Jacket, Rocket Belt

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/282be0c1b3913359c6184c324a279e13

Title

Jacket, Rocket Belt

Creator

Broadway Knitting Mills

Date

ca. 1964-1970

Description

Manufactured by Broadway Knitting Mills, this jacket was worn by William P. "Bill" Suitor when he served as a Rocket Belt pilot for Bell Aerosystems from March 1964 to June 1970. He made many flights, including flights on the Bell No. 2 Rocket Belt in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. However, the jacket was not worn during the flights but only when Suitor first met the audience, prior to his flights.
Suitor donated this item to the Museum in 2004.

Subject

Aeronautics
Broadway Knitting Mills

Source

Smithsonian Institution

Relation

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NASM-A20060074000cp20

References

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=nasm_A20060074000&repo=DPLA

Subject

Aeronautics
Broadway Knitting Mills

Citation

Broadway Knitting Mills, “Jacket, Rocket Belt,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed September 20, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/26830.

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