Sure, I'll watch it. I'll tip my hat to them for building a couple of accurate replicas of parts of B-17s like cockpits on a gimbal setup for the cockpit action shots.
Their CGI of B-17F formations in flight suck. Shit, they should have got in touch with HT. He could have done better than what they did.
In 2020s, there just weren't very damn many B-17Fs around. Period.
In 1949's 12 O'Clock high otoh, they used the real thing.
"In the opening of Twelve O’Clock High, a B-17G Flying Fortress crash-lands, representing the losses the 918th Bomb Group had been suffering. The footage shown in the film wasn’t a model being controlled by wires, nor was it archival footage from WWII. The B-17G was real, and it was purposely crashed during production. The only change made to the bomber before the stunt was the removal of its bottom turret, which was done to reduce the risk of structural damage.
Stunt pilot Paul Mantz was paid $4,500 (worth over $53,000 today) to fly and crash-land the aircraft on-film. This was, up until the 1970s, the largest sum paid to a stuntman to perform a single stunt."
So, I'll cut them some slack.
BTW, I'm sure a lot of us have read Masters of the Air by Donald Miller. If you haven't read it, Harry Crosby's "A Wing and a Prayer" is good too.