WWII Soviet leather flight helmet - your opinions please

[SADolch]

Big Ned,...........This is inside (2) of my flight helmets ????????????.......the darker one is smooth and the lighter one is kind of coarse...............Dave H

[mixer]

Karakul sheepskin helmet in mass production? Then the buttons and clasps would make of gold, or at least silver. USSR - a rich country!!!
In the USSR, the dog fur was considered most suitable for flight uniforms from his existing undercoat. It was only in the early 1960s, began to be used sheep fur. And it is mainly due to economic reasons.

[SADolch]

check these photo's with the one on post #3.....................Dave H

[RKKA pilot]

Hello,

I found a photo of a ww2 Russian pilot (in the middle) wearing 3AStalina's flight helmet. I will post it below.

[Boudionovka]

" Forgot to mention...the goggles are post WW 2....as there is no vent above the lens.............Dave H "

There are post war , not because vent or no vent, because the type of rubber, white rubber = nautral rubber = war time / Grey rubber = synthetic rubber = post war.

The vent model are specific pilote, those without vents are for motorized unity, but you can find no vents model use by pilote.