Has anyone experience with this jacket?
https://www.flying-jacket.com/jackets/leather-flying-jackets/the-faa-jacket-with-cold-weather-lining/
It's the British Fleet Air Arm (Naval Aviation) authorized jacket. It is shown in this photo with a Velcro patch for ID attachment, but the civilian...
I've done a lot of research on collar stands. I understand what an why, but I have not seen anything near a consensus on them.
If you had a choice between a jacket with a collar stand and one without, which would you take?
Specifically, if you had a choice between a replica A-2 Mark 41...
OK, I know I'm stirring a hornets' nest here, but what the heck.
From reviewing about three millennia of photos on this site, I note that people like a tight-fitting jacket, for the most part. A-2s and G-1s that I have seen are usually pretty trimly fit.
Well, I have to disagree...
I had an LL Bean Flying Tigers jacket for years. In fact, I've bought three of them over the years, and both sons received them after I outgrew them. I was perfectly happy with the jackets. Loved them, in fact.
Well. The last one I bought I got as an impulse purchase at an LL Bean outlet...
Excelled has cut the price for a G-1 to $310, which seems to me a better than good price. From reading this board for months, I know how much you all seem to like the Excelled.
Any tips before I pull the ripcord on this? I would be particularly interested in Thor's opinion. I would expect to...
I know you all are going to jump on me, because I'm more a function over form guy.
I had an LL Bean bomber jacket (sic) that I loved for many years, but after it shrank in the closet I passed it to my thinner son. I love the look of the G-1, but I also love the look of the A-2. Even though...
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