THE QATSPY® The Yankee Leather Jacket Perspective
By: Charles W. Boatright
The Yankee Perspective- How 59 Seconds Kick-Started the 20th Century Boom in Industrial Revolution
Nothing can capture the imagination better that started the 20th Century Technology and Industrial Revelation Boom more significantly than aviation. This was not where just two men who just combined wings with an engine to fly for 59 seconds on an isolated beach in North Carolina, at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. It marked the new era of technological and Industrial Revolution achievements that mankind has never witnessed before.
But the real significance of the Wright Brothers flight was that within a short period of seven years on October 11, 1910, an aircraft based on the Wright Brother’s design would fly the President of the United States. For the first time in history, a President of the United States would take flight for 3-minutes and 20 seconds over a three- mile flight at 60 miles per hour at Kinloch Field in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Naturally, the President was none other than the Rough Rider himself, President Theodore Roosevelt, who accepted Archibald Hoxsey’s offer for a flight, without hesitation. President Theodore Roosevelt embodied the Rough Rider spirit that had a direct connection to the Wright Brothers. Archibald Hoxsey was a pilot at the Wright Brothers flight school in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rough Rider, the US WINGS® Flight Jacket
The US WINGS® A-2 Rough Rider Flight Jacket that I’m wearing will soon become your tough adventurous new sport jacket. This is the perfect sport jacket for the open road, cockpit, tailgating, or attending a social event or for work, you’ll have the fashion and style needed for any occasion.
In 1927, the U.S. Military requested a flight jacket be design for their pilots. The A-1 Leather Flight Jacket was developed for aviators, followed later by the updated A-2 Leather Flight Jacket in 1931 that is still used today by the U.S. Military. US WINGS® still issue the A-2 Leather Flight Jacket today to the U.S. Military.
Just a Hollywood NOTE: US WINGS® supplied the Indy-Style or the A-2 Flight Jackets for the following movies:
“24” ■ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ■ Behind Enemy Lines, ■ The Tuskegee Airmen ■ Dogs of War ■ Space Cowboys ■ The 6th Day ■ Red Sky A.K.A Kerosene Cowboys ■ Amelia’s Journey ■ Sky Captain ■ The World of Tomorrow .
This same iconic A-2 Leather Flight Jacket was worn by U.S. pilots and paratroopers during World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen (The Red Tails) featured in the photograph above. This same A-2 Leather Flight Jacket was adopted by the WWII Veterans as motorcycle jackets. Thus, the term we developed for the A-2 Leather Flight Jacket in the Rough Riders Collection.
The Rough Rider collection of THE QATSPY® is the US WINGS® Leather Jackets that is offered with the option of a Harley-Davidson or the Indian Motorcycle Rocker Patches, shown above, and the 2nd Amendment Patch, shown below. This collection will soon include three Aviation A-2 Leather Flight Jackets, with the 10-inch Diameter Hand-painted back patch of either of the following: P-40 Warhawk, P-51 Mustang, or the B-17 Flying Fortress.
You can purchase your US WINGS® A-2 Leather Flight Jacket that is supplied to the U.S. Military from THE QATSPY® The Yankee Personal-Style Traditional Apparel Quarters Online Store. This will soon become an heirloom in your family that will be passed down from one generation to the next generation, with the same style and design of the first A-2 Leather Flight Jacket developed in 1931.
Southern Heritage Air Foundation Raffle
Southern Heritage Air Foundation ■ Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport ■ 175 Circle Airport Rd ■ Tallulah, Louisiana 71282 ■ (318) 574-2731
Starting on February 29, 2020 through the April 18, 2020, the Southern Heritage Air Foundation will be selling raffle tickets for a 2nd Amendment A-2 Cape Buffalo Flight Jacket to be raffled off on April 18, 2020. You can go to the Southern Heritage Air Foundation website and purchase Raffle E-Ticket for the drawing. The Jacket is a $470.00 value. This is a US WINGS® Flight Jacket that meets the U.S. Military Specs and is supplied to the U.S. Army and Air Force This is the 2nd Amendment Rough Rider A-2 Flight Jacket.
The 2nd Amendment Rough Rider A-2 Flight Jacket is offered up by Yankee Personal-Style Traditional Apparel Quarters. For more information, please use the link below to read more:
