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Aircrew Helmet Mk 10
Aircraft & Exhibits, Array, 1996/0412/U
Aircrew Light Protective Helmet Assembly (ALPHA). Green, Kevlar, helmet shell with expanded foam liner incorporating a pad in the crown and leather covered foam pads front and rear. Adjustable nylon webbing neck strap in the rear with foam pad. Ear capsules, fitted with finger loops to aid donning, are attached to nylon straps which can be loosed by external clips on each side of the helmet. Wired with NATO jack plug exiting the rear of the helmet and microphone connector externally on the lower left side. Helmet is fitted with a twin visor assembly and has a cloth visor cover attached to the assembly via press studs. The visors have locking systems on both sides. A cross of reflective tape is fitted to the top of the helmet. Chin strap with quick locking buckle and Velcro adjustment. This example fitted with oxygen mask hooks.
US Air Force Flying Helmet Type P-4A
Aircraft & Exhibits, Array, X004-4422
Protective helmet with rubber edge trim. Leather and webbing internal suspension system to keep the shell off the wearer's head. Fitted internally with padded earphones for which the connector lead enters at rear of shell. Microphone plug-in point below left ear on exterior of helmet. The helmet fit can be adjusted by means of laces pierced through the shell which connect with straps internally. A tinted visor is held on a pivotting armature with a locking pin running in line with a rail positioned vertically on the front of the helmet. A pull-out locking pin enables the visor to be raised by a spring connected to the armature. Oxygen mask attachment points at each side of the face aperture operate by two pinch levers which release serrated tongues fitted to either side of the mask suspension system. Off white with dark blue zigzag pattern.
Aircrew Helmet Mark 4A
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1996/0427/U
Aircrew protective helmet consisting of a rigid glass fibre shell painted green. Styrene liner incorporating a cut-out in the crown which is filled with foam rubber pad. Adjustable nylon webbing neck strap and cradle to separate head from lining. Leather covered foam pads front and rear. Ear capsules, fitted with finger loops to aid donning, are attached via Velcro pads to nylon straps which can be loosed by external clips on each side of the helmet. Wired with NATO jack plug exiting the rear of the helmet and microphone connector externally on the lower left side. Helmet is fitted with a twin visor assembly. A cross of reflective tape is fitted to the top of the helmet. Chin strap with quick locking buckle and Velcro adjustment. This example fitted with a Selic boom mike and a track for NVG equipment.
Medal Bar of Marshal of the RAF Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 72/D/1074
Distinguished Service Order, ERVII Queen's South Africa Medal, with clasps TRANSVAAL, ORANGE FREE STATE and CAPE COLONY, edge engraved Capt. H.M. TRENCHARD: Rl: Scots: Fus: King's South Africa Medal, with clasps, SOUTH AFRICA 1901 and SOUTH AFRICA 1902, edge engraved Maj. H.M. TRENCHARD. Rl. Scts. Fus. Africa General Service Medal 1902, with clasps N. NIGERIA 1904, S. NIGERIA 1904-05 and S. NIGERIA 1905-06, edge impressed MAJOR H.M. TRENCHARD. S.N. REGT. 1914 Star, with clasp 5TH August. - 22ND November. 1914, reverse impressed LT. COL. H.M. TRENCHARD. C.B. D.S.O. R.S. FUS. ATTD. R.F.C. War Medal 1914-1918, edge impressed MAJ. GEN. SIR H.M. TRENCHARD. R.A.F. Victory Medal, with Mention in Despatches, edge impressed MAJ. GEN. SIR H.M. TRENCHARD. R.A.F. Silver Jubilee Medal 1935 Coronation Medal 1937 Coronation Medal 1953 Croix de Guerre1914-1918, Belgium Distinguished Service Medal, USA Mounted overlapping, sewn down.
Flying Helmet Type D
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 79/U/448
Sand, cotton twill helmet lined in silk constructed in strips passing from front to rear of the wearer's head with a brow band, lined in velvet. Small neck flap attached to the rear. Fitted with circular, black rubber telephone holders with chamois pads. Three male press studs on the left side and a hook on the right of the face aperture for connection of Type E*/ G Oxygen Masks. Elasticated chin strap with press stud closure. Centre rear fitted with short buckled strap to retain goggles strap. A pair of vertical leather tabs sewn at top and with press studs at bottom placed behind telephone holders to steady goggles strap. A small leather tab is provided in the centre rear of the helmet to secure a wiring loom which is then fed through press studded tabs and then channels to the telephone receivers and to a microphone plug on the left. Type 2091 Connector and Type 32 Telephone Receivers fitted to this example.
