Originally Posted by
SASless
Throat mikes were still in use by Bristow well into the late 70's perhaps early 80's.
And the RN late into the 70's.
The number of times my boom mike was removed by SE during helmet servicing 'because all other rotary pilots used throat mikes' became boring. But I tried to get a throat mike for the cameraman to use 25 years later when it seemed a good option to not hearing a thing because of wind noise when filming, funny how priorities change eh?