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Service Dress Cap of a Women's Royal Air Force Air Officer
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X002-8362
Blue-grey Barathea cap with black mohair band and patent leather peak and chin strap. The peak decorated with two rows of gold wire oak leaf embroidery, the band bearing the Air Officers' cap badge. No false peak at rear. The crown formed from a crescent of fabric stitched around an oval panel at the rear of the head, this panel cleft and gathered to shape. In storage box.
RAF, Suede, Ptn 1943
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 75/U/26
Black boot to just below knee. The foot formed as a leather lace-up shoe with toe cap, the leg of black suede with full length zip up outer, front side and with black leather fastening tab and buckle at top. The leg sewn to a projecting lip around the top of the shoe and designed to be cut away after baling out in enemy territory so as to leave an ordinary-looking black shoe. Leather soles and heels. Both elements lined throughout in sheepskin. Left foot.
OR's, B/G, Ptn 1941 Converted
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1990/0701/U
Single-breasted, four button, four pocket jacket with collar and lapels and integral fabric belt. Pleated, flap and button breast pockets, flap and button inset skirt pockets. Rear vent. All buttons and buckle gilding metal. Sleeves bear from top to bottom, shoulder eagles and LACW badges on upper arms. Conversion refers to the application of buttons to the lower pockets and the provision of button holes in the pocket flaps to make the jacket look like the original, 1939 Pattern garment.
Heated Goggles
Aircraft & Exhibits, Array, 70/U/665
Brown leather oval mask including nose cover retaining pear-shaped, assymetrical yellow alloy frames lacquered black, on spring loaded, fabric-covered sides with clear windows, hinged on centre line. Sandwiched between the layers of safety glass an electrical heating filament which is connected to terminals positioned on the top of the frames close to the central hinge. Lining fur, the edges of the frames covered in chenille padding. Brown elastic, adjustable head strap. With modern presentation case. In fitted wooden case with red padding.
Full Dress Helmet of an Officer
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 71/U/1185
Black leather skull cap trimmed with - 'seal dyed nutria' - black fur so as to leave a circular leather patch in front and two small triangular patches at rear. Front patch decorated with a badge of a flying eagle in silver superimposed on a gold ring lettered PER ARDUA AD ASTRA with crown above, mounted in front of a plume socket which is holding a B/G ostrich feather plume. At the front, attached to the fur and reaching round to the centre of both sides is a gold coloured plaited chain.
RAF Central Band Full Dress Helmet
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X003-6842
Oval-shaped, blocked headdress covered with rabbit fur dyed black and bearing across the front a plaited gold and dark blue cord suspended from two small uniform buttons. On the inside these buttons secure the attachment points of the gilt metal chin chain. The front of the headdress decorated with the large Bandsman's gold wire embroidered cap badge and, fitted behind it, a bright, mid-blue nylon hackle with gold braid round the point at which the nylon ends and the fixing blade begins.
Princess Mary's RAF Nursing Service Shoulder Board
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 77/U/133
Stiffened panel covered in crimson Melton cut pointed at the inner end and straight at outer end which bears one stripe of normal width pale blue lace and one stripe of narrow lace for a Matron in Chief. The buttonhole, a brass tube designed to take a threaded post button. The underside lined in black cotton and with a full length narrow black leather strap intended to pass through loops on he shoulders of the cape and pierced at the pointed end to receive the threaded post button.
Flying Helmet
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1993/0408/U
Brown leather helmet lined in chamois and with velvet brow band and chin strap lining. The ear positions pierced with a large hole fitted with a black plastic ring-housing for Gosport tubes. An adjustable elastic tightening strap threaded between the outer layer and the lining passes across the back of the helmet at low ear level. Adjustment is by a tiny hook on right side. Vertical buckled goggles retaining strap centre rear. Chin strap on right engages with leather-covered buckle on left. This example fitted with Gosport tubes. Condition - good, displayable but the foam rubber padding obviously hardened and fragmenting.
Air Training Corps Brassard
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 82/U/632
Panel of blue-grey cotton fabric of roughly triangular shape fitted with an elastic strap at its lower end and with a buttonhole and loop at its upper end,bearing from top to bottom - 1289 Squadron badge, AIR TRAINING CORPS shouldertitle in curved two line form, Leading Cadet badge and Marksman badge, all embroidered in pale blue on dark blue woollen patches. Designed to be worn on the upper sleeve of the 1972 Pattern sweater secured to the shoulderstrap by the upper loop and round the arm by the lower loop as it was impossible, satisfactorily, to sew badges onto the sweater.
RAF, Mk. 30L
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1994/0232/S
Green nylon waistcoat with mesh backing, broad adjustment straps fitted to waistband and fastening in the front with a slotted plate which accommodates the oxygen regulator. The front part enclosing a Day-Glo orange inflatable stole, the waistband incorporating pockets for a radio beacon and other survival gear. A strap in the rear and a press studded flap on left waist provide support for the Personal Equipment Connector which supplies oxygen and communications linkage to the Ejector Seat. Small wedding loop for mike cord on the left breast. Pull for Co2 cylinder on the lower right (pull missing).