For my parachute jump I need to convert my helmet to include the Paratrooper A Frame chinstraps. Anyone know the best/cheapest place to get them from? Had a look on SoF but really begrudge paying a tenner for 2 very small pieces of canvas WITHOUT the rivets to hold them in place. Oh and the leather chin cup, that was £15 but I don't mind paying that if absolutely necessary.
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Surely better to jump with something thats *safe* and not whats cheap?
I think £25 quid would be the least of my worries if i was throwing myself out of a plane?
Maybe one of the other airborne re-enactors can loan you an airborne pattern helmet for the jump?
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You are jumping in UK wearing wartime kit? Where?
I thought you HAD to wear BPA approved safety gear......
If you're doing this a load of other folks will be mighty interested to know where..... please....
are you doing this on a round or square canopy?
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I've asked myself Paul but Spiers wants it kept quiet, i was amzed they were letting him do a static in wwii kit myself.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
M1s are a bugger to convert into M1Cs.
Better off buying a proper liner with para webbing in.
RIGHT! haha I will divulge the company who is allowing me to do so (be it as a one off occurance! Because it's for charity.) once I've done the jump. I don't especially want the company getting hindered by half a million WW2 reenactors with only me to turn to as an explanation. Surely you can understand that Gadge mate, I'm not trying to be hard work.
I'm doing it with a modern chute and no I've confirmed dually with both the airfield and the company that I am able to wear my Airborne jumpsuit.
Headshot, from what I've seen it isn't that hard to fit the A Frames they just rivet inside the liner. All you need is a drill, shouldn't take 10 minutes. But yes on reflection maybe £25 isn't that bad. Wouldn't want to borrow a helmet just in case it got damaged, they're bloody expensive M1C's! More than I can afford on students money anyway!
And I'm still accepting pledges 
Jumps paid for booking it tomorrow!
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR