In 1915 18-year-old Alan Farmer, a country blacksmith, joins the Royal Flying Corps, and meets Charles Gaylion, an up...

Alan's training advances well, but he has to learn both military and flying skills, while Charles has already complet...

May 1915, and Alan arrives in St Marie, France. Some officers resent his lower class background. Alan and his friend ...

The old CO, Captain Dornish, is shot down. He is replaced by Captain Triggers. Enroute to the unit, Triggers learns t...

Seeing the inadequacies of the planes, Triggers encourages the pilots and NCOs to put forward ideas for improvement.

Gaylion gets a taste of the horrors of life in the trenches when his plane is forced down and he must wait overnight ...

Alan and Charles are sent back to England to pick up a new plane, but on arrival they discover the plane is not ready...

Charles devises a method of fitting a Lewis gun to their plane, and Alan makes it a reality, but in their first aeria...

Alan helps Charles to capture a German plane and its crew. Entertaining the captured officers does not go to plan. Th...

A new German monoplane is causing massive losses and the British military hierarchy do not believe their planes are b...

On a reconnaissance mission with observer Conrad, Alan disregards Conrad's order to move closer to a German Eindecker...

After the court martial, Conrad continues to fly with Alan, ordering him to be more reckless. Conrad shoots down an E...