{"id":3558,"date":"2009-02-24T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T02:50:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-17T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:05:05","slug":"ma-1-bomber-jac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/ma-1-bomber-jac\/","title":{"rendered":"MA-1 Bomber Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designed as a year-round flight jacket in the 1950&#8217;s, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MA-1_bomber_jacket\">MA-1<\/a> works great as an all-around durable, inexpensive jacket for autumn, spring, and winter. It is wind-proof, water-proof, well-insulated, and the slick nylon lining allows for freedom of movement inside. The jacket is reversible and the lining is typically high-visibility orange (to help locate downed pilots). Just flip it inside out, and you have a warm, high-vis jacket that&#8217;s perfect for bike riding in the dark. I have had mine for three years and use it mainly for commuting during cold weather.<\/p>\n<p>This iconic jacket, of course, received some notoriety from its role in William Gibson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0399149864\/ref=nosim\/?tag=cooltools-20\">Pattern Recognition<\/a>.  Gibson clothed the main character in a Buzz Rickson black MA-1. Funny thing is the jacket was originally issued only in green or blue, so Buzz Rickson, a meticulous creator of replicas, never offered an MA-1 in black. But eventually, they started making a special edition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historypreservation.com\/hpassociates\/detailpop.php?uniqnum=59\">&#8220;Pattern Recognition&#8221; black MA-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to spend close to $500 for a Buzz Rickson, though. In order to get a genuine MA-1, you can buy military surplus or get a new one made by Alpha,  the original supplier to the government. New Alphas run about $90. I got my perfectly-serviceable, cheap knock-off for $30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic, reversible outerwear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[682],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}