Famous People in Flight Jackets

[Treetopflyer]

Jude Law in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"

 

[TXFlyGuy]

I am confident that this jacket appears somewhere in the prior 25 pages of this thread and, therefore, I apologize in advance for the duplication. That said, I was at the Reagan Library yesterday and I came across this:

My hero...guess no one goes to Camp David anymore.

 

[Treetopflyer]

I am loving the pics of the Presidents in their G-1s. They still go to Camp David. I don't think that it's as publicized as it used to be.

 

[Treetopflyer]

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

 

[atomjet58]

Hugh O'Brien's G-1 and Noah Beery's A-2 go to Mars in Rocketship X-M 1950.
Cameron Mitchell's G-1 and Arthur Franz B-3 in Flight to Mars 1951.
Bob Burns B-3 in Major Mars 1976.
What's the deal with Mars and flight jackets?

 

[Superfluous]

Original Tuskegee Airmen:

Movie Red Tails:

 

[Seb Lucas]

Original Tuskegee Airmen:

They look like a reasonably loose fit. Nice shot.

 

[AustinTX]

http://pacweb.alamo.edu/interactive...ldWarII/Veterans/Coggs-Bernal/bombardiers.jpg

I actually met Granville Coleridge Coggs (top row, third from the left) a couple of years ago at the San Antonio Airport. Something about him drew me to begin talking to him. He could not have been a nicer fellow (same goes for his charming wife). Coggs trained initially as a bombardier, then went to pilot training but hadn't deployed by war's end, attended Harvard Medical School after the war, and became a radiologist. Very impressive man.

 

[Doctor Damage]

 

[Doctor Damage]

JFK's jacket sold for $570,000 a year ago:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...6649/JFKs-bomber-jacket-sells-for-570000.html

 

[atomjet58]

I remember a movie where the main character wears an A-2 for the entire film. He never takes it off.
George Raft wears one for about half of a film. I always wondered why characters in films about the navy
seem to wear A-2s a lot. Is it just bad research?

 

[Seb Lucas]

I remember a movie where the main character wears an A-2 for the entire film. He never takes it off.
George Raft wears one for about half of a film. I always wondered why characters in films about the navy
seem to wear A-2s a lot. Is it just bad research?

Accuracy is a recent, web influenced phenomenon. Most people still couldn't give a toss about it in films. Myself included most of the time.

 

[Doctor Damage]

Let us not forget one of the most important film characters of my generation...Oddball.

AF

Here's some guy doing a great re-enactment of Oddball:



I watched that movie again last night and thoroughly enjoyed it again.

 

[Foster]

Another Oddball:

 

[aswatland]

Robert Pattinson wearing a vintage Dubow or Perry (Please correct me if I'm wrong)

He is wearing a 1942 contract Dubow.

 

[Treetopflyer]

Rocky IV

 

[Doctor Damage]

^ Great pic, never saw that film. Nice old S-class too.

Here's some minor celebrity wearing not-really-a-flight-jacket jacket. This jacket reminds me strongly of my IDF jacket, sort of a civilianized version of an MA-1 jacket.

 

[Sloan1874]

Rocky IV

Pockets! Who gave Sly an Irvin with bloody pockets!

 

[Fanch]

:eeek:

 

[Smithy]

^ Great pic, never saw that film. Nice old S-class too.

I much prefer the car to the dodgy B-3 knock-off ( but then I've got a '69 280S )