Pilot Shirts -Where can you buy a good one from?
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Pilot Shirts -Where can you buy a good one from?
Could someone please tell me where you can buy a good quality, ideally 100% cotton, breathable, well fitting pilot shirt as I have been flying for 11 years now and am fed up with the usual rotten rubbish that is provided as standard...
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Not 100% Cotton but try here.. Pilotshirts.com (Pilot House, Inc) - pilot uniform shirts, pilot supplies
I used to wear Van Heusen Aviator shirts which I think are fairly decent quality, although they are 65% poly and 35% cotton.
Pilot Shirts by Van Heusen (VanHeusen)
Jim
I used to wear Van Heusen Aviator shirts which I think are fairly decent quality, although they are 65% poly and 35% cotton.
Pilot Shirts by Van Heusen (VanHeusen)
Jim
Might as well order up your hat to go with the shirt too....
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See if you can source the Royal Navy officer shirt - good quality soft cotton, short sleeves, epaulettes, pockets with no flaps etc. I bought 3 on Ebay years ago and they are still good as new.
As I am retired from all this good fun....I will put on an auction of my "old" Pilot Shirts. I have hand tailored shirts from Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines, store bought versions from the USA, company issued from the UK, and a bunch that were bought from various soucks, bazaars, and flea sales along with some that I found on the road side or in rubbish bins. Alas, I cannot hock the ones I lost along the way (or the lovely Navy leather flying jacket donated to a girlfriend's husband very early one frosty morning on the north end of London). In time, I shall put forth an inventory, with a general discription of the item, and a minimum bid price.
Those from my S-58T days can be id'd by the spiffy pink stained left sleeve and shoulder, the Hughes 500 days attire are well worn canvas, wool, and chamios versions. The Chinook shirts are all Olive Green with concealed buttons or zips (one with tattered and charred sleeve ends) while the MBB line all have blood, burrito, and Beanee-Weanee stains. My middle east special blend shirts all feature whopping great gray patches beneath the arms. The regal Jet Ranger long sleeve versions all have a black ring about halfway up the forearms. Other shirts accumulated during many years of 212 flying appear to have been used as grease rags and are not suitable for VIP flights. Those purchased or supplied and replaced by the company as needed are all in relatively good shape, some still in the pristine clear cello wrapper while those purchased and maintained personally are worn, used, patcheds, rotten, and have terminal ring around the collar on the remaining fabric. The 500 shirts are of great use on safari, big game hunts, or lounging around a bush bar.
Look here for the auction hotline.
Those from my S-58T days can be id'd by the spiffy pink stained left sleeve and shoulder, the Hughes 500 days attire are well worn canvas, wool, and chamios versions. The Chinook shirts are all Olive Green with concealed buttons or zips (one with tattered and charred sleeve ends) while the MBB line all have blood, burrito, and Beanee-Weanee stains. My middle east special blend shirts all feature whopping great gray patches beneath the arms. The regal Jet Ranger long sleeve versions all have a black ring about halfway up the forearms. Other shirts accumulated during many years of 212 flying appear to have been used as grease rags and are not suitable for VIP flights. Those purchased or supplied and replaced by the company as needed are all in relatively good shape, some still in the pristine clear cello wrapper while those purchased and maintained personally are worn, used, patcheds, rotten, and have terminal ring around the collar on the remaining fabric. The 500 shirts are of great use on safari, big game hunts, or lounging around a bush bar.
Look here for the auction hotline.
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Pilot shirts in South Africa too
Hi
Near to the Johannesburg airport-of-entry ( O.R.Tambo Int.) is Boundary Silk Bazaar, where they sell long or short -sleeve pilot shirts of fair quality.
At Lanseria Airport -north of Johannesburg( also a airport-of-entry) is The Pilot Shop, which sells pilot shirts,epaulettes & caps.
At a factory-excess shop my dear wife found inexpensively priced but top-quality "Arrow" brand shirts;with double-cuffs on the sleeves, which she modified to single-cuffs & from those cut-off's she made the epaulettes. Cut off the sleeves & you have plenty of material for epaulettes or a 2nd patch pocket.
