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“To keep their ears warm, goofball. As anyone acquainted with aviation or basic physics knows, the pilot’s helmet has never been intended to provide protection against a crash. If the plane encounters the landscape too abruptly you’re sausage no matter what you’re wearing. The leather or cloth head covering worn by WW2 aviators was a holdover from open cockpit days, when you needed protection against the wind and rain.”
zonarius over 16 years ago
Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
pdino over 16 years ago
As Cecil at straightdope.com explains:
“To keep their ears warm, goofball. As anyone acquainted with aviation or basic physics knows, the pilot’s helmet has never been intended to provide protection against a crash. If the plane encounters the landscape too abruptly you’re sausage no matter what you’re wearing. The leather or cloth head covering worn by WW2 aviators was a holdover from open cockpit days, when you needed protection against the wind and rain.”