I’ll be flying tomorrow, and I agree, coat and gloves, but otherwise very VMC down here in the South East.

You could always share my steed if you fancy popping over to my place… I have an invite from Mr Dubtrub to bring it to Leicester in any case.

I think you’d have more chance if you organised a drive in to some car-park somewhere; particularly if you had a side-competition for “Best Thermos”, and “Nicest Sandwiches”.

I love the colourful characters that you find on this forum, but I get the impression that there isn’t a whole lot of flying going on.

I think you’ll find that it was a Gauloise he was smoking. Galoise are entirely different 😉

Nomex is one of those rather tedious fabrics which, as I’m sure you are aware, comes only in a limited number of colours – all the more restricted if you go from the ladies’ 4.5 ounce fabric up to a mansize 6.5 ounce fabric.

There would have been a time when I would have recommended a flightsuit in the Orange 6.5 ounce fabric, but since George Bush opened up the “Guantanamo Bay Home for Unlucky Tourists and Unsuccessful Freedom Fighters”, that look has become a bit passé.

In my opinion, you simply can’t beat the solution found by the more select units of the USAF. Just wear the standard sage green CWU 27/P suit (no kneeboards, please!) and wear a chequered silk scarf with it, tucked into the neckline.

Subtle, and yet elegant.

Always happy to be of service, even to the terminally lazy 😀