High-top leather boots, full-length Nomex flight suit, gloves, helmet, and oxygen mask. Now close that bubble plexiglass canopy while on the concrete parking area. In August in Laredo, Texas. Outside air 110 degrees. In-cockpit air - nobody wants to know. (No air conditioning in the T-37 jet while on the ground.) Not uncommon to lose eight to ten pounds per flight in water loss. We went home near heat exhaustion and very, very "ripe."
