Unsaid, after the part about pilots entering the present, how old is the AB format? Perhaps together then into the present, to embrace the future.
Because right now, there is some seriously qaulified commentating wasting time on defending and indicting?
Sky King had wing levelers and ATT hold on his B18. Penny's 310 had a Strikefinder. 1950's-ish.
Traveling a long way is not a guarantee of "getting There". Tech wise.