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Wasn't that the country in "The Mouse that Roared"?

Appears to be one of the hangars they do restorations in, not the Museum's four main buildings. Still plenty bad enough, of course.

Not to mention lovers of graphs and charts

Cool, thanks!

I really do like Greg's, but to be honest, sometimes I put one on at night when I can't sleep. Works better than those rainfall vids for me. Speaking of Greg, he said in his B-32 vid that despite not having the central fire control system of the B-29, the B-32's turrets were an improvement over the B-17 and B-24. I'm hoping he follows up on that.

Popular Mechanics has been running articles about blended wing-body aircraft for about 30 years or so. The question IMHO is can this design deliver lower costs per mile than conventional tube and wing aircraft. Unducted fan engines were a big thing 30 years ago also

Not that I'm a naval expert, but thanks to Drachinifel I know that the Iowa class has their armor separate and internal from the outer hull, so portholes not feasible. Presumably they had some other means of ventilation. But yeah, seems like a lot of pre WWII ships did have portholes.

This guy flew them, as well as F-100s

The P-63 and it's pilot in better times.

To me it almost looks like it could fall off the back of the ship during hard maneuvers

Yes, that seems likely. I've seen speculation on other forums that he was in a loose formation with two other fighters and so was focused on them.

Well, way back in it its early days, the then-Confederate Air Force had some incidents where they were accused of that sort of thing, paying for those in aircraft and blood. I'd like to think those losses forced them to be more responsible and safety conscious. In this case, the P-63 pilot appeared in one video to be following a P-51 who was also not only outside the primary line of mostly bombers, but flying faster than they were. Had they been at a different altitude, probably would not have been a collision, and I'm guessing that P-51 pilot has already had some explaining to do. I'll grant that it almost looks like it could be deliberate, the way the P-63 hits the B-17 right in the middle of the fuselage behind the wing, as though he were trying to ram, but I'm not ready to go that far. On the other hand, I was unpleasantly surprised by the NTSB preliminary findings of the previous B-17 crash, the Collings Foundation's "909". I'd seen their planes and people a couple of times before, and they seemed not only very professional, but well-resourced. But there appear to have been serious maintenance deficiencies blamed on the now-deceased pilot, which I wouldn't have expected to be allowed to happen.

Appears from the videos this was a Warbird Review with multiple aircraft doing flybys in trail at show center, done at many airshows without incident. My understanding these are thoroughly briefed beforehand, as to aircraft involved, and what each is supposed to be doing in the show and when. Seems safe to say the plan was not executed, with the result that the P-63 was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and as Colin said, in an attitude which blocked his view of the other aircraft in the review.

Some good news... https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2022/04/15/condition-of-u-s-s--the-sullivans-improves-as-pumps-work-around-the-clock-at-buffalo-naval-park

The SAC Museum outside of Omaha, Nebraska has a Vulcan. It's spent some time outside, but will be taking its turn in the restoration hangar.