@WARHAWK
What does one have to do to order the Avenger jacket custom made. I've sent several inquiries to Cockpit and never receive a response. I'm a tall guy and need some specific measurements because I'm somewhere between a regular and tall size.
I get the sense that people seem to have better luck calling them than writing them. I know you are in France, but might be worth a phone call to establish comm with them.
Seems as though we have had the same experience, I have found the same thing. I hope I changed a few minds a week ago when I gave a brief on the history of the leather flight jacket in the USN to my fellow aviators. I also gave a brief on the history of brown shoes in the Navy. The feed back I received was positive and they seemed truly interested. BTW, I despise side entry pockets in the G-1. I am purist and feel they should be kept "as is" and left alone.In my experience, real aviators don't seem to know or care who made their jacket or how original its design is, or how well it conforms to the 40's, 50's, 60's, etc. They just don't notice that stuff. The few of us that do notice, and care, find ourselves here at the forum, where we can share this passion with others who care. Thankfully.
The moral of this story, is that if you want to buy a jacket, just buy the one that speaks to you, and worry less about what the real aviators wear, because the real aviators don't even know.
Seems as though we have had the same experience, I have found the same thing. I hope I changed a few minds a week ago when I gave a brief on the history of the leather flight jacket in the USN to my fellow aviators. I also gave a brief on the history of brown shoes in the Navy. The feed back I received was positive and they seemed truly interested. BTW, I despise side entry pockets in the G-1. I am purist and feel they should be kept "as is" and left alone.
NO NO NO POWER POINTSThat's pretty awesome. I always find it weird that few in the military show any interest in one of its most iconic symbols.
Like to see the PowerPoint!
I took prefer the original configuration of the jacket. Somehow the pockets mess with the lines of the jacket, IMO.
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On a different note, is the "Jacky" that people who get good customer service from, Jacky Clyman, cofounder of The Cockpit?
On the one hand, I would not have thought that she would be answering phone calls with the amount of business that the Cockpit does. On the other, you could certainly see how she could get some stuff done if she had a mind to.
WHOAH! Pump the brake pedal there son, that's some line y'all about to cross!
I have no doubt that military aviators are too excited to care about the in's and out's of G-1s when they get issued one, too concerned with not washing out to give jackets a thought during training, and too preoccupied with doing there job to become a jacket nerd thereafter, BUT...
Don't you be coming in the lounge and showing disrespect on the issue of fit!
I don't care if 'real' aviators ever noticed it or not, but there are vast differences in cuts of WWII and 70's issue G-1s of the same tag size.
Additionally, various repro jackets over the years, claiming to be 'authentic' and 'original' and 'mil-spec' also have fits and cuts that stray wildly from issue jackets of the same tag size.
So, yeah, obsessing over photos and details to make sure that my $1000 jacket is accurate seems pretty reasonable to me, I don't mind (or care) if real USN pilots never noticed anything about their free jackets they were issued with.
Enough perspective for ya'?