Romanian WW2 flight gear, Need opinions on a pair of gloves

You can put a maximum of 10 pictures in one post (if I'm not mistaken) and not make 13 different posts that cover 2 pages.

I have never seen flight gloves with fur also they look unused to me, also the pair I have seen had markings.

1. I have never seen the rule stating the 10 pictures limit. I have made different posts, so that the images should load faster. I am not using imageshack, but fotobucket for the same reason.

2. I have not seen flight gloves with fur also, this is why I posted so many images taken from different angles. I expect also a professional answer, not one based solely upon one example.

3. They are used indeed, but the images are not showing that. Please define the term "used" in your conception. In my book, they are used - they are crackled, the leather is unzipped from the interior on one glove, and many minor signs of usage are present.

4. Also, I presume that you know what the Latin dicton "testis unus, testis nullus means". The one pair that you saw - it proves nothing to me, since it is only one example, that can be very well another model, another type of glove.

So, in conclusion, please bring some solid arguments into the discussion, and help me shed some light upon this issue.

Cheers,

Al

PS - as for the provenance of the gloves, they came from an old woman, who kept them in some storage bin since ww2. Therefore, this could be a possible explanation to their phisical appearance.

hi alex!


interesting gloves!
i've seen a lot of pilots gloves from ww2, but nothing like these.

1. i don't think that they are from a fighter pilot becouse the cockpit of a fighter is full with small buttons so this kind of gloves would made difficult to make a rapid " blind eye" command durring an engagement.

2. i think it is more likely to be from a turret gunner, from a bomber(they had some openings i) and was also hard to aim and fight durring winter or cold wetter missions.

3. they're made in detail with place for each finger(so not for kradfahrer)



i'll do some research these days to see if i find something.

greetings
seeker

It seems they are WW1 british RFC (Royal Flying Corps) gauntlets, designed to protect pilot’s hands in an open cockpit airplane. See: http://oldnautibits.co.uk/search/search_re...h_string=flying ( Reference nr. 747 )

Thank you very much for the information.

Al

1. I have never seen the rule stating the 10 pictures limit. I have made different posts, so that the images should load faster. I am not using imageshack, but fotobucket for the same reason.

2. I have not seen flight gloves with fur also, this is why I posted so many images taken from different angles. I expect also a professional answer, not one based solely upon one example.

3. They are used indeed, but the images are not showing that. Please define the term "used" in your conception. In my book, they are used - they are crackled, the leather is unzipped from the interior on one glove, and many minor signs of usage are present.

4. Also, I presume that you know what the Latin dicton "testis unus, testis nullus means". The one pair that you saw - it proves nothing to me, since it is only one example, that can be very well another model, another type of glove.

So, in conclusion, please bring some solid arguments into the discussion, and help me shed some light upon this issue.

Cheers,

Al

PS - as for the provenance of the gloves, they came from an old woman, who kept them in some storage bin since ww2. Therefore, this could be a possible explanation to their phisical appearance.

1. If you make different posts the browser doesn’t load the faster as the number of pictures is the same (that's why I use thumbnails). Try posting 11 pictures and the eleventh one will appear as a link.

2. Any personal opinion is useless without photos or links, unless you want to believe it.

3. They don't look to me like gloves that were used for too many flights I doubt that a airplane is a clean environment without gun oil fuel etc.

4. You probably wanted an expert opinion and this is a public forum, few people have seen all the flight gloves used by the Romanian army in WWII.

Now back on topic Romania received a big amount of British American, Italian and French equipment after WWI so if you found them in Romania who knows...