Friday 2010-10-08 Dev. update and Discussion

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by zapatista

interesting picture

it looks indeed like a small pair of sunglasses attached to the goggles, which can be flipped up and out of the way when not needed. i suspect it is a personal pilots "mod" to better be able to look for the "hun in the sun", but i have never noticed it before in other historical photo's

Standard RAF C type helmet with MkVII googles:



Same rig with polarizing shield down:




The Mk IV goggles had similar flip down polarized lenses ( Mk IVb seen here on a type B helmet) ....




here is a D type with MkIIIa goggles note the MkIII and earlier did NOT have a flip up polarized shield:



This is a German LW LKpN101 III from the early 1940's (the N meant netting):



This LKpW 101 is rather interestingly combined for display with a steel helmet (M42 ?? ) :




There is an entire website devoted to Flying Helmets including RAF, LW, VVS and US ones:

http://www.flightgear.ch/index.htm



Well worth a look through.