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74 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N UA RY / F E B R UA RY 2 0 1 8 HOLLAND SEA AND AIR The Dutch part of the filming was done on an open water zone made available for the shoot. Production workshops were in the harbour of Urk, where there were, among the various craft, three working original Spitfires and the Yak, a Russian camera plane. There were two sets to attend to in Holland, apart from ships and planes, and they were the upside-down hull and the Waterlander Spitfire, that was fired off a barge into the water and reused for the sinking plane, both in Holland and in the studio in LA. Again, the shoot was struggling in the face of extreme weather in Holland, with set-tearing elements. The Waterlander Spitfire had to be rebuilt and repainted two times for the same scene. The first time it was tested in the Dutch waters, it lasted five minutes, and had to be seriously reinforced. The sunken ship—or upside-down hull—was a steel frame skinned with sheet metal and mounted on a frame in 18-foot deep water, it lasted just enough time to be filmed. A great crane barge called the Ram was there to protect the set piece in the face of open water storms that hit. A B C D E