Female fighter navigator Zalie Munro-Rustean leads a bombing mission over Queensland in the awesome high-speed, low-level bomber, the F-111. Two other pilots tell of their dramatic flight in a stricken F-111 which lost a wheel on take-off. Ejection is ruled out and the crew must find a way to get themselves back to the ground alive. At fighter pilot school the rookies are learning how to drop bombs. One student suffers a crushing blow to his dream to be a combat pilot and is ‘scrubbed’ from the course. The other five graduate and for the first time can be called fighter pilots.