At the end of my shift on Monday the 15th, an older gentleman knocked on the door of the museums library. He asked if he could make a donation. I said yes and led him downstairs to meet with Mr. Olmsted. On our short walk there the man informed me that he is a retired Air Force pilot and had flown the B-52G bomber. We have one such aircraft on display out in front of the main building. And it he said that he wished to donate a complete set of flight manuals for said B-52.
His donation was accepted and the following two days I got to spend sifting through them. And when he said complete he meant it. Several binders full of material regarding payloads and top speeds. Maximum speeds and altitudes. And even a ruler and protractor as well for marking out information on a map.
All very cool stuff which I spent longer than I should have idly looking through all of it. But I still did museum work. All of it was photographed, at least the outsides of the binders, there was no need for me to take pictures of the pages. Tops, bottoms, sides. Even the official government leather case that the material came in was properly photographed just as I had done with the POW materials. Following the pictures I proceeded to catalogue the case and the items in it just as I had done with the POW materials.
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