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Announced on IG today that they will also make the same re-dye jacket without patches.
Seems like a better move if your'e trying to sell them...Announced on IG today that they will also make the same re-dye jacket without patches.
Announced on IG today that they will also make the same re-dye jacket without patches.
Yes Steve McQueen was cool...sometimes, but I am in that 10% who saw the A2 in other things.Pretty cool. I'd stick my neck out and say that - at least here in Europe - Steve Macqueen in The Great Escape is 90% of why anyone under 60 ever bought an A2... I'm sure this is a response to people wanting the Hilts jackets over the years. Also a nice showcase for what is possible for ELC. (And to prove it works as marketing, this is the first ELC thread I've seen round here in a while, and look how quickly it's grown...).
Nothing bad about your introduction at all. Jimmy Stewart was about as genuine as it gets, and "Hogan's Heroes" was wildly popular and watched by millions and millions during its run, and it still is loved, so you had good motivation.Not sure if it's good or bad that Hogan's Heroes and Jimmy Stewart were my introductions to the A-2. But there you have it.
Pretty cool. I'd stick my neck out and say that - at least here in Europe - Steve Macqueen in The Great Escape is 90% of why anyone under 60 ever bought an A2... I'm sure this is a response to people wanting the Hilts jackets over the years. Also a nice showcase for what is possible for ELC. (And to prove it works as marketing, this is the first ELC thread I've seen round here in a while, and look how quickly it's grown...).
Where is the evidence that it was a 16159 RW as opposed to a RW 27752?
I do have concerns about the re-dye process. Gary Eastman is very critical of the process in his A2 Flight Jacket book as it often leads to skinning the surface of the leather. I hope this does not happen with the new ELC Hilts A2.
Well it was Biggles in the Eagle strip for me. He used to fly around the Pacific islands in a Sunderland flying boat wearing an A2 in one story. God knows what he was doing. Ginger was never into leather though...
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He got around, that Biggles. I liked his Barnstormer. Was he on loan to the USAAF in those days? By the time the A2 was being issued, he'd have been quite the veteran!
He never got old, he just stayed young and kept flying. A true Peter Pan figure. He wore the A2 when he was an 'air detective' post war if memory serves...
http://www.wejohns.com/The Eagle/Blue05.jpg