remember when helmets looked cool?

[helolumpy]

I agree.

Maybe Bell and Kaman got them from the same place way back when... for comparison, can anyone say if the H-3 and H-60 connectors are the same? Lumpy? Kow?

IIRC the H-3 connector was different than the H-60. When I went through HS-1I think I remember that the IPs needed to borrow a helmet when they flew the other aircraft.

As for the Army, when I flew a UH-60A for DLQs, my helmet worked fine in the Army helo.

Best piece of flight gear I had was an ICS cord with a Walkman/iPod jack spliced into it. The AT who did the work wired into my boom mic line, so the whole crew could listen. If I keyed the radio, then the music would transmit over the radio. I would transmit to another helo in PG sometimes. Had to make sure I was on the right freq though. Last thing I needed was to transmit over tower and get busted with it...

 

[TheBubba]

Here's mine done up in VAQ-133 colors. Yeah, it's a little dirty...

 

[Pugs]

Here's mine done up in VAQ-133 colors. .

The Fighting Cocktail forks. Nice.

 

[TheBubba]

The Fighting Cocktail forks. Nice.

You have to be careful fighting with a cocktail fork. You could really put someone's eye out with one... or your own.

 

[Moc1Sig]

vagina-like imprint on my face

How could you not be proud of this?

 

[xj220]

You have to be careful fighting with a cocktail fork. You could really put someone's eye out with one... or your own.

There's ways around that...

 

[GroundPounder]

Stupid question here, if the Navy wants you to have a helmet that is reflective why do they not source helmets that are made to be reflective without using the tape? Is it a money thing, or does the tape outperform any thing that could be integrated into the helmet and clear coated over?

 

[SynixMan]

Pretty sure all the services use the same Gentex helmets, and we just mandate the use of reflective tape for high vis in water survival situations. Tape is cheap and effective. I'm sure if we tried to change it, we'd get something that's twice the price and the reflective coating wears off in three years.

 

[lowflier03]

I'm still a fan of the Alpha Eagle helmets. I wish we would change over to those. (at least for helos, as its near impossible to actually get the "newly authorized" for us helmet.)

 

[phrogpilot73]

I can't speak to your helmet covers (other than I think they look sharp), but the OA kits are perfectly authorized INCONUS. I'm guessing someone in your QA or 130/13A (or whatever you call it) is getting overly ambitious with preps.

Don't know how I missed this one... It wasn't someone in QA or Flight E getting overly ambitious. It was the inspector from wing, and he made flight E go through every helmet and remove every hush kit. Whatever instruction it was in - he gave copies to Flight E to show the pissed off pilots and aircrew. Something about not providing enough side impact protection was what it said (and I don't remember the instruction). I had the Hushkit/SoftSeal combo, and it's gone now...

 

[Gatordev]

Don't know how I missed this one... It wasn't someone in QA or Flight E getting overly ambitious. It was the inspector from wing, and he made flight E go through every helmet and remove every hush kit. Whatever instruction it was in - he gave copies to Flight E to show the pissed off pilots and aircrew. Something about not providing enough side impact protection was what it said (and I don't remember the instruction). I had the Hushkit/SoftSeal combo, and it's gone now...

Still gay. I know you're not arguing that. I did an AMI last year and they had no problems with soft-seal kits. If I was still a MO, I'd be interested in seeing the instruction, just to see if it was a Wing interpretation or actually black and white.

 

[Pags]

Still gay. I know you're not arguing that. I did an AMI last year and they had no problems with soft-seal kits. If I was still a MO, I'd be interested in seeing the instruction, just to see if it was a Wing interpretation or actually black and white.

My understanding was that soft seals were OK but hush-kits were a no-no, but I've never actually read the instruction. I'd be more pissed about them taking my stuff since I open purchased my oregon aero stuff.

 

[lowflier03]

It's not that the hush kits are a no-no, its that they are not specifically authorized, so most inspectors and many PR's just assume they aren't authorized. They are specifically in the jet pubs but never made it into the ones for helos. Word was that it had to do with side impact protection, but I'll keep my opinion to myself on that one.

 

[MasterBates]

The RAG gave my Gucci helmet with all the nice shit to some Hinge NFO that was going West Coast. (So I was not able to track him down, kill him and feed him to my dog). And gave me a POS that a SNFO attrite turned in.

(this was in 2009.. Still bitter. Assholes)

 

[JD81]

The RAG gave my Gucci helmet with all the nice shit to some Hinge NFO that was going West Coast. (So I was not able to track him down, kill him and feed him to my dog). And gave me a POS that a SNFO attrite turned in.

(this was in 2009.. Still bitter. Assholes)

How the fuck did that happen? They straight up took your helmet and gave it to someone else?