Originally Posted by
Sniper
Incidentally, I do not know of a single airline that ever issued a leather jacket as part of a crew uniform before 1986, when a certain movie came out (if you know of an airline that allowed leather prior to 1986, tell me, as I couldn't think of one); most every airline now allows them. Why exactly do airline pilots wear leather jackets now? It seems obvious to me.
While thats a great history lesson, it doesn't really touch on what I was saying other than that
you think
you're Maverick when wearing a leather jacket. My point was that WWII pilots that made up a bulk of airline pilots after the war brought and used their leather jackets, hence starting a tradition. My family flew for Eastern, National and Pan Am btw, all of which had pilots that wore leather jackets. Just FYI, no one in my family had one.
Sorry to take the original posters thread off topic. I'll let it go back to the original question.