#weird old america

[gremlins-hotel]

alfred rocking some different flight jackets (nerd stuff under cut)

The flight jacket, an iconic piece of any aviator's outerwear. Before they ever became symbols of fashion and the 'exalted' place that came with the occupation of pilot, the flight jacket as we know it was first made for function. Aircraft of World War I and the earliest designs were open cockpit machines, and many would remain that way in the Interbellum. All that to say this paramount paraphernalia's original purpose was to keep an aviator warm in the sky.

Keep in mind that the images above may not reflect every specimen of their type. Jackets differed in design by manufacturer, production block, and even by the military branch (Navy jackets also often have a different name) & unit ordering them. A great example is the wide range of looks for the quintessential B-3. My apologies in advance for them being all American designs. I would love to show off some of the British flight jackets, but I would rather do a little more research (and practice drawing Arthur more)!

A-1 (1927-1931) A thin leather jacket designed for lower altitudes and made with a flattering fit high on the waist, the A-1 was the kickstart to the wide variety the Army Air Corps would come to know. The A-1 had differing designs between the Navy and the infant Air Corps, and early A-1s are distinguished by having seven buttons and a knit collar, which later models did not keep. However, later models did retain the knit waistband and cuffs.

A-2 (1931-1943) The direct successor to the A-1, the A-2 quickly replaced its older brother. This is one of the more recognizable jackets from the States after becoming the standard for the Air Corps in the early 1930s. The quality of the jackets would fall due to wartime rationing, with early designs of horsehide and silk becoming goatskin and cotton, however, the general look remained. The A-2 was still primarily for open cockpit designs, lower altitudes, and warmer climes. Identifiable from the A-1 by its snap-down leather collar, zipper, and varying shapes and sizes of a hook-and-eye clasp at the collar to close it.

G-1 (1938-present) This looker would replace the A-2 in form and function during the 1940s, first becoming popular with the Army and Navy before being adopted by USAAF. Originally named the ANJ-3/AN-J-3 the jacket gained its new designation by the time the Air Corps caught on. The G-1 came with a mouton collar and a bi-swing back to allow for greater arm movement, meanwhile, it lacked the over-zipper 'wind flap' of its predecessors. A keen eye for pop culture might realize that this is the jacket from the 1986 hit Top Gun.

B-3 (1934-1943) Ah, the B-3! Commonly known simply as the "bomber jacket," the B-3 was made with a high-altitude bomber in mind, unlike previous designs. Incredibly bulky and lined with sheepskin the B-3 was made to keep crews at 25,000 feet above from freezing in their unpressurized cabins, with many such as the early B-17 Flying Fortresses possessing open waist gunner ports. The wide collar could be closed with two leather straps and the jacket did not come with the famous knit waistband or cuffs that others did. "The General" was a B-3 design made specifically for General George S. Patton, who popularized the B-3 outside of the Air Corps. (The B-3 had a slimmer cousin - the B-6 - designed as the 'quality of life' inside bombers improved, such as pressurized cabins.)

B-7 (1941-1942) Short-lived, the B-7 Parka was manufactured for pilots operating in the brutal cold of Alaska. However, not much is known of it due to its limited production. In fact, the B-7 was discontinued swiftly due to its high manufacturing cost. Either way, the B-7 is a funky one-off that is easily distinguishable from the lineup by its three-quarter length and coyote-lined hood.

B-15 (1944-1954) The infamous green flight jacket that many today typically know as the "bomber jacket". The B-15 quickly replaced its older brother, the B-10 (1943-1944). Like other designs it had many variations. Similar to the G-1, the B-15 shared the same pocket design and lack of a wind flap, yet the B-15 was cloth with a mouton collar and a knit waistband and cuffs. The shell was produced in a range of materials including nylon and cotton-rayon. It was lighter weight and far less warm than its sheepskin predecessors and spoke to the advancements in aviation technology. A quirk of its design that soon became standard was the designated pen pocket on the upper left arm.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[willyhoos]

bro has been in the timeloop for so long he has begun to view his friends deaths as obstacles instead of tragedies😭😭😭💀

[solarwreathe]

christmas with no limits

really, this art was all an excuse to show you this image. i miss when old movie promo photos were awkward as shit.

