[J P Stein]

I walked around a B-17 at my leisure one day. It was in a hanger parked under the horizontal stab of a 747.....with lots of clearance.

Around & around I wandered while considering the thing. I concluded that the men that flew them in combat were men of the highest sort. About the only thing to even slow down a rifle caliber slug would be a warm body. *Maybe* if I were still young and immortal I'd have joined them, but I doubt it.