David Muir Fashions Randolph Engineering Shades Worn by US Fighter Pilots

If it is adequate for our fighter pilots, it is adequate for David Muir’s Made in America Christmas.

Randolph Engineering, based in 1973, is family-owned and operated in Randolph, Massachusetts — they usually’ve been making sun shades for U.S. fighter pilots since 1978.

“World Information Tonight” anchor and managing editor Muir traveled to Manhattan Grand Optical to strive on the American-made shades worn by these pilots, who attain speeds of 1,500 miles per hour.

And it isn’t simply fighter pilots sporting the shades — it is Robert Redford in “Spy Recreation,” Jon Hamm in “Mad Males” and Tom Cruise in “Oblivion.”

Dedicated to manufacturing within the U.S., every body is crafted from corrosion-resistant steel alloys, together with Monel and chrome steel. It takes 200 particular person steps to construct every pair of frames by hand of their Massachusetts manufacturing facility.

The corporate was first profiled within the annual “World Information Tonight” sequence in September 2014. Since then, it is grown to 80 workers and its product is offered everywhere in the nation.

Earlier than beginning the enterprise, it began with an thought from a person hoping to make the American dream a actuality.

Jan Waszkiewicz was a grasp machinist dwelling in Poland. He fought in World Conflict II as a navigator flying bombers for the British Air Power.

With solely $50 and a few kitchen utensils, Waszkiewicz, his spouse and son Peter immigrated to the U.S. and planted roots within the Bay State.

Eager to flex his mechanical thoughts’s muscle tissue, Waszkiewicz labored on making frames in his basement. Quick ahead to 1973, and Randolph Engineering was born, making instruments and machines for the optical manufacturing business.