Man or Astro-man? at the Middle East Club in Cambridge MA, 15 Nov 2010

Compare & contrast:

• Chris with astronaut (well, MiG) helmet from Astro-man concert
• Chris with astronaut (well, MiG) helmet from Astro-man concert, AND LASERS

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Photos and video of Man or Astro-man? playing at the Middle East Club in Cambridge MA on 14 Nov 2010.

More info:

• Wikipedia: Man or Astro-man?
• MySpace page
• Astroman site

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A note on this helmet:

The band is from Alabama, and they've been playing shows in astronaut & pilot gear for years now. Being from Alabama, I'd always assumed that this gear may have been cast offs from the Huntsville Space & Rocket Center, or maybe Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery.

As it turns out though, this helmet looks more like Chinese or Russian design than anything American. In fact, the closest match I can find turns out to be the GSh-6, Soviet Flight Helmet, which also has the green coiled hose on the right chin, and the silver lever on the left chin. I'm not sure which variant of the helmet it is, but it seems to be in the same family, anyway:

The GSh-6A is used primarily in the MiG-25 and MiG-31 high altitude/high speed interceptors, however, the GSh-6 is the helmet of choice when test pilots ran any of the new or newly modified Soviet/Russian high-performance aircraft - MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-27, MiG-29, Su-17/20/22, Su-27, and Su-35 through their paces.

So then the question is where the heck they got a Russian fighter pilot's helmet? Who knows :-)

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Taken in: United States / Massachusetts / Cambridge / Neighborhood Four (show map)

Taken on: November 15, 2010

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