those leather jackets, so these jackets must be associated with pilots since he is supposedly a former fighter pilot.

You could land a TU-95 on that hat

 

[thor]

Crew of USS PUEBLO captured by North Korea, 1968; the Commanding Officer Lloyd Bucher wearing a G-1.

 

[TXFlyGuy]

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Crew of USS PUEBLO captured by North Korea, 1968; the Commanding Officer Lloyd Bucher wearing a G-1.

The officer behind Bucher...what is he wearing? A satin jacket?