Originally Posted by
TBM-Legend
No pilot's wings on the tunic. Could be the gent's old WW2 uniform cleaned for safe keeping.
Why are people perpetuating that rubbish?
Looks like its been wrapped by an old fashioned laundry or dry cleaner. I recall clothes in the '50's being folded and wrapped in brown paper and tied with string.
Referring to the uniform as a pilot's uniform is simply typical of modern civilian organisations, they just can't be bothered to do any real research. Despite being dedicated groundcrew from recruitment to retirement, civilians always opened with the question what do you fly? I think the groundcrew to aircrew ratio when I joined was around 90:1. Watch the film "Lancaster Nights" to see some really bad examples of this effect.