Near to the Johannesburg airport-of-entry ( O.R.Tambo Int.) is Boundary Silk Bazaar, where they sell long or short -sleeve pilot shirts of fair quality.
At Lanseria Airport -north of Johannesburg( also a airport-of-entry) is The Pilot Shop, which sells pilot shirts,epaulettes & caps.
At a factory-excess shop my dear wife found inexpensively priced but top-quality "Arrow" brand shirts;with double-cuffs on the sleeves, which she modified to single-cuffs & from those cut-off's she made the epaulettes. Cut off the sleeves & you have plenty of material for epaulettes or a 2nd patch pocket.
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Pilots Shirts
Hi !
Dont mess about ,get OLYMP pilots shirts ,you can order online ,not the cheapest but fantastic quality,last ages and if you are passing through Cannes Madelieu they are available to buy there in the pilots shop .Enjoy !
Dont mess about ,get OLYMP pilots shirts ,you can order online ,not the cheapest but fantastic quality,last ages and if you are passing through Cannes Madelieu they are available to buy there in the pilots shop .Enjoy !
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Oh Sassy, send them over.
I do appreciate they would have to come as a IATA Dangerous Good Package.
With Armpit Yellow stains from all those dark dark night approaches and aborts from the Queens Palace or T’s Lounge in West Palm.
Not to mention the Spag dribbles when the feet were up and the poor lowly F/O was pushing the steed back home.
And the 48D waistline shape to catch all those dribbles..
Send them over old fella…..!!
I do appreciate they would have to come as a IATA Dangerous Good Package.
With Armpit Yellow stains from all those dark dark night approaches and aborts from the Queens Palace or T’s Lounge in West Palm.
Not to mention the Spag dribbles when the feet were up and the poor lowly F/O was pushing the steed back home.
And the 48D waistline shape to catch all those dribbles..
Send them over old fella…..!!
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Lost & Found?
Sas Old bean - you didn't by any chance leave some of the yellow armpit variety in Escravos during night stops did you?
That would explain where Peetah Storey found the ones he wore between 2001 and 2007!
They are probably still flying around Transvaal somewhere
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Trog
p.s. Alouette - do you still wear your BB PILOThat with the Admiral scrambled egg?
That would explain where Peetah Storey found the ones he wore between 2001 and 2007!
They are probably still flying around Transvaal somewhere
!Trog
p.s. Alouette - do you still wear your BB PILOThat with the Admiral scrambled egg?
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Uniforms?
So who decided to make us wear a uniform which resembles the one a fixed wing pilot wears?
On the other hand I wonder where the unwritten convention originated whereby helicopter pilots in certain areas of the World seem to gravitate to becoming so attached to baseball caps (preferably with more adornments than a Far Eastern Head of State on walkabout (e.g. Marcos, Mahathir Mohamed, etc.)
It appears sometimes that surgical intervention would be required to remove these items of head gear as they are worn apparently 24 hours a day even when eating and possibly even sleeping!
This seems inextricably linked to the wearing of lots of gold bars and big watches as soon as they leave the Titusville circuit (sorry pattern!)
I didn't offend you I hope!
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Sweat stained vest, jeans and tatty RM Williams boots may be all the rage in the Northern Territory heliringer but I don't think my passengers would be terribly impressed if I turned up dressed like that. They know that I am a pilot as I wear white shirt and bars so I don't have to wear the greasy 'PILOT' baseball cap either alouette.
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As for the uniforms...
hey Trogs!!!
Never worn baseball caps with "scrambled" whatever...I don't know where that comes from?!? Don't you know me at all?!?
Anyways, why do I have to look like a poof when I work in an environment which makes you sweat like a pig, and the shirt/pants stick like chewing gum....brrrrrrrrr
Never worn baseball caps with "scrambled" whatever...I don't know where that comes from?!? Don't you know me at all?!?
Anyways, why do I have to look like a poof when I work in an environment which makes you sweat like a pig, and the shirt/pants stick like chewing gum....brrrrrrrrr