Very cool. Yeah, I’m kinda the same. My dad was a computer tech, back before there was such a thing as a personal computer. And my “Why?” questions usually got a response along the lines of, “I think the basic idea is along the lines of _________… but don’t take my word for it, I could be wrong. Go find out for yourself, and then you can tell ME why.”
One of my dad’s favorite sayings, he attributed to Albert Einstein: “The circumference of your knowledge is the horizon of your ignorance.”
Here’s one of the two YC-14s which were built…
...on the grounds of the Pima Air & Space Museum.