The service academies have amazing football helmets. Army, Navy, and Air Force do headgear better than everyone else, and when they roll out helmets that nod to the military histories of the branches they represent, they’re at their best.
Air Force’s sweet new football helmets look like F-35 pilot headgear
The service academies are at it again.
The latest: these Air Force lids:
Those are via this video from the program:
These helmets are modeled after a military plane, the F-35.
The football helmet – released in photos on Monday – is modeled after the helmet F-35 pilots wear in flight. There will be five designs for the helmet this year. On one side, the Air Force logo will be a constant. On the other, there will be five decals representing the five F-35A operational fighter squadrons.
We don’t have a full uniform yet. Air Force is going to use a few different looks this year that are modeled around this concept, so we’ll see them when we see them.
Last year, Air Force rocked these sharktooth helmets, which looked like these planes:
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