« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Nice photos of German flying helmets & goggles  (Read 1202 times)

Offline Jamo

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1115
  • Wellington, NZ
    • My Smugmug album
Nice photos of German flying helmets & goggles
« on: July 26, 2013, 05:42:56 PM »
Saw these while browsing the web:



Leather body with comb, bead and front screen as well as ears and neck protection with chin strap. Lining bell stamped inside: horizontal oval stamp. "Herfeld & Settberg / leather goods - leather manufacturing / Eberfeld", "59" (head size) stamped in the neck guard: "1918" (in the rectangle) / "FLG BEKL / Doberitz"





Goggles for pilots, eye glasses with nickel-iron version, base made ​​of black fabric. White fabric ribbons.





http://www.militaria-seidelsohn.de/objekte/kopfbedeckungen/schutzhelm-der-fliegertruppe.html
Logged
Happy Modelling
James Fahey

Check out my massive photo collection here: https://jamesfahey.smugmug.com/

Offline Rob Hart

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 696
Re: Nice photos of German flying helmets & goggles
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2013, 10:24:46 PM »
About 30 years ago, I saw a guy riding a moped in Switzerland wearing those same goggles. He looked to be quite elderly so they may have been original issue. Thanks for posting the excellent photos.
Logged

Offline Zabu

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 681
Re: Nice photos of German flying helmets & goggles
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2013, 08:49:58 AM »
E.T. phone home!

cof...cof! Sorry!
Logged
Pages: [1]
« previous next »