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Masters Of The Air review: This is Band Of Brothers with wings... and you'll feel lucky to have survived this immense spectacle - I give it FIVE STARS! writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Don't watch this on your phone. Come to that, your TV screen isn't going to be big enough either.

Major John 'Bucky' Egan (Callum Turner) is loudly, wildly reckless – apt to start a fight in an Arctic bar with a narwhal tusk for a sword, or take a bet with all the locals in an English pub that he will stand with an apple on his head for their darts champion to skewer like William Tell. Produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also made wartime epic Band Of Brothers more than 20 years ago, every episode places intense emphasis on its technical brilliance. As scores of airmen cram into a barn-like briefing room, their intelligence officer unloads facts by the ton: 'Along the Frisian Islands from Northern Eye to Lange Hoog, you can expect concentrated flak from identified batteries consisting of 88mm and 105mm guns guided by Wurzburg radar, on a straight nine-mile run to the target.'

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