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After exchanging some info and photos over in the grouping section about VF-84 -- I thought I would see who else collects modern flight helmets and start off by showing a few of mine.

 

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Thanks for sharing your helmets. Anything from the 50/60's? :thumbsup:

 

Yves, your presentations and stuffs are always very nice...

 

(For those who are interested by vintage flight helmets, you can click on some links below in my signature.)

 

Franck

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I only have one helmet in my display right now. It is a new style Foilage Green HGU-56 with Oregon Aero liner and a Prototype Gentex flex-boom mic. I have the much vaunted G Co. logo drawn on the visor cover. Gotta find a better display case for it, plywood just doesn't display well.

 

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Very nice collections. I especially like the "Pukin Dogs". I wish there were more A-6 attack helmets represented. Everyone seems to gravitate towards the fighter guys. :rolleyes:

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Very nice collections. I especially like the "Pukin Dogs". I wish there were more A-6 attack helmets represented. Everyone seems to gravitate towards the fighter guys. :rolleyes:

 

 

I had a few more attack helmets and sold them but in the first post-bottom shelf is two Marine attack squadrons and above them is a navy attack squadron. VMA-331, VMA-332, and VA-205. I think the one with the 76 on the back of it is a A-4 squadron but never been sure.

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I had a few more attack helmets and sold them but in the first post-bottom shelf is two Marine attack squadrons and above them is a navy attack squadron. VMA-331, VMA-332, and VA-205. I think the one with the 76 on the back of it is a A-4 squadron but never been sure.

 

Yes you definitely have a great collection. Thanks for posting. I see alot of NAS Oceana squadrons in your collection. I spent practically my whole career in A-6's at Oceana. Had a great time. Check your PM's.

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Nice helmets for sure i dont see a lot of them for sale are they hard to find never collected any helmets. Is the bottom one in post 2 a jolly rogers helmet? Since i was a kid i loved them guys maybe i seen them on top gun lol it was a great movie.

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Nice helmets for sure i dont see a lot of them for sale are they hard to find never collected any helmets. Is the bottom one in post 2 a jolly rogers helmet? Since i was a kid i loved them guys maybe i seen them on top gun lol it was a great movie.

 

 

Just saw your post...do you mean the yellow one with the skull and bones? Yes that is from VF-84 early 70s. You don't see as many Navy helmets for sale these days like there used to be but they are around if you keep an eye out.

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Cobra,

 

Is the IHADSS visor cut out like that custom for the HDU? or is that damage from a crash? Cant say Ive ever noticed that before on the IHADSS visor, but I really haven't looked much into that helmet.

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Mohawk,

 

The visor is specifically cut that way to fit the HDU (Helmet Display Unit) monacle over our right eye. You can kinda see it in my avatar.

 

Jon

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I have spent a lot of time cutting visors for our Apache pilots. It is a custom fit and everyone is different. It is all done by hand with a Dremel.

 

...the life of an ALSE tech is sooooo unappreciated LOL

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Well here is me wearing my HGU-56P in Iraq 07. I still have the helmet so its in my collection, lol It was since modified with sewing velcro on the chin strap to keep it from attacking me while flying, lol

 

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My helmet from my blue-suit days in the early 1980s. By the mid-80s, I came to my senses and became an AH-64 pilot. Figured I better add that before the questions about the AH-64 picture near an A-10 helmet came up!

 

The helmet is a single visor (gull wing mod) HGU-26/P with MBU-5 mask.

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My IHADSS in use, circa 1990. Not the greatest pic. Sorry for the writing all over it. I've had folks swipe my personal pics and post them as their own. I miss that helmet. Regrettably, the Army wanted it back -- one of the few items I had to turn in.

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Ya can kind of see them in the left side of the picture.

 

Merry Christmas!!

 

Jim

 

I didn't even notice the Gentex boxes until I uploaded the picture. :P

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