You know, all this big helmet talk got me thinking...
Shouldnt they be using different helmets in space as opposed to on Earth?
Kind of like today... big for space and small for sky...?
I just thought it was kind of weird that all the helmets in macross, sdfm, dyrl, macII were all relatively small until it got to macplus, mac7 where the planes started to have both sky/space capability in the sense that they can launch from the ground but was able to go into space. Then in maczero, the helmets got smaller again.
I dunno... was just thinking that maybe kawamori decided to do this after dyrl/flashback.