Regular military issue helicopter pilot flight gloves
Sep 20, 2020 16:41:38 #
davidrb wrote:
Went through many, many pair of these nomex gloves. The leather on the palms got soaked with moisture and then became hard as stone when it dried. Personal equipment guys used to hand out new ones like the were Halloween candy. The made great driving gloves.
We were issued the leather flight gloves going through flight training, but when I got to Vietnam, we were all issued the nomex gloves. I used them for riding my motorcycle for a long time after I got out.
Sep 20, 2020 17:48:38 #
davidrb wrote:
Went through many, many pair of these nomex gloves. The leather on the palms got soaked with moisture and then became hard as stone when it dried. Personal equipment guys used to hand out new ones like the were Halloween candy. The made great driving gloves.
Wow.
Sep 20, 2020 19:52:25 #
Many years ago Fairchild Hiller Aircraft published 'My Big Helicopter Coloring Book" for one of the major aviation industry shows, in it one cartoon shows a Helicopter Pilot with the caption, "This is our chief test pilot. He is brave, dashing, daring and rugged. He is out of his mind. We lock him at night!"
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