[kjellerhjornet]

somewhere colder than here

[oifaaa]

When I was younger I used to get so pissed off by high-school aus specifically bc no matter where the original story takes place the au would always be set in an American high-school and American High schools confuse the hell out of me

[faeriecap]

what the hell is this???? did marvel authorize this bullshit??

[badolmen]

I can fix him*

*bad writing, underutilized gameplay mechanics, characters with unfulfilled potential, funded by bootlickers

[johnwalkerhater]

what's cool about stucky/captain america fics is that Natasha was almost never thrown around as the Jealous Heterosexual Bad Guy that hates them. That was Sharon carters position LMAO

[bbqhooligan]

my bad broski i was not familiar with your game 🫡 yeah i have been a drake hater for years & tbh ever since pusha t's story of adidon released i was praying for his downfall but it all got pushed to the side and was so anticlimactic. because music industry keeps hiding and uplifting the freaks and the predators! i was so mad abt drake cowering and posturing like he's still the king while he got exposed (for me, this was meet the grahams before meet the grahams was a thing). but i get you, and i also heard j. cole's new song too and man... kendrick made these two go on a downward spiral. motherfuck the big 3, it's just big me indeed! so i agree i'd rather want king kenny ft. megan AND YOU KNOW THE MUSIC VIDEO WOULD BE FLAMESSS MEGAN IS SO CREATIVE AND FUN SHE WOULD MOST LIKELY BRING THE FUN PART OUT OF KENDRICK TOO. CARTOONS AND CEREAL PART 2.

OMG ANON YEAH I DIDNT EVEN THINK ABT A POSSIBLE MV THAT WOULD GO SO HARD lmao im scared to hope i didnt even consider that holy shit. but yeah with drake, like with all male celebrities theres a small part of population that holds onto the "bad info" but everyone moves on and youre left feeling crazy like GUYS I STILL REMEMBER HE DATED THAT MODEL AS SOON AS SHE TURNED 18 THAT HE MET AS A MINOR so it was historic KENDRICK LAMAR went "nah i remember too youre not crazy" jesus woah.

also i saw a yt comment that said "damn kendrick wasnt lying it really is Big Him" and ive been cackling calling him the Big Him

[bmpmp3]

thank god for indie devs making like tiny little maximum 10 megabyte freeware games on itchio keeping the art of filesize optimization alive. ASSET REUSE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thebest-medicine]

I don’t have tiktok but is there like. nsfw and kink communities on there. like is there tickletok.

[textsfromtheavengers]

[thewingedwolf]

i feel like felicia was kinda dismissive of guessing jag’s mom’s name esp bc her & cirie said he might be related to kaysar earlier which was so. but also i might just be a lil sensitive about it since they just made the kaysar comment & they also gave up on trying to guess america’s mom’s name immediately too

altho i also thought immediately giving up was kind of weird bc america said “l” and they didn’t even try to guess, i feel like they were [redacted i feel i’m being too sensitive fr about it aksjdj] it was funny watching them interact but at the same time i felt like i was watching jag experience a microaggression 😭😭

[theindefinitearticle]

I just want to write a quick love letter to my ADHD medication real quick. I finally got back on my correct ADHD medication and then had, no fucking joke, perhaps the most insane rollercoaster of a fortnight within fucking days of getting back on this prescription. If even half of the things that had happened to me in the past two weeks had happened in like, January (everyone's favourite mental breakdown month), when I was on an absurd alternate concoction invented through "idk, here's a bunch of scripts and just see what happens" pharmacist magic ("just call around. I don't know when it will be back in stock. Just keep calling places. Go up a dose. Go down a dose. Try both at once") because America says Australia isn't allowed any more of my medication 😤 no were being too greedy 😤😤😤

Went back on my correct dose, had the insanest two weeks of my life, and got through it only some problems. And with an ultimately positive view on the week and my performance in it. If this had happened in February you would have had to have me committed. I don't even know to what department but somebody would institutionalise me for something.

ADHD medication I love you 🥰

[nerdie-faerie]

Also everyone is betting against me retaining my accent and instead coming back sounding more America post camp

[selffagellation]

🧍 when was someone gonna tell me that Walton Goggins was HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES of all things