Luftwaffe flying hat.

[Guerilla]

Dear friends, could you please tell me what kind of model is that and about hat's originality.

Thanks!

[Guerilla]

2nd pic

[Guerilla]

3rd one.

[Guerilla]

And the last one. Hat was found in Estonia.

[Guerilla]

No one knows?

[juvatwad]

It's not a Luftwaffe flight helmet. It looks like either an Eastern European modification of a Luft cap or an Eastern European cap based loosely on the Luft Lkp-W101.

[Andreas Nilsson]

It´s as juvatwad said, a modified LKpW101 with all the electronics removed. Most likely poswar done.

Regards
Andreas

[C. Kleijn]

I am not specialized in LW flying gear, but it certainly looks similar to this FK33:

http://www.germanmilitaria.com/Luftw...s/L014159.html

With all the best,

Cees

[frank savage]

Hi there!

It´s as juvatwad said, a modified LKpW101 with all the electronics removed. Most likely poswar done.

I agree with Andreas and Juvatwad. It was an LkpW101 helmet that have loos its avionic in some place of the time. Is difficult to say if was made before 1945 or not. That one that I have had in my hands, carried the hardware of the modification as the pre-'45 product. The press buttons are mostly Prym as the WWII manifacture...
That's true that there was a regular non-avionic version, standardized in the same time of the 'electronicated' ones, but the helmet could be also used during the war... Who knows?

IMHO, Frank Savage