PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - V Bombers: Flying without a Helmet
View Single Post
Old 12th Apr 2007, 14:41
  #5 (permalink)  
Pontius Navigator
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lincolnshire
Age: 81
Posts: 16,777
Received 5 Likes on 5 Posts
In the 60s the kit was simply a G-Helmet to carry the M, P or Q mask with th eold Mk 1 bone dome for take-off and landing. It was not normal when they were first issued for read crew to have a visor or visor track fitted. There was no need foreseen as the crew flew in darkness.

Bone domes were probably a fairly recent innovation, Flatus Veteranus can probably give more gen. We certainly had them when flying in the Varsity and Meteor.
Pontius Navigator is offline