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    Anyone familiar with Good Wear Leather jackets?

    Bearing in mind that a Good Wear costs $900 plus $50 shipping, which equates to £624.67 and an Eastman 'original maker' costs around £484 for a new which is $736 including £10 shipping and which carries no risk of import taxes or getting done for fraud if caught, you have to be looking for a...
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    Anyone familiar with Good Wear Leather jackets?

    When I first saw this post I had to check the date :-) Nope, it's 2nd April and not the first !! It might be considered incorrect to say that there has never been any negative comments ......... John went through the same learning curves that anyone would go through: dodgy hides, knits, cuts...
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    An interesting Aero leather conversation I had today...

    Yeah, what is it with Belstaff and the BBC ? It's freakin' everywhere :mad: 'Top Gear' , 'Long Way 'Round', and pretty much anything else on the Beeb. A couple of years ago Emilia Fox was wearing a nice Aero on 'Silent Witness'. Mind you, she could wear a J-Cloth and look GORGEOUS...
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    Artificially breaking in an Aero FQHH jacket...

    I have to say that chucking mine in the drier for 20 minutes softened it up enough (as it was warm and the leather oils were not waxy) to put it on and wear it and go through a range of motions as it cooled to get it to conform to my shape that little bit quicker. Dave
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    Now a Helldiver in Tillamook, OR

    Maybe not, but if there are human remains, it would be good to put them to rest amongst brothers in arms ................ Dave
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    Name Tag Placement on A2

    Got to agree with reason 1 spitty. Makes the most sense. Reason 2 is probably not correct. Have you ever seen what happens to people involved in a flying accident in peacetime, let alone wartime with munitions etc ? :eek: Rarely was an dead airman removed from the aircraft compared to the...
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    Name Tag Placement on A2

    Like I said : I stand to be corrected ! I agree that flying clothing was issued to someone BUT as I also mentioned, it was a re-issueable bit of kit once the flyer had finished with it. sure some senior officers may have had the clout to keep theirs. Perhaps due to keeping flying status even...
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    Name Tag Placement on A2

    I am prepared to be corrected but if I understand correctly, British & Commonwealth flight jackets (the Irvin) was not issued to the man but kept in store and issued out for each flight (as was all flying kit held centrally and maintained by specialist groundcrew). If someone was unable to fly...
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    B-3 softening

    Calling John Lever, calling John Lever ............ he's your man . :) Dave
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    WWII Jeep in a Crate? Apocryphal? True?

    I can recall while working heli-borne seismic surveying a good few years back stopping off at an old Alaska Highways base that had old, tumble-down buildings and in those were creates of all sorts of things: jeep parts, generators and all sorts of other stuff like food and clothing, in various...
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    A2 novice question

    Pip, If you like knits but not 'tight' knits, then do what I have done in the past: Take jacket and using a shower head soak the knit in hot water, squeeze dry and hang the jacket up to dry by one side of the zipper bottom or t'other and let it's self-weight stretch it out. That makes it...
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    The Humble Anorak.....

    Anoraks for sale Did an inventory of my cold weather clothing and anoraks. I have WAY too many to ever get use out of them all where I now reside so I'm thinking of selling three of my ventile and a few non ventile anoraks and jackets. PM me if you have serious interest rather than photo...
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    Wearing Crusher Hat

    Wasn't there a couple of early versions of the oxygen mask that were used in WW2 that had head straps rather than fixing to the leather flight helmet ? I recall that the USN had a gfrey/green one and in the movie 'Memphis Belle' the mask with the oxy bladder was a headstrap type too so...
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    Wanted ELC RAF

    Don't go there Andrew !!! :D Maybe ELC has caught that virus 'Aviationleathercraftitis' ?? A regression in the quality and authenticity of products. Although to be fair to AL, they are selling to a completely different market. Dave
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    The Great MacArthur Debate/Discussion

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    The Humble Anorak.....

    I'll have to scan a post some of the pages from a 1970's Blacks catalogue I have. They have ventile anoraks in that. I also have a 'few' of the Blacks and ITISA Good Companions tents that I use once in a while. Always get a few oldies coming up to tell me tales of where they went when they...
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    What kind of cuff closure ?

    Well, Aero do it on their biker jackets and will do it on any other jacket too. I just personally find that where the leather overlaps on the cuff it makes that bit that much thicker, stiffer and less aesthetically pleasing. (To my mind anyways). Also make sure you don't go for the internal...
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    What kind of cuff closure ?

    What about a nice brass zipper closure for the cuffs ????? Classy, a little biker but fairly discreet and very easy to operate ......... Dave
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    The Humble Anorak.....

    Here's some anoraks from 1924 ............... Dave
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    Antarctic Clothing & Equipment

    You started it BT ........................... :rolleyes: I was just trying to help you. [huh] I'll leave you to get on with it yourself then :p Personally I assumed when you originally asked the question that it was rhetorical as you seem to know enough about ventile anyways and...

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