All the planes' weapons fail, and Block, realizing what has happened, tells Topper that he saw what really happened with Buzz and Mailman: That Buzz tried to do everything possible to save Mailman, but ended up falling out of the plane, failing in his attempts. Block just starts to call out for the mission to be aborted when Iraqi fighters attack the squadron. In the midst of the mission, Block mentions Buzz Harley to Topper, who has a panic attack and is unable to lead. Wilson, who is also on board, instructs a crew member to sabotage the planes, putting the pilots' lives at risk. Essess, Benson reveals the mission to be an attack of an Iraqi nuclear plant and Block assigns Topper to lead the mission, much to Gregory's protest. Topper develops a strong emotional attachment to Ramada, but she is haunted by her past with Gregory. Block believes this is enough to convince the Navy to buy new fighters, but Wilson calls it a 'minor incident', saying the planes need to fail in combat. During one of the last training missions, an accident between Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson and Jim 'Wash-Out' Pfaffenbach leaves Dead Meat killed and Wash Out demoted to radar operator. Block would then report that it was the Navy's planes that were the real reason for the mission failure and that they need to be replaced with Wilson's planes. Block reveals that he brought back Topper for the reason of making Sleepy Weasel fail. Wilson, who has recently built a new 'Super Fighter' that will make the American pilots superior. Meanwhile, Topper gets into a feud with another fighter pilot, Kent Gregory, Mailman's son and a former boyfriend of Ramada, who blames Buzz Harley for his father's death and believes Topper is dangerous.īlock starts privately meeting with an airplane tycoon, Mr.

His therapist, Ramada, tries to stop Topper from flying, but she relents, and also starts to fall in love with him. Harley experiences intense psychological problems, especially when his father is mentioned.

Navy, to help on a new top secret mission: Operation Sleepy Weasel, commanded by the senile and accident-prone Admiral Benson.

Commander Block asks him to return to active duty as a pilot in the U.S. Topper Harley wakes up from a nightmare he is having about the event when Lt. Although Mailman survives, he is mistaken for a deer owing to the branches stuck to his helmet and is shot by a hunter. A pilot named Leland 'Buzz' Harley loses control of his plane and ejects, leaving his co-pilot Dominic 'Mailman' Farnham to crash. The film begins at Flemner Air Base 20 years in the past.

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