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A jacket that survived war, gangs, and runways without ever once flinching.
means A bomber is an aircraft built to drop bombs, or — by extension — the short, fitted, elastic-cuffed jacket originally worn by their crews.
from From "bomb," which arrived in English in the 1600s via French "bombe," from Italian "bomba," likely tracing back to Latin "bombus" and Greek "bombos" — words that simply imitated a deep booming sound. Add the agent suffix "-er" and you get the thing that does the booming. The jacket inherited the name secondhand: the snug, waist-cinched "flight jackets" worn by bomber crews in the World Wars kept pilots warm in unpressurized cabins, and "bomber jacket" stuck long after the planes flew home.
- origin
- Designed for open WWI cockpits with no heating
- the b
- B-3 used sheepskin to fight subzero altitudes
- nylon shift
- MA-1 switched to synthetic in the 1950s
- orange lining
- Reversible to signal downed pilots for rescue
- name swap
- In England it means a strong cannabis joint
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