Flight suit
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A flight suit is a full-body garment, worn while flying aircraft such as military airplanes, gliders and helicopters. Such a suit is generally made to keep the wearer warm, as well as being practical,
Typical modern flight suit
A flight suit worn in 1925
A British WWII crewman in full flightsuit (with aerial camera)
East German National People's Army flight suit, 1962–1978
Pressure suit
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A pressure suit is a protective suit worn by high-altitude pilots who may fly at altitudes where the air pressure is too low for an unprotected person to survive, even when breathing pure oxygen at po
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…suits and an oxygen helmet during launch/reentry. Apollo crews wore white 2-piece beta cloth uniforms during non-essential activities and the full A7L pressure suit during launch, trans-lunar injection, lunar ascent/descent, and extravehicular activity. Mercury and Gemini crews wore their space suits for the duration…
A U-2 pilot suit
An indirect-compression pressure suit without the exterior ballistic covering, showing the many complex fabric folds, internal fold support rings, and flexible stacked cable hinge assemblies of constant-volume flexible joints.
Showing the functional components of a direct-compression capstan anti-G pressure suit: A - inflation hose connection to external air supply, B - flexible elastic tube contained inside an inelastic fabric tunnel along the length of a limb, C - alternating fabric bands to compress suit when capstan inflates, D - laced folds for customizing the fit of the fabric suit to tightly match the wearer's anatomy.
Italian aviator Mario Pezzi in his high-altitude pressure suit, circa 1937