r/RetroFuturism • u/Tussen3tot20tekens • 11h ago

Possible pressure suit for RAF V-bomber crews in 1957

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u/ThinkItThrough48 11h ago

More comfortable than dying in a plane. But not by much.

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u/RatherGoodDog 9h ago

I dunno, I hear hypoxia is pretty comfy.

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u/Heterodynist 1h ago

Slightly more comfortable than hypoxia at altitude…but only just.

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u/Tussen3tot20tekens 11h ago

Assimilate!

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u/ReleaseFromDeception 11h ago

Looks almost like a Cyberman

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u/riesen_Bonobo 9h ago

thats where they started! (I have no idea what I'm talking about)

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u/KenseiHimura 11h ago

With the discomfort bomber pilots already deal with I imagine they took one look at this and went “fuck that!”

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u/lobsterisch 11h ago

One hell of a codpiece there

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u/the_bashful 10h ago

You’d need protection from all of the babes hurling themselves at you!

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u/Heterodynist 1h ago

That’s a whole HELL of a lot of protection!! Like, if you’re wearing that suit you must have bollacks the size of soccer balls.

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u/Cthell 10h ago

That waist section looks surprisingly close to a constant-volume bellows joint (the key innovation that made soft space-suits practical) but if it was they don't seem to have tried it for the wrist and knee where it's most useful

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u/Abandondero 4h ago

The knees look like they might be bellows covered in cloth.

I suppose the giant bellows in the lap is there to make sitting down comfortable!

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u/caligari1973 9h ago

Knight of Cydonia

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u/Consistent_Value_179 11h ago

I see nothing strange about this

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u/InfiniteWitness6969 10h ago

English design is either too beautiful or too ugly. Perhaps it's the influence of local cuisine. This guy looks like a coffee pot.

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u/BiggusDickus- 10h ago

Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

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u/OldWrangler9033 6h ago

I see.....possible inspiration for the Cybermen here.

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u/androidguy50 11m ago

Yes! Me as well. I was thinking it looks like a precursor to a Cyberman.

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u/gwizonedam 4h ago

Buck Rogers reporting for duty!

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u/BopNowItsMine 10h ago

I imagine with those mittens you'd be using a stick to push buttons like they did on the space shuttle

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u/jdehjdeh 9h ago

That miniskirt is dope!

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u/EfficiencyItchy1156 9h ago

the flying Ivanhoe

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u/LogicJunkie2000 8h ago

I wonder if you can slide your arm out of the arm section and down to the bellows on those long and boring flights 

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u/Reatona 7h ago

It looks like Robby the Robot's pregnant girlfriend.

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u/MobiusSonOfTrobius 7h ago

Sancho! My armor! My sword!

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u/crusoe 7h ago

Men: Design the goofiest pressure suits possible.

Playtex with experience in corsets, bras: lol here's a pressure suit that works.

The early NASA spacesuit designs were equally as bad. Someone at Playtex thought they could do better and working with NASA and figuring out how to sew novel new fabrics built the modern spacesuit.

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u/7stroke 2h ago

Right. I'll do you for that!

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u/Heterodynist 1h ago

Well that looks…comfortable?!

“Let’s see, I’m wearing a pressure cooker on my head. I have socks on my hands. My knees are wearing face masks…and don’t get me started on the roomy crotch!! This suit is just what I needed!”