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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 4860866, member: 7511"] Just watched the 1st episode of Masters of the Air. and yes, I’m hooked. The first episode spends a lot of time on the technical elements of flying a B-17 combat mission including: mission briefing, pre-flight check list, takeoff & landing, etc. The episode also deals with granular issues like landing in a strong crosswind, landing without landing gear, air sickness and so on. The 100th does fly their first mission to attack the German U-Boat pens at Bremen and (spoiler alert) they get shot up badly, and even worse, the clouds are so thick over the target area that they are forced to scrub the mission and drop their bombs in the channel. [/QUOTE]