Doug's father is an Air Force pilot who is shot down on a mission near the border of a radical middle eastern state and is now held hostage. Failing adequate U.S. intervention causes a desperate Doug to enlist his school chums in a wild plan to essentially sneak away with two Air Force jets and take off on a mission to rescue his father. He convinces the former Air Force Colonel Chappy into flying one plane, while Doug himself flies another (he learned how to pilot from his father). Besides Doug's inability to hit anything unless he has music playing they encounter minor problems of the state's air defenses.