The Flight Jacket Gallery - a new resource

[mulceber]

@Lorenzo_l and I have been plugging away at it, and the A-2 section is now neatly organized with a google doc (complete with whatever information I have on the jacket) separating the photos of each jacket. Now on to the rest of the Air Force jackets...

 

[Tattoo A2]

Very nice Jan, thanks so much for your time and effort, great idea and great job.

 

[Micawber]

Excellent - well done chaps!

 

[OperationCoffee]

My Spiewak D-1 is included! Nice

 

[mulceber]

My Spiewak D-1 is included! Nice

And now it’s credited to you.

 

[mulceber]

OK, I've finished organizing the Air Force photos. Every jacket in the gallery now has a google doc right before it with whatever information is known about it.

Next step: John Chapman sent me a thumb drive with 28 gigabytes of photos from his collection. Now they all need to be sorted into the relevant folders in the gallery. That should take a while....

 

[Chandler]

Next step: John Chapman sent me a thumb drive with 28 gigabytes of photos from his collection. Now they all need to be sorted into the relevant folders in the gallery. That should take a while....

If they're from his CD, there could be duplicates. I know of at least one G-1.

 

[mulceber]

Possibly some photos from his CD, but he told me these are photos he's been collecting since then.

 

[Nickb123]

I leave the place for a few weeks and this happens! I should leave more often

Very interesting to see the California Sportswear 7823 example in this gallery possess the same ridiculously grainy windflap as the one in my possession.

 

[mulceber]

I've just been getting started piling through the collection of photos John sent me, and holy hell this is a treasure trove. For example, this is his folder for Bronco's first A-2 contract:

In case it wasn't clear, each of those items is a folder full of photos.

 

[Lord Flashheart]

This truly is a resource Jan. Outstanding!

 

[bazelot]

I have plenty of photos you can use as well.

 

[mulceber]

I think I've used a fair number of photos that you've posted over the years, @bazelot, but I'm always happy for more! You can email me any you'd like to contributed. email address is same as my VLJ handle, at gmail.

 

[bazelot]

I believe most of my pictures are scattered over the forum

 

[mulceber]

Ok, John Chapman's trove of vintage jacket photos has now been merged into the gallery, so they should all be available now.

So, with John Lever's agreement, I'm stickying this thread so the gallery should be readily available to anyone who's interested.

One future direction for it to take would be to add a section for Irvins and RAF jackets generally. I'd be happy to have such a section, I just don't know much about Irvins and never collected photos of them. If anyone has a whole bunch of Irvin (or other RAF jacket) photos they'd like to contribute, I'd be happy to add them to the gallery.

 

[Blackboxr1200S]

That's some serious jacket and vintage p*rn collected, Jan.
Excellent work

 

[B-Man2]

Outstanding Jan !!
Well done

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Agreed. That's really some resource.

 

[Dumpster D]

Excellent!!!

 

[Spitfireace]

I put my hand up for that one! Please Sir can I have some more?