Showing posts with label Aviator Cap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aviator Cap. Show all posts

Friday 1 July 2016

Biggles Gets a Hat

The Flying Cap, Aviator Hat, or Bomber Hat is simple a leather hat, fur or felt lined with ear flaps and chin strap to keep it on in the wind, designed to protect and keep your head and ears warm when flying planes with open cockpits back in early days of flight.

These hats are very similar to trapper or hunting hat, the main difference being the ear flaps are longer and don't have ties to fasten them up.

Usually worn with goggles to protect your eyes, I have read most Boeing 747 and Airbus A320 pilots don't wear them anymore which is a shame.

James Bigglesworth is a fictional pilot from around the time of the first world war in books by W.E Johns, he did fly in stories in later wars and between wars, but his book covers regularly showed him wearing a flying cap, for that reasons you may also find this cap or hat called a Biggles Hat


Below is the story in pictures of Richard Bigglesworths James older more hansom brother


Chapter 1 : Biggles Dons His Flying Cap




Chapter 2 : Biggles Wags A Finger



Chapter 3 : Biggle Leans Backwards



Chapter 4 : Biggles Ready To Learn To Fly




Chapter 5 : Biggles Shows The Back Of His Cap