PROTECTION, Inc. TOPTEX 3
Made by Protection, Inc. (later merged with Gentex), Division of Mine Safety Appliance Company (MSA), Toptex helmets were used mostly by test pilots from the 60s till the 80s.
This developmental outgrowth of earlier „Lombard‟ (by their designer name - Charles Lombard) helmets featured a custom fashioned, individualized fit inner liner that was shaped to the specific wearer's cranial conformation.
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The Toptex aviation helmet soon gained a reputation as the preferred protective flight helmet of professional flight test pilots and engineers. Featuring a center-track, articulated, adjustable rigid wind-blast visor, this helmet set a standard of excellence that would not be matched in US Air Force protective helmet design until the advent of the custom fitted HGU-55/P liners of the 70s.
The pictured helmet is a Toptex 3BM ( third generation, broad medium size ).​​
Another Toptex helmet - see HERE
