Los Angeles, June 4, 2001

     Flight Suits has delivered red FSL-27/P flight suits to the Stone Temple Pilots, a popular rock band, for use in an upcoming video.

Stone Temple Pilots Blast Off For New Video June 01, 2001 LOS ANGELES

— Stone Temple Pilots are vying to be the first band in space.

They donned red astronaut suits on Thursday for their "Days of the Week" video, in which they play door-to-door salesmen who escape their monotonous lives by blasting into space and rocking out on an unidentified planet.

"Who looks better in a spacesuit — me or Ben Affleck?" singer Scott Weiland joked during a break, referring to the actor's astronaut role in the 1998 film "Armageddon."

The "Days of the Week" clip, directed by Kevin Kerslake — who also helmed STP's "Interstate Love Song" and "Vasoline" videos — opens with Weiland's character leaving his suburban home in what could be Anywhereville, U.S.A., though it was actually shot in a nondescript neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

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Washington D.C., May 25, 2001

     In a ceremony at the White House, the USAF Thunderbirds presented President Bush with an official Thunderbirds leather A-2 jacket.

     The President invited the Thunderbirds to participate in a White House in honor of Memorial Day.  During a ceremony in the Oval Office, the Thunderbird commanding officer presented the President with an official Thunderbird jacket made from dark brown goatskin with a handmade leather Thunderbirds patch on the left chest.

   The jacket was one of the Civil A-2 jackets that the Air Force demonstration team pilots wear as their official jacket. It was made by Flight Suits, an El Cajon, California manufacturer of uniforms, flight suits, leather jackets, and flying helmets.  The company also makes the Thunderbirds team uniforms, officers flight suits, and their famous Thunderbird helmets.

     The A-2 jacket worn by the Thunderbirds is the same design as the Air Force issue A-2 jackets with added welt handwarmer pockets and inside wallet pocket.  The leather patch on the jacket's left chest was made by hand from navy blue, red, and white goatskin.

     Flight Suits is America's largest maker of flight suits, leather jackets, and flying helmets.  The company supplies U.S. and foreign military, police, emergency medical companies, and aircraft manufacturers with unifoms.  The Civil A-2 with handmade leather patch is available to the general public.