With the popularity of films such as "King Kong Chuan" to resist US aggression and aid Korea, many military enthusiasts have noticed the strange helmets of US pilots.
That's right, that's the H-Series flying helmet I offered.
In World War II, pilots still wore cloth hats or leather hats, and with the birth of jet fighters in the late Period of World War II, the speed of flight became faster and faster, and pilots needed a harder helmet with better protection.
So in 1948, General Textiles (now renamed GENTEX) built the H-1 helmet, the first U.S. Navy standard fighter hard flying helmet
H-1 helmet, helmet body curved
The H-1 helmet contains headphones and a boom-mounted microphone M-6A/UR, using an A-13A or A-14 oxygen mask. Early versions of the H-1 did not have chin straps, and later versions were modified.
In 50 years, H1 was upgraded and transformed into H-2.
(H-2, helmet body with six raised ridges, play a role in strengthening protection)
The main difference between H-2 and H-1 is that the helmet body has changed from a smooth circle to a melon-shaped shape, and the several raised melon-lined lines are designed to strengthen the helmet.
At that time, the hard helmets equipped by the U.S. Air Force were P series, with dropable sunglasses, and Navy pilots thought this design was great, so many Navy pilots themselves modified the sunglasses on the P series to their H series helmets.
H-2 with P series lenses
During the Korean War, the Navy began to update the H-3 helmet again.
The H-3 with the inner hat, the helmet in the movie "Lonely Bridge"
The biggest difference between the H-3 and the H-2 is that it no longer has built-in headphones, but has an internal cloth cap, and the headphones are integrated on the cloth cap. The outer helmet only serves as a protector.
The public H-3 outer helmet and the inner helmet are completely separated, which makes it inconvenient for the pilot to carry and keep it every day, so many pilots add 6 additional belts to the inner hat and connect the outer helmet with a four-in-one buckle.
The H-3 is the helmet worn by the protagonist in the movie "Lonely Bridge" filmed during the Korean War.
American movie "Lonely Bridge"
At the end of the Korean War, the H-4 helmet was renewed
Gold paint is the original paint of H-4
The biggest difference in the appearance of the H-4 over the H-3 is in the snap position of the goggle strap.
To match the H-series goggles, a large number of WWII M-1944 and B-8 goggles have been updated with new leather bands with four-in-one buckles for pressing directly on the helmet.
The buckle of the fig. 6 goggles is under the helmet braid belt,
The H-3's goggle snaps are on a braided belt
The H-3's goggles buckle in the middle of the helmet braid
In the mid-1950s, the H series was updated to the last H-5.
The biggest differences between H-5 and H3 and H4 are:
1 changed back to a smooth circle;
2 Removed the cloth hat again and put the communication headset on the helmet again
Back to the H-1-like design Ha, maybe this is called the leaf fall back to the root!
Group photo of the author's part of the H series helmet