FS-Cast Boeing B-17 Twelve O'Clock High 2024-05-12

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FS-Cast Boeing B-17 Twelve O'Clock High - Livery from the movie "Twelve O'Clock High"

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This is my FS-Cast Boeing B-17 repaint from the 1946 film, Twelve O'Clock High. Starring Gregory Peck. This aircraft is shown making a belly landing in the beginning of the movie.

Paul Mantz, Hollywood's leading stunt pilot, was paid the then-unprecedented sum of $4,500 to crash-land a B-17 bomber for one early scene in the film. Frank Tallman, Mantz' partner in Tallmantz Aviation, wrote in his autobiography that, while many B-17s had been landed by one...

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