Recent content by 917_k

Jesus. Definitely one of the worse things to come out of MOTA is the amount of garbage written about ‘bomber jackets’ on various sites.

Probably come out of a clothing bale. That’s how a lot of this vintage kit is sold to dealers.

Price on that is insane, but it just goes to show you what rich people will pay to ‘get a look’ from a designer brand (personally I don’t care for RL all that much).

Really pleased you’ve all enjoyed the post. The pics I’ve shared are a fraction of all the stuff that’s on display, so I’d highly recommend going along if you can.

My pleasure! It’s such a fantastic museum and run entirely by volunteers. They’re doing a sterling job of keeping the memory alive and are naturally very excited about what the future holds given the interest around MOTA.

I also picked up a couple of nice repro 349th and 351st squadron patches from their shop:

And what you’ve all come here to see…

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Finding myself back in Norfolk for the weekend visiting my family, I decided to pay a visit to the 100th Bomb Group museum at Thorpe Abbotts. As luck would have it, this weekend was their re-opening weekend after winter (didn't feel much like Spring mind you) and there was a great buzz of...

Seems pretty simple to me: if you find these posts annoying ignore them. Members of this forum surely have to accept that given the website name, anyone who finds a jacket that they wish to value and Googles something like ‘vintage leather jacket value’, is likely to come across this forum. It...

Yes, though they’re cheeky about it and simply state ‘imported’. RRL is basically Americana and military inspired clothing for wealthy posers. Makes you realise how reasonable the pricing is from Eastman etc. £2000 for their A-1 style jacket...

Whilst posts freely asking for the expertise of members to value something in order to sell on can sometimes be a little tiresome, especially if its a garbage 90s mall jacket (certainty not the case here), there’s no need to be a dick in the responses. If it bothers you that much, why waste more...

This Facebook group is very good:

I see this said a lot about original A-2 and B-3 jackets and whilst it’s undoubtedly increasingly true, part of the reason so many people still want to be able to wear them is because there’s otherwise not a lot your average collector can do with them. Unless you’ve got a lot of space, they’re...

As I understand it, in 1967 the dating suffix came in, so the tag on this jacket would place it before 1967