Long strange trip I've been on......

[Spitfireace]

I got the bug approximately 15 twenty years ago. Since then, much money spent, much knowledge gained, a lot of closet and drawer space taken up. Many friends gained on here. All in all a good time.... and you?

 

[John Lever]

Got the bug 42 years ago. Realised there is no cure.....

 

[Spitfireace]

You do realize you can't wear two jackets at once?

 

[Spitfireace]

You have been on the trail of the perfect jacket........

 

[ausreenactor]

You do realize you can't wear two jackets at once?

Ahem.. Three is the benchmark. Two A-2s and a B-3.

 

[Spitfireace]

lol. what an A-2 with a Bk-3 on top?

 

[Spitfireace]

It was for me, a gift jacket from a friend. He got it from a friend as a gift. It was too small for my friend so he gave it to me for work performed as a mechanic at the time. So there it is. The jacket that started my moniker as Spitfireace.

 

[Spitfireace]

 

[Spitfireace]

Looks like the real stuff to me. I love that red rayon. Great stuff.

 

[Spitfireace]

Micawber I'm talking to you.

 

[Spitfireace]

Actually, I see I should have called this thread the "what jacket got you first started on this journey". I'm afraid I've been rather isolated lately, and my social graces are not as refined as I'd like them to be. Mainly sitting in the flat drinking beer. Making some food. Kraft Dinner.

 

[tjoenn]

Early 90''s when I saw an add for Eastman in an airport somewhere I think, maybe it was one of the inflight magazines. Called and ordered a catalog, received the sleeve with inserts that I still have, but couldn't afford any jacket being a student. Early 2000's, got the Golden Book and finally ordered my first B-3 which I sold in 2015 as I lost some weight. 5 years and 9 jackets later....

 

[s4rmark]

Sometime in the 1970’s when I bought a cheap “Bomber jacket” from an ad in the back pages of the News of the world Sunday Newspaper.my first repro was an Eastman bought sometime in the 90’s from the Biggin Hill Air Show. I’m not sure which came first , the Roughwear B-10 or the Luftwaffe, as it was called then. I still have both jackets, the Madness has worsened as I have aged!

 

[B-Man2]

My first A2 jacket was an Avirex repro . I was a single guy riding my Harley around and one day I met this little hottie at a street party and she wanted a ride on my bike . The sun was going down and she was chilly so I gave her my A2 to wear and the next day when I took her home and dropped her off she was still wearing my A2. I tried a couple of times to get that jacket back, but for some reason I let her keep it . We dated for a while and then we both moved on . I replaced the jacket with a Harley jacket but never forgot that A2 or the little hottie who talked me out of it

 

[MikeyB-17]

I had a couple of A-2 /G-1 style mall jackets, zip-in linings and collars etc., until I heard about ELC and saved up until I could afford a steerhide house A-2. Gave it a good hammering for nearly 20 years. Sold it a few years ago, missed it and bought another last year.

 

[Spitfireace]

My first A2 jacket was an Avirex repro . I was a single guy riding my Harley around and one day I met this little hottie at a street party and she wanted a ride on my bike . The sun was going down and she was chilly so I gave her my A2 to wear and the next day when I took her home and dropped her off she was still wearing my A2. I tried a couple of times to get that jacket back, but for some reason I let her keep it . We dated for a while and then we both moved on . I replaced the jacket with a Harley jacket but never forgot that A2 or the little hottie who talked me out of it

Good story!