Aircrew Helmet Mark 3A
Aircraft & Exhibits, Array, 1992/0180/U
Aircrew protective helmet consisting of a rigid glass fibre shell painted white. The crown of the shell has a sateen covered cork lining while a nylon webbing cradle is suspended below this. A foam backed leather lining is laced round the rim of the helmet and extends to cover the forehead and the back of the neck. An additional neck pad is provided and is adjusted by straps which exit the sides of the helmet shell. The microphone connector is housed in an aperture on the left while the jack plug exits the lining at the rear. The telephones are housed in ear capsules fitted with fluid filled ear seals and are suspended by a wire harness. Loops are attached to the ear capsules to aid donning. The helmet is fitted with a visor assembly consisting of a tinted acrylic visor attached to a central track via an operating mechanism controlled by a handle above the visor.
Aircrew Helmet Mk 3C
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1996/0436/U
Mk. 2A helmet converted to Mk. 3C standard. Aircrew protective helmet consisting of a rigid glass fibre shell painted green. The crown of the shell has a sateen covered cork lining while a nylon webbing cradle is suspended below this. A foam backed leather lining is laced round the rim of the helmet and extends to cover the forehead and the back of the neck. An additional neck pad is provided and is adjusted by straps which exit the sides of the helmet shell. The microphone connector is housed in an aperture on the left while the jack plug exits the lining at the rear. The telephones are housed in ear capsules fitted with fluid filled ear seals and are suspended by a wire harness. Loops are attached to the ear capsules to aid donning. The helmet is fitted with a twin visor assembly pivoting round the sides of the helmet consisting of a lower clear acrylic visor with a tinted visor above. A locking handle is fitted to the right of the clear visor.
RAF, Mk. I (Mae West)
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1989/0193/S
Yellow cotton waistcoat fastening with three buttons and with tie tapes across the breast and at waist level. The sections over the chest and behind the neck formed as a container for a rubberised fabric, inflatable bladder with a snap-neck gas cylinder in the right lower side and an oral inflation tube in the left breast. The snap-neck lever contained in a housing and the tube passing up round the neck in a fabric sleeve. Zip under neck pocket for access to inner compartments. Two webbing pockets at right side for electric torch and battery holder. Flourescine sea marker pad in a ripping panel on left lower side. Two pairs of webbing tapes front and back to tie between legs. Pair of webbing loop handles on chest for pulling helpless wearer out of water. Small patch pocket on left breast, closing with a press-stud for heliograph mirror. Toggle and cord let into lower left hem for securing to dighy when in the water. Fitted with set of three kapok flotation pads.
Aircrew Helmet Mark 2A
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1988/1347/U
Aircrew protective helmet consisting of a rigid glass fibre shell painted white. The crown of the shell has a sateen covered cork lining while a nylon webbing cradle is suspended below this. A foam backed leather lining is laced round the rim of the helmet and extends to cover the forehead and the back of the neck. An additional neck pad is provided and is adjusted by straps which exit the sides of the helmet shell. Oxygen mask hooks are attached to the side of the helmet and protrude through the lining. The microphone connector is housed in an aperture on the left while the jack plug exits the lining at the rear. The telephones are housed in ear capsules fitted with fluid filled ear seals and are suspended by a wire harness. Loops are attached to the ear capsules to aid donning. The helmet is fitted with a visor assembly consisting of a tinted acrylic visor with yellow plastic covered operating bar, a plastic visor cover, a visor operating and g-release mechanism with cover on the right, while a simple pivot and cover is found on the left.
RAF, Anti-G, External, Green, Mk. 2A
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X004-1240
Olive green man-made fibre 'trousers' consisting of a broad belly band with legs, but no seat, the legs consisting of panels located over the main muscle groupings of the leg - thighs and calves - and voided in front and behind the knees to facilitate movement. The belly band formed of an inflatable envelope in front and a panel of of woven string-fabric behind. The inflatable envelope fitted with a length of tube with connector which attaches to the wearer's PEC from which compressed air is fed into the inflatable belly pad which is linked to the leg sections of the trousers covering the muscle groupings. These areas are made to fit the wearer very tightly by the provision of lacing panels allowing them to be profiled exactly to the contours of the user. Both legs have full length zips running down their insides and shorter zips on the outsides of the thigh portions. Small pocket on right side of belly band. Large patch pockets with pencil tubes on both upper legs with blank panels for writing boards or maps. Two small pockets with flap and Velcro closure on lower legs. Nylon patch on right upper leg for attachment of Aircrew Emergency knife.