‘Suit Up! The Flight Jacket’ - Japanese Reference Mag

[917_k]

Evening all,

This might be of interest to someone here (not mine, I have a copy already):

Suit Up! The Flight Jacket Glossy Book with Marilyn Monroe on Front | eBay

Military Aviation clothing and Flight jackets: “SUIT UP! THE FLIGHT JACKET” edited by noted Japanese uniform expert Kesaharu Imai. It covers them all -- A-2, L-2B, CWU-36/P, B-6, M-422, AN-6552, G-1 and more.

www.ebay.co.uk

I cannot recommend this mag highly enough and whilst the content is in Japanese, the photographs are superb, think of it as the flight jacket bible. Aside from Full Gear, which is mega rare and impossible to find, I’d say this is the best flight jacket ref out there.

 

[Micawber]

I have one of those ...somewhere!

 

[ausreenactor]

I have one of those ...somewhere!

Gets like that... No idea where mine is.. Not a book so not on the book shelf...

 

[917_k]

Haha, I’m totally anal and have everything sorted on my book shelves, all correctly ordered. I love this mag/bookazine though, it’s just the perfect reference.

 

[ausreenactor]

I have my 'shit' scattered between two locations.

Gallipoli Barracks and home. I have no idea what is here and there... I took pics of the room before I left in July but there are four portarobes and four boxes. No idea what is in them... Lots of WWII kit, couple of BR repros on the hangers. And lots of books.

 

[MikeyB-17]

I have hundreds of books, not all of which I could put a hand on immediately if required, but I know exactly where my copy of ‘Suit up!’ is. My most commonly used reference.

 

[bazzer]

Hopefully getting my copy for Christmas all the way from Japan just need to learn how to read Japanese or should I just use Google translate on my phone ?
Baz

 

[MikeyB-17]

You don't really need it. The important bits are in English. The pics don't need translation.

 

[Flightengineer]

It is strange that over the years no one has yet uploaded scans of these rare books to the public.

 

[bazzer]

Yes there is nothing out there even pdfdrive has none
Baz

 

[Micawber]

There we go. I too have hundreds of books amassed over many years, as does my wife. I grew up surrounded by books on myriads of subjects - my grandfather was a modern and antiquarian book dealer. I learned more at home by dipping in and out of books than I did at school.

Reading is knowledge. Knowledge coupled with wisdom is power. Who said that, or did I just make it up?

 

[Micawber]

It is strange that over the years no one has yet uploaded scans of these rare books to the public.

Some of my author / publisher chums would have a fit reading that.

 

[Silver Surfer]

my copy is is so worn,, that the cover is separated, and pages are loose, and falling out. still, its a good look see.

 

[Micawber]

Fifty quid thou

 

[917_k]

With regards to translating the text, there is a Google Translate smart phone app where you can hold the camera over the text and it will translate it. As you’d expect it’s far from perfect, but gives an approximation of what’s being said:

As someone else has said, the value in that book as actually the superb photos.

 

[Peter Graham]

It’s a beautiful book but there’s at least one glaring error. I sold my copy to Couchy but as far as I remember the B-9 pictured or maybe the B-11 is a postwar white label civilian jacket with a split hood. How did they get it so wrong ?

 

[ausreenactor]

That you did Peter..

Here safe and sound.. somewhere.

 

[Silver Surfer]

a question posited in "do robots dream of electric sheep", "do smart phones work for dumbunnies?"

 

[ausreenactor]

Gets like that... No idea where mine is.. Not a book so not on the book shelf...

Found mine again
!