Why did japanese kamakasie pilots wear helmets when flying.?

Question

Why did japanese kamakasie pilots wear helmets when flying.?

Answer 1

because at the height they fly its very cold and windy and need protection for there head as they need to concentrate on navigation and flying there plane. they were not crash helmets though just leather caps with a fitting to have an earpiece for communication in them.

Answer 2

So that when their helmets were found they could be

identified by their faces still in the helmet.

Answer 3

it was a recommendation from the risk assessment they had to carry out ahead of their missions

Answer 4

Becasuse they were sick of hearing this question..

Answer 5

Why do people keep posting this "question"?  It isn't funny.  It wasn't funny the last forty times it was posted.  It was barely funny ten years ago when we all received the same email.

These aren't funny either: "Why don't they build the whole plane out of the same material they make "black boxes" (which are actually orange) out of?" OR "If a plane crashes on the border of x*x and YYY, where do they bury the survivors?"

Answer 6

to keep them safe till they reached whateever they were going to destroy

Answer 7

I thought they just wore a scarf

http://www.tonto.com.br/kamikaze/kamikaz...

Answer 8

They didn't. They wore  scarves, which were donned as part of the ritual.

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2636250.j...

They did have a fighter escort whose job it was to shoot them down if they changed their minds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze

Answer 9

Idiot:  WWII pilots didn't wear crash helmets.

Answer 10

To hold there brains in when they crashed......

Answer 11

safety reasons? even air force pilots now wear helmets during flight

Answer 12

sick of seeing this question over and over.

Answer 13

Because of the cold!And wireless transmissiom!

Answer 14

health and safety!

Answer 15

In case they failed to die.................? Brain damage?

Answer 16

it was used as a weapon as well..

when plane blows up & subsequently pilot gets decapitated, his helmet  becomes secondary missle.  decapitated head by itself is too weak.  decapitated head with helmet becomes secondary lethal weapon.  nothing gets wasted to kamakazes

Answer 17

to keep their little Japanese ears warm.

Answer 18

Radio coms

Answer 19

that is a good question !

Answer 20

I seem to see this question on here a lot.  Did you research the older answers?