March 2024

Masters of the Air: Battle Plans

Unit photography by Robert Viglasky, SMPSP. All images courtesy of Apple Almost 13,000 of the famed B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers were produced during World War II, but today, only 45 complete examples of the four-engine U.S. aircraft still exist, and only four of them are flyable. Thanks to the Playtone/Amblin production of Masters of the Air, there are now two more. The Apple+ series follows the air crews of the American 100th Bomb Group flying raids into Germany from bases in the U.K. And to help create that illusion for the screen, British production designer Chris Seagers supervised the construction of two complete replica B-17s capable of taxiing down the runways of a vintage airfield in Hertfordshire. But with the nine-part...more

Masters of the Air Crew

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