Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
As everyone knows, I’m obsessed with spacesuits, and this year I decided to build a replica of the very first pressure suit, which was made for famed aviator Wiley Post in 1935.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
This costume build, which is live on Tested.com, was my first time working with Worbla.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
It is handy to have a mannequin of yourself when making yourself a costume.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
The suit required much sewing. Much, much, much sewing.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
By the time I finished this costume, I was ready for a break from sewing. It took SO MANY HOURS.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
I did my Adam Incognito at Comic-Con on Friday this year. We weren’t sure how quickly I’d be found, but it wasn’t too long in the end.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
I love this photo. Norm is SO GOOD.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
The floor seemed slightly less crowded this year, but it may have been because we hit the floor a bit earlier than usual. I think it only took me 15 minutes to get dressed in this suit!
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
I was looking at this T-800 so closely, I bumped my helmet against the glass. The person next to me turned and asked, “Adam?” My fascination was a dead giveaway.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
No-Face! This No-Face made his costume based on mine, and when I asked him about it, he guessed it was me asking. He did an amazing job.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
I got stopped quite a bit, but no one knew this was Wiley Post’s pressure suit. It’s a pretty obscure reference.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Side note: This year, they closed off the street in front of the convention center. BEST. IDEA. EVER.
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
Photo Gallery: Adam Incognito 2018: The First Spacesuit
See you next year.
Does anyone know if the forward tilt of the helmet is designed to facilitate viewing controls from a seated position or is the height of the helmet just exaggerating Adam’s posture to look unnatural? I didn’t notice it as much in the construction video as I do seeing Adam strolling around here.
Various accounts about the suit helmet state that the porthole was offset to the wearers right on account of the fact that Post had lost his vision in his left eye after an accident on a drilling rig, but I’ve never been able to confirm or deny whether or not it was actually built that way. Did Adam build his with the porthole offset or not?
Also, Is he planning on adding on the pad on the top of the helmet? Supposedly, it was there to protect the helmet from hitting the ceiling of the cockpit in the Vega. It’s prominently visible in photos of the suit
Freaking awesome.
I think you’re seeing an exaggeration of Adam’s natural posture, combined with the need to look at the ground so he doesn’t trip. Even walking with straight posture, you naturally scan “down your nose” at the ground as you walk, but obviously you can’t do that whilst looking through a porthole, so you would need to tilt your head forward.
With that said, most real pressure suits for piloting aircraft and spacecraft are built around a “sit” position. Once pressurized, the suit tends to balloon to its natural patterned shape; and in a suit designed for sitting in a seat, it’s beneficial if the pattern is a “sit” rather than a “stand” so you’re not constantly fighting the pressurized suit. For this reason, when you see people walking in real flight pressure suits (including Wiley Post), they’re usually hunched over.
Early pressure suit or Robot Monster?!
Very interesting. Thank you for enlightening me.