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Sorry to get back to the Thread, (perhaps it's just as well !), but does anyone remember the blue-grey things that we said must have been designed by a woman - in that the top zip just didn't come down far enough. or the bottom zip just high enough, to be "fit for purpose" ? 
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Danny ...
I think you are referring to the early 'Blue' (seen here on the right) ... I believe the 'Grey' (seen on the left) superseded the 'Blue' ... but I could be wrong. No doubt one of our Suqipper members will correct me
Not a velcro strip in sight ... and you weren't properly dressed unless you wore a tie
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I think you are referring to the early 'Blue' (seen here on the right) ... I believe the 'Grey' (seen on the left) superseded the 'Blue' ... but I could be wrong. No doubt one of our Suqipper members will correct me
Not a velcro strip in sight ... and you weren't properly dressed unless you wore a tie
Image Credit : Crown, MOD, RAF, IWM
PS. That's a proper Flight Line
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@ Nutloose and Orac
DOn't tyou both think the PLAAF leather flight jackets looks suspiciously like the ones from Aviation leathercraft offered to serving aircrew only or the Aviation Aircrew Jacket?
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DOn't tyou both think the PLAAF leather flight jackets looks suspiciously like the ones from Aviation leathercraft offered to serving aircrew only
or the Aviation Aircrew Jacket?Cheers
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CS, no, there were 3, the light blue temperate was the Mk2, the slate grey Mk4 was winter and the cold weather one wad also slate grey.
The jacket and trousers came as a one piece but you could separate the parts
The trousers had grey braces, the top had a tail crotch strap. It was lined with a blanket type material.
Matching gloves were gauntlets much prized by MTD. They were brown leather but different shades for left and right ad they were issued as EA and different contractors!
The blue and grey were replaced by green equivalents.
The jacket and trousers came as a one piece but you could separate the parts
The trousers had grey braces, the top had a tail crotch strap. It was lined with a blanket type material.
Matching gloves were gauntlets much prized by MTD. They were brown leather but different shades for left and right ad they were issued as EA and different contractors!
The blue and grey were replaced by green equivalents.
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Thanks PN ... My first one was the Grey with only one perspex knee pad on the right leg with a flapped small knee pocket on the left leg (I think this was originally designed for the First Aid Kit). But velcro had just been discovered ... which was used to secure the knee pocket flap, waist tapes and epaulettes. So I guess this was a yet further Mk(5?) ... thence replaced (for me) with a 'shapeless' Green Mk11 (I think).
The J-P 3 line-up is between 7/60 and 7/62 as XM456/18 crashed later during spin trials with fuel in tips...
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Thanks for the info' - there was I thinking the stude' on the left was my schoolmate Pete Adhemar and he was at Leeming in '66.
chopper2004 - reminds me of the old saying 'you don't get many of those for a lb (pound)'.
chopper2004 - reminds me of the old saying 'you don't get many of those for a lb (pound)'.
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