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| title |
FULL GEAR |
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Collectors guide on US flying clothing from 1920s
thru 1970s |
| author |
Aota Mituhiro |
| price |
SOLD OUT |
| pages |
168 FULL COLLOR |
| size |
18cm x 26cm
(7 1/2inch x 8 3/8inch)
HARDCOVER |
| DTP |
Kazi Co Ltd |
| publish date |
October 26, 2005 |
| language |
Japanese
(Tables & captions are written in English.) |
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CONTENTS
1-Early Aviation Clothing
2-U.S.Army & U.S.A.F
3-U.S.Navy & U.S.M.C
4-Other Flying Clothing
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(P8-P9)
Front page of the chapter on early aviation clothing. Page on the
right shows a B-1 suit with Chinese dog fur lining dated 1918.
Every item shows as much detail as possible. |
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(P28-P29)
1st. and 2nd. patterns of AAC's B-1 jackets in the early 1930's.
The right one still has the original pocket on the left breast.
Every item is listed with its contract/order number, guessed
fiscal year, manufacturer's name, and some more information. |
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(P36-P37)
1st. and 3rd. patterns of early A-2 trousers which were originally
made for a complete outfit with the B-2 jacket. The left one has
silk pile lining and the other has wool blanket lining. |
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(P40-P41)
Early rare B-3s with 1937 and 1938 dated labels. |
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(P72-P73)
B-15 and A-11 outfits with nylon shell around 1950. The secrets
of OD color have just been revealed. |
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(P114-P115)
Extremely rare Navy jackets from the 1930's are introduced as
well as later G-1 jackets. |
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(P134-P135)
Navy's unpopular flying clothing is also listed as possible. |
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(P156-P157)
Samples of commercial flying jackets in 1930's. Button front
A-2 style jacket and famous 'Rough wear clothing' leather
jacket, etc... |
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(P158-P159)
Also shows some non-flying clothing from the 1930's with little
information included from origanal catalogues. |
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Information |
For over 25 years, I have been a researcher and
collector of vintage US flying clothing. My interests
are both of US Army (Air Force) and US Navy, especially
the items in 1920-1930's. I published a book on them
at my own cost in Japanese language with some valuable
information that I have researched at NARA, archives
in NASM and other famous museums in US.
Below is a detailed brief description of my book.
<Characteristics of my book>
- a bird's eye view of vintage flying clothing
- a focus on 'when was it made?
--although ordinal collectors are interested in
decorated
jackets, I dare not to focus on them--
- all the collections that have never talked in
other books
(except a jacket which was on "Art of the
Flight Jacket")
--a dozen of Japanese and the U.S. amateur collectors
have offered their collections with a lot of willingness
and understanding, and have been excited withmy
concepts--
- many rarely found items
--such as B-1 jackets (early 1930's) and B-1 monkey
suit
(dated 1918)--
- guessed their fiscal years from thousands of
contract (or order) numbers
- over 300 of flying clothing
- over 800 color photos
- dozens of 1920-1930's valuable, unpublished
B/W photos and about 70 scanned documents such
as specifications, etc.
- specific information of old zippers from a viewpoint
of a zipper expert
--I am also preparing the book about zippers--
The photographer was myself. I got training from a
professional photographer before starting this project.
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| Q1. |
Are you going to publish English edition? |
| A. |
Yes, I'm planning to do that via an American publisher,
however, I have no idea when it will be published.
I hope I would finish it until the end of 2007.
No, I will not publish English edition for now. (June 2006) |
| Q2. |
Would you ship your book outside Japan? |
| A. |
It depends on your country. I ship it to US, Canada
and European countries. No exception, sorry. Regarding
payment, I accept only International Money Order in
Japanese currency. Please remember that the most part
of my book is described in Japanese except for tables
and captions of the photos. |
| Q3. |
How can I buy your book? ( In Europe? ->
SEE HERE ) |
| A. |
-Email us your address in order to estimate its
shipping cost. info@fullgear.net
-Send us an international money order in amount of
the total in Japanese currency via a registered mail.
(Sorry NO credit card for now)
-After arrival of the money order, we will ship it
soon. It takes about 7-10 days to get to you. |
| Q4. |
How did you guess the fiscal year of each contract/order
number ? |
| A. |
I have been compiling thousand of contract/order
numbers that were seen on the labels of the each item
actually. I guess the coverage of my compiled data
would be over 95%. Sometimes you can find its date
on small tabs or on un-issued package of the contract
number. And published dates of specifications are
also useful to fix their range of the contract date.Ź
This is how I guess every contract numbers' fiscal
year. Anyway, remember that span of the fiscal year
of US government before 1976 was from July 1st. to
June 30th. So if a guessed fiscal year is 1940, the
contract date might be 1939 or 1940. |
| Q5. |
Do you have retail catalogs of the items? |
| A. |
No. Basically I don't sell items at present time.
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| Q6. |
May I use your data or photos on a publishing book
or on a web site? |
| A. |
You can use them when you get prior permission and
proper credit to "FULLGEAR.net". |
| Q7. |
I have some rare items. Would you buy them? |
| A. |
I don't buy items. If you can find it on Bell's
Aviation's want list, please contact them.
Bell's Aviation...http://bellsaviation.com/ |
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