1/32 Seatbelts RAF ZB type

HGW - 1/32 Sutton Harness 'ZB' Type pre-cut (laser) Seatbelts. The blue harness will be the 'Z type' which was fitted, from the early 1950s, to just about everything from the Chipmunk to the Hunter and is still in production today. The harness was made up of a number of components lap straps, shoulder straps, Qrb (quick release box) and different suffix letters (from A to L) were assigned depending on the particular make up required. For example the Zf harness used in the Hawker Hunter had a Qrb with cable release for connection to the the Btru on the ejection seat and separate shoulder harnesses which individually mated with points on the parachute container of the bang seat. Other shoulder strap variations included those which which were connected to a common plate or D-ring, such as used in the de Havilland Chipmunk, and others, such as that used on the BAC/EE Canberra, had an additional horizontal webbing strap connecting the two shoulder straps into a H configuration. (for Airfix kits)