United States Navy Type H-4 Protective Flying Helmet; gold fiber glass shell with brown rayon and cowhide inner webbing; adjustable boom dynamic microphone attached to right side of helmet; red manufacturer's tag with adhesive on back inside nape of hard shell (see Marks for full text); green nylon inner soft helmet with three panel construction; green nylon tapes reinforcing seams; black rubber P/O H-87A/U reciever headphones with green chamois ear padding; green cow hide buckle chin strap; brown cow hide reinforcing with two snaps for oxygen mask; green nylon adjusting strap on back nape of nylon helmet; green cotton webbing straps with snaps attach inner helmet to protective helmet shell; black nylon manufacturer's tag with gold embroidered text (see inscriptions for full text) sewn on inside nape of nylon helmet; United States Naval Aviator's badge wing decal on front brow of helmet. Created by 2015 NASM Mass Digitization Production Project (Ortery system) Date Created 11/18/2015 Source National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Keywords Aviation; Equipment; Flight Gear; People; Uniforms Rights and Restrictions Not determined
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