Technique only - wear the jacket with type 3s and if you get shipmated from three parking rows away, you know you might be wrong.
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The Great Flight Jacket Thread (wearing/buying Leather, NOMEX, WEP jackets/patches)
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I would do almost anything to avoid wearing the abomination you’ve described. Types IIIs are already absurd. I’m trying to imagine what a waist length leather jacket over a long green camo blouse would look like.
To actually answer your question, technically no.
Additional Type III Technique Only - just don’t buy them!
Better yet, just continue to wear the flight suit! Dress for the job you want, not the job you have 😃
Howdy all. Newly winged aviator here, looking for the most recent recommendation for a place to purchase a quality leather nametag to be sewn onto the brown leather jacket. Excited to start wearing it and excited to hit the Fleet. Any and all recommendations are welcome!
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I think there's a mega thread just for this: https://www.airwarriors.com/communi...ying-leather-nomex-wep-jackets-patches.25724/
Holy fuck, the guy want's $62 for a leather name patch? I used to go by his shop in Orange Park in the early 90s. Times have changed.
Rumor is he ramps up production to fuel his booze habits and the backlog gets pretty deep when he's not working. Honestly, I was not impressed with my TG patches. The name tag leather was dry and caused a shitty looking cracked crease and my squadron patch paint was dry and cracked and had weird un-sewable material at the bottom banner "corners" of the patch.
Seconded. TG really is the best. None of the others even come close. Worth the wait and the cost by a long shot.
If TG is on a bender and the backlog is really long, Wings & Things does pretty good embossed leather work. I ordered mine from them 20 years ago and it's still holding up great. No chips, cracks, etc.
Agreed mine looks great. Wings and Things is taking ~3 months.If TG is on a bender and the backlog is really long, Wings & Things does pretty good embossed leather work. I ordered mine from them 20 years ago and it's still holding up great. No chips, cracks, etc.
I’m also a big fan of the custom leather jackets you can get from Korea and Turkey. They’re still “G-1” jackets, but are of much higher quality. Pairs well with TG patches.
I think I’ve said it before, but whatever you do, don’t be the dude who gets the shitty paraloft issued flight suit leather name tag, and get it sewn on your leather. I knew one guy who did that, and ironically he didn’t make it..
I think I’ve said it before, but whatever you do, don’t be the dude who gets the shitty paraloft issued flight suit leather name tag, and get it sewn on your leather. I knew one guy who did that, and ironically he didn’t make it..