Doug Masters (Jason Gedrick) is a high-school senior and an Air Force brat, the son of fighter pilot Col. Ted Masters (Tim Thomerson), a daring Cessna pilot and a hopeful AF pilot himself.  While awaiting his graduation on a base somewhere in the Southwest, he gets the word that his father has been forced to eject over a hostile Middle Eastern country (probably Libya), captured, tried, and condemned to death.  The Federal government doesn't seem to want to do anything to get him out, but Doug isn't giving up.  With the help of a band of dedicated friends, other AF kids who call themselves "the Eagles," he obtains intelligence, fuel, computer time, maps, ammo, even a fraudulent flight plan (it helps that one of his best pals, Milo Bazen (Robbie Rist), is the son of the top Intel officer on base), then ropes Reserve Col. Charles "Chappie" Sinclair (Lou Gossett) into serving as his wingman in a desperate transatlantic flight to rescue the Colonel.