When I first got the helmet I tried it on and it didn't fit, when I found the size tag I was amazed it was an extra large as my head is average sized. I just tried it on again before I wrote this and I could get it on, but the ear patches didn't line up with my ears and the chinstrap didn't fit. It was also super tight. I'm guessing it shrank as there's no way an extra large from back then wouldn't fit me even though sizing was smaller back then. I tried lightly pulling at those shearling sections and their tightly sewed in. I even went around the outside a little and found nothing. I'm still surpirsed that someone would go through the effort to remove the earcups then sew it back together. Even if it was demilitarize to be used in a civilian plane I'd think having radios in a flight helmet would be necessary regardless of the aircraft.
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