Mark Sanger

Chess at 30,000 feet: how Mark Sanger edited Masters of the Air

Barry Keoghan, a white man in his early 30s, sits in the cockpit of a WWII bomber with Austin Butler, a white man in his early 30s. Sat behind them is another young white man, all three of them in WWII airman outfits

Enemy fire could come from all directions. Air sickness threatened to fill up a vomit bag at any moment. Between engineering failures, bad weather and high-altitude personnel clashes, the bar for success was often just returning to the landing strip alive. Back on the ground, bar brawls and office politics awaited.