Probably the finest flight jacket book, ever!!
Released in 1991, amazing new copy
This book has over 368 pages of full color and b/w photos showing historical pictures of original flight jackets.
It covers everything of this subject like:
labels, history and development of the American Flight Jacket, zippers, sewing drawings, early pre-A2 models, blood chits, survival vests, and jackets such as the A-1, A-2, A-2 painted jackets, L-2 series, US Naval Flying Suits of the 1950s and 1960s, Vietnam era flight jackets, B-6, B-1, Naval Leather Flying Jackets, modern G-1, B-10 series, B-15 series, A-11 series, MA-1 series, flight suits, extreme weather jackets, B-7, B-9, test sample jackets, deck parkas, deck jackets, and much more...
Contents:
1. Concepts of flight jackets;
2. Details of flight jackets for different models, eras, in all aspects;
3. History and development of flight jackets;
4. Encyclopedia of flight jackets and suits.
With thousands of rare and beautiful historical pictures of avaitor in flight suits, gallery close-ups of different models, historical documents, drawings, etc, from 1900s to 1970s.
This book is not just a magazine with a few pages of relevent contents, but a whole collector's bible.
Text is in Japanese with English headings, this book is mainly photo book. Historical documents are in English.
Dimension: 21cm x 28.5cm, all color except historical photos / papers in black and white.
Thick and heavy book, shipping is $24 worldwide via media airmail with tracking number, fast and safe. Please check out my other cool listings to save shipping charges as I will combine shippments with low additional charges.
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