The Great Horsepower Race covers this. It may have been covered in one of the YouTube videos about the book, on the web site for the book, or in a post here.
There has been a very good, detailed accounting analysis of Bomber Command. The infrastructure costs were staggering. I have the article somewhere, but digging it out is going to be a nightmare.
"Aluminium oxynitride is a transparent ceramic composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen. Aluminium oxynitride is optically transparent in the near-ultraviolet, visible, and mid-wave-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum."...
I don't think anyone had armored glass that could survive a 20mm round.
MG damage: Spitfire Mark I Windscreen
T.O. No. 01-65BC-1 "P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot's Flight Operating Manual" Section I "Description", 1. "Airplane", d. "Pilot Protection" (1) says:
ARMOR. - Front and rear armor protection...
Why does he think it might be German?
Any chance you can find faintly engraved markings?
Can you post a photo of the back of the yellowish piece? It looks as though the size of the laminated layers are different on the front and back.
Is there anything that might indicate which side is down?
That dude does terrible videos. Be sure to thumbs-down if you watch one--otherwise, the algorithm promotes the video to everyone else. That's the problem with an algorithm that just counts views.
It's a 3-bladed LeO C.30, a license-built variant of the Cierva machine. The French army had great hopes for using them for artillery observation, but was disappointed. The French navy received some for anti-submarine use shortly before the May attack.
As an artillery observation aircraft it...
Lack of all-flying tails? With the CoG and CoL so close to the elevators, they don't get much of a lever advantage. For aircraft without hydraulic boost, this would be even more if a problem.
All I know is that the nearest gas station to work has E85 and it was less than half the price of regular unleaded a few months ago. (With falling gas prices it's probably "only" 60%.) Anyhow, talked to a guy who was filling up his Flexible Fuel Vehicle Ford. His mileage on E85 was only about...
If nothing else, this was interesting for how completely transonic flight characteristics change with smal increases in Mach.
https://youtu.be/yNcJK4WrDcU?si=75Npg1UOrEHu620X