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Famous People in Flight Jackets

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Thanks Blackadder! I knew some one would have the answer. It must be a very early L2. My only question is, would you really want to wear a nylon jacket, when you could be exposed to fire?
I doubt they wear the L-2 on a jet plane. That brings another interesting question. Should flight jackets still be called flight jackets if they are not worn in flight?
 

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Stearmen said:
My only question is, would you really want to wear a nylon jacket, when you could be exposed to fire?
They wore them all the time (F-86 in Korea? nylon everywhere) and they must have melted now and then, which is why the USAF switched to aromatic polyamide jackets in the mid-70s.
 

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They wore them all the time (F-86 in Korea? nylon everywhere) and they must have melted now and then, which is why the USAF switched to aromatic polyamide jackets in the mid-70s.
My mistake. Read that they did design the MA-1 to be worn in jet's tight cockpit.
 

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Jessie J in a fashion flight jacket. Still, it's good when celebs are wearing flight jackets, since it means clothing companies will keep making them.

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Jessie J in a fashion flight jacket. Still, it's good when celebs are wearing flight jackets, since it means clothing companies will keep making them.

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Is this woman - does she not have a surname - famous? Maybe not over here. But then I'm old and disinterested in media. And, incidentally, I find it curious that her lank, severely parted hair looks lifeless and years older than her comparatively lively face.
 
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I don't think these two are famous, but it's nice to see a G-1 jacket being worn in the Netherlands in the 1960s.

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It is either an 1980 or 81 301cui, Turbo Firebird. A rather forgettable version of the Screaming Chicken car! I told everyone, the 80s were tacky!
 

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I love this photo. They do look like they've stepped of a late-70s Scorsese film: "Ya look like a mook", "Yeah, well I'm not the one wearing my mom's fur coat".
 

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