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Service Dress Cap of a Field Officer
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 75/U/734
Peaked cap with pale blue-grey crown, black mohair band and black patent leather chin strap and peak. The peak decorated with one row of gold oak leaf embroidery. On the band the RAF officers' cap badge of a crown in gold and silver wire embroidery and coloured silks above a gilt metal eagle above two pairs of gold wire laurel leaves.
SD, Female Officer's, B/G, Ptn 1994
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X004-3557
Peaked cap with an angled crown in blue-grey fabric, deeper at the front than the rear. The top of the crown so cut and stitched as to provide an oval indented shape with a raised centre. A wire stiffener inside the crown to retain the shape. Black mohair band bearing the standard officers' cap badge. Blue-grey fabric covered peak. Plastic chin strap.
Service Dress Hat of Women's Auxiliary Air Force Other Ranks
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X003-3619
Blue-grey, soft fabric cap with the crown gathered into a band covered by a separate black mohair band bearing the RAF Airmen's cap badge in gilding metal. Plain black leather peak and chin strap. Repair (poorly) made to crown of cap above right side of peak; owner's name and service number written on inside of peak.
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.
Microtelephone Assembly Type 1
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 67/R/424
Combination instrument comprising a pair of headphones mounted on a polished steel support made up of two strips on metal with screw clamps at the ends permitting the headphones to be raised or lowered and a Y shaped Bakelite piece holding a microphone and a speaking horn suspended round the operator's neck by a clip-on cotton tape. The microphone and headphones connected by electrical wiring terminating in a large jack plug.
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.
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.
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.
Aircrew Helmet Mark 1
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 66/U/1166
Moulded shell made from bonded, laminated nylon fabric, lined throughout in leather and with a leather-covered brow cushion across the front. The edge of the casing trimmed with black moulded rubber binding. The interior fitted with a light, man-made fibre webbing harness to hold the shell off the head. Harness attached to the shell by white metal tabs riveted through. The helmet is worn over a Type F blue cotton flying helmet.The exterior of the helmet fitted with two male press-studs on the lower rear sides to retain straps for a detachable visor. Adjustable light webbing chin strap fitted on press-studs (missing). The shell painted silver overall.
RAF, Mk. 4B, Green
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1996/0426/U
Aircrew protective helmet consisting of a rigid glass fibre shell painted green. Styrene liner with 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. Oxygen mask hooks on sides of face aperture. Helmet is fitted with a twin visor assembly with controls in housing on the left. A cross of reflective tape is fitted to the top of the helmet. Chin strap with quick locking buckle and Velcro adjustment.