One, I know that they probably don't have (at least a lot) of period photographs, but they do have a lot of documents that were saved from likely destruction from North American's World War II era stuff (multiple P-51 variants, multiple B-25 variants, and it seems also a significant amount of P/F-82 and AT-6 technical documents and plans). These are mostly original, in-era handmade illustrations and plans.
As someone who's interested in such info, has anyone gotten an membership to their library, and is it worth it?
And two, to follow on from a bit of a discussion in a thread about P-51/F-82 books and photos, does anyone know if (especially the technical plans that they're trying to digitize) have had copies sent to Boeing for their archives? I was told by drgondog that he and his co-authors and contributors sent at least copies of a lot of their stuff (photos, technical documents, etc) were sent to Boeing after their book on the P-51B was completed. I'm wondering if Air Corps has or is considering doing the same.
And at least with both Air Corps and Boeing it does seem that such materials are in safe hands. Because, yes, trying to source stuff from Boeing is a pain (price and they don't really give or sell stuff to people unless they're planning on making a published work--same with BAe and other companies), at least Boeing are trying to preserve their (and North American's and Douglas/McDonnell/McDonnell Douglas') heritage from that period. It was pretty much only fate that kept Rockwell from throwing away or destroying those items that Air Corps has now.