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[Burgess H in Flight]

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

• Early Aviation said:

  Signal Corps SC NO. 28 $6000 / 1914 (@ $180,000 2023) arrived San Diego end of July 1914. Deemed obsolete 21 June 1915 underpowered.

Chinese Rep talking to CAM Co Employees W.D. Pauley on Left

from SDASM Archives

• Chris Cross said:

  It's William D. Pawley, not Pauley :)

Aviator in leather & fur flying suit, Australia, c. 1942

from State Library of New South Wales

• 10 older comments, and then…
• Wendy Dyson said:

  What a brilliant photo!

• covid convict said:

  The zipper was invented in 1892, so that's an earliest date...
  
  This chap looks like he's wearing a WW2 USAAF flying suit so my guess is he's a USAAF pilot/aircrew...from an aircraft that flew high altitudes...like a B29...
  
  I don't think the USAAF units that operated out of Northern Australia during WW2 dressed in flying gear like this...this was the gear they wore during operations over Europe and Japan, where it was a good deal colder...
  
  airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/boots-flying-type-a... - here's his boots...
  
  One possibility...if this pic was taken in Australia...this chap might be the pilot or one of the aircrew from the USAAF B29 'Waltzing Matilda' that made a brief tour of Australia in October 1945 to drum up support the 4th Victory Loan...
  
  www.awm.gov.au/collection/C351807 - brief details here...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56391948 - the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, 25th October, 1945...the names of the crew are mentioned here (see item at bottom of highlighted column)...
  
  My next guess is that the pic might have been taken in the later 1940s or early 1950s...US B29s made several visits to Australia during this period...on joint training exercises...to gather data during the Woomera atomic bomb tests, etc...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27518350 - SMH, 17th June, 1954...pic of US B29 pilots/crew at Richmond RAAF Base...but they look to be wearing more modern gear...

• geoff.barker285 said:

  yes - the date is interesting. it looks like a B3 jacket and these were replaced by the thinner B10 in 1943. Those boots look like they are for cold and high altitude but as cabin pressurisation improved in 1940s the need for this kind of gear decreased so could be early to mid 1940s?

• Hakan Kavas said:

  Great... Congrats on Explore.. 👍👏👌💯🌟

• Flickr said:

  Congrats on Explore! ⭐ December 12, 2022