Posted:
By: Paul Bellamy
On: 08/12/2006
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Progress is being made....
Looking through the Blue Book again, not my usual skim-reading, shows quite a number of photos of crews with non-leather flight clothing. Oops.
I was lucky enough to get hold of a lot more bits of flight clothing at a sale in the UK, which now means I can display a setup suitable for late 1944, although not entirely "by the book".
The current setup is as follows:
Cotton long underwear, GI shirt, tie and trousers, F-2 heated suit inner jacket and trousers, A-11 trousers, B-10 jacket, heated boot liners, A-6 boots, F-2/3 heated glove liners, A-9 gloves, H-2 baleout bottle with the green ball.
No helmet or chute so far, but I'm working on it. I'm also on the lookout for a pair of the black felt F-2 boots, as the A-6s are a bit fragile these days.
All the best, Paul
Kettering
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