The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Royal Air Force Type B brown leather flying helmet. The helmet is brown on the outside and has a cream coloured chamois liner. It has almost vertically aligned brass zippers in the earpieces. There is small hole in front of the zippers in both earpieces, which accomodates the intercom cord to the earphone when it is fitted. Size 3, 7 1/8-7 3/8 inches.
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Battle damaged natural leather covered padded earphone originally fitted to a Royal Air Force Type B flying helmet. The earphone is divided vertically in half by an unfastened open brass zipper. The l
Beige cotton 'Aertex' Type 'E' lightweight internally wired flying helmet. The helmet has a grey elastic chin strap and black rubber cups protecting the external radio receivers. The receivers are ma
British issue brown leather Type 'C' model 22C/878 internally wired flying helmet. The helmet has a blue webbing chin strap with a press stud fastener, and black rubber cups to protect the external ra
Australian pattern brown leather flying helmet with a soft beige chamois inner lining and brass zippered, leather headphone cups stitched to either side. There is a thin adjustable strap and buckle ac
Brown leather flying helmet lined with chamois leather. The helmet is incomplete with missing earpieces. This flying helmet is associated with a Sergeant Richard W Drummond, RAF, a wireless operato
Collarless black cotton flying suit liner with brass zipper running from the neck to the crutch. Two brass zippers run down the outside of each leg from the thigh to the ankle. The liner is padded wit
Brown leather flying helmet with buckle chinstrap and small buckled loop on the rear to retain goggles. Inside the helmet, there are insulated circular leather earpads to reduce noise, and the brow se
