2 Mystery headgear seeking identification?

[rob love]

Asked and done.

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by rob love

Asked and done.

I think that's a tropical aircrew helmet. The rubber earcups take individual earpieces and the snap fasteners on either side of the face are for an oxygen mask.

Aertex or equivalent fabric to allow airflow/evaporative cooling.

Standard pilot goggles or a 'bone dome' with visor to complete the outfit?

Chris.

[gcrossley]

The mesh helmet is the RCAF version of the RAF Type E flying helmet. The snaps on the cheeks are to fit the oxygen mask. The black padded piece must be for something else.

[David Dunlop]

Hi Derk.

Take a closeup look at the 1945 Winter Helmet again in Roger’s article.

To me, the profile of the upper rear outline matches that of the set of pads you have posted pictures of above.

It strikes me, you may have two thirds of one of these helmets. First is the cloth liner that fits snug to the head, holds the headset, and most importantly, breathes to prevent sweat from running down ones head and freezing.

Next the padding clips onto the liner, and finally, a leather, outer cover would pull down over the first two items and clip in place with the remaining snaps at the lower from of the liner. The leather outer cover comes down low enough over the neck area to prevent a chill and would probably overlap the tanker suit with its collar up. It would also come down over the headset cables to prevent them snagging on anything inside the tank. The leather cover would also form a dead air gap over the liner and pads, helping to add insulation by creating a pocket of warm air.

David

[derk derin]

Thanks to Gord Crossley for properly identifying the mystery. It is in fact an E Type Canadian flying helmet. Found an image of one on the internet once I knew what to look for!
Great, now I need an airplane to go with the helmet.
Rob, thanks for posting the “decent” photo of me wearing the helmet, I have everyone laughing at the other one of me!

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

So it's exchanging the Ford Ambulance for a Spitfire now is it?

[derk derin]

That’s how this hobby works. Your happy with one vehicle then a person finds a $10.00 helmet, the next thing you know your looking for an aircraft!
Don’t believe me? Ask Rob!
Derk

[David Dunlop]

So the second helmet is probably RCAF as well then?

You need to take up scuba diving now, Derk.

David

[rob love]

Originally Posted by derk derin

That’s how this hobby works. Your happy with one vehicle then a person finds a $10.00 helmet, the next thing you know your looking for an aircraft!
Don’t believe me? Ask Rob!
Derk

Ah, how history repeats itself. And how one is never cured of the OCD...it just goes into remission just to surface again.


A quote from a post of Derk's a few years ago: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...4&postcount=32

Quote from Rob Love: Careful Derk.....it is little things like this wrench set that will cause an obsessive compulsive guy like you to go acquire an airplane.



Response form Derk:

The old Derk would have gone out to find an aircraft and bring it home to go with the wrench but I am cured now. My focus on life right now is to rebuild a new kitchen for the wife!
Derk

For the complete saga, go to this thread for a blast from the past: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ighlight=cured


Derk: I actually saw an ad on one of the online sites for an RCAF aircraft hulk a few days ago that was on someones farmsite. I was going to post it for you, but then I would feel guilty (for about 3 seconds). This would be like the old days when we propelled each other to new levels of insanity. I was the married one, so would get the divorce....you were the single guy so would just keep merrily trudging along.

[rob love]

Here you go Derk....not far from me. You can grab one of those 19 sets from my shelf while you are out here. You know, one of those radios that you "don't need anymore". (Quote from about 5 years ago but now apparently rescinded).

I am going to guess it is the remnants of a mosquito, but only because of the wooden construction inside. I remember one of my cadet officers telling us about how the moths would eat the glue that held them together. That was back in the days when a lot of the cadet officers were ex-RCAF.

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[rob love]

Originally Posted by derk derin

Rob, thanks for posting the “decent” photo of me wearing the helmet, I have everyone laughing at the other one of me!

You are not saying they are laughing at this photo? The Cretins. Well I guess you know who your friends are.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

You are not saying they are laughing at this photo? The Cretins. Well I guess you know who your friends are.

I won't laugh until I know for sure...absolutely sure...those are part of the goggles and not his real eyebrows.

[derk derin]

Those are part of the goggles Bruce, my eyebrows are blonde so nobody can see my eyebrows!
Now you’ve done it Rob, my Uncle Ken trained in Anson’s and now you have me interested in recovering that damn wreck and bringing it home. But how the hell am I going to get it into the basement? Would be a great place to sit in the cockpit in the morning and have my cup of coffee ( wearing the flying helmet of course!)
And now the wheels of my brain are spinning!
Derk

[rob love]

Having known you for this many years Derk, it is hard to know if you are kidding or not.

Get the windows back into the cockpit, and attach it to the house near the deck. Tell the wife it is a green house.

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by derk derin

But how the hell am I going to get it into the basement?

Dig down and put a second level of basement under the house? It all depends on being high enough above the water table and flood plain that the added "below waterline" space doesn't float you away in the spring floods.