Best photos of famous people wearing true vintage leather jackets (military, but not only)

[taikonaut]

I'm not a fan of this upcomming Captain Marvel movie but it seems they have taken this feminist agenda even to this fantasy A2 jacket

 

[johnwayne]

Hey Taikonaut, like you my Dubow is same contract with removed tag and patch, very similar colour and leather grain from what I can see but without rushing to the wardrobe, I'm pretty positive the box stitching on the epaulet isn't that wide/big! The removed patch is unusual in that it's wasn't the 5" circular squadron/group style but was a small upright rectangle with an arc/h above and name tag above in reg position - there is a name and number inside that I'm researching into, however before anyone shouts, I know I've gone off thread, sorry chaps!!

 

[Flightengineer]

Test pilot Edward Elyan. December 31, 1968, Tupolev supersonic Tu-144's maiden flight.

 

[taikonaut]

Past few days I've been getting stares from students while wearing my old Cooper A2. I wore that jacket for many years and nobody took any interest not since the couple of years after Memphis Belle was realeased in the early 90s. It suddenly clicked on me that a certain superhero movie being shown in cinema.

BTW I'm not going to see that movie

 

[Flightengineer]

Robert Mason

 

[Flightengineer]

58 years ago in this April's day this man became the first man in Space.

 

[Lorenzo_l]

58 years ago in this April's day this man became the first man in Space.

Very nice picture of Gagarin, Dmitry. Thanks for posting. Is that a Soviet pilot's jacket he's wearing?

 

[Flightengineer]

Very nice picture of Gagarin, Dmitry. Thanks for posting. Is a that a Soviet pilot's jacket he'e wearing?

Yes.

 

[dinomartino1]

marlene dietrich and jean gabin

 

[B-Man2]

Dimitry
Great Photos!.....
Thanks for posting..

 

[B-Man2]

Robert Mason

Very nice picture of Gagarin, Dmitry. Thanks for posting. Is that a Soviet pilot's jacket he's wearing?

Didn't know that there was a Huey Forum..
Thanks

 

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Tim Conway and Joe Flynn from McHale's Navy

 

[John Lever]

My favourite

 

[Smithy]

You may very well already know this but if not...

That's Wild Bill Hopson, one of the very first mail pilots in the States.

 

[John Lever]

You may very well already know this but if not...

That's Wild Bill Hopson, one of the very first mail pilots in the States.

Thanks I knew he was a mail pilot but had forgotten his name.

 

[Smithy]

Have a read up on him and the other early mail pilots in the US as they are fascinating and brave guys, often flying under terrible conditions.

I can't remember whether it was Wild Bill or another one but there was one time when one of these guys was flying and it was complete cloud cover right down to the deck and it was then that the plane's clock packed up. The pilot had been smoking a cigar since take off and using some quick maths calculated how far he had flown in the time to smoke the stogie. He thus worked out that he needed to smoke so many more cigars (and it was something with fractions like 3 and 3/4) to reach his destination. He smoked the required stogies, dropped through the cloud and there he was right over the airport!

 

[John Lever]

Dead reckoning? Depending on the tar content

 

[Smithy]

James Goodson of the 4th FG always maintained that smoking saved his life. After getting shot down, his German captors were going to shoot him and asked him if there was anything he wanted to do before they did so. He asked for a cigar and one of the Germans happening to have one gave him one. Goody started blowing smoke rings something the Jerry had never seen before. Goody started teaching the bloke how to do it and because of this the German was so pleased he delivered Goodson to a POW camp rather than shooting him on the spot!

 

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marlene dietrich and jean gabin

Dietrich could make men's clothes look as sexy as any Hollywood gown.

 

[dinomartino1]

Ava Gardner