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- Mounting aerial losses cause their commanding general to order the flight into forward action, to engage the Germans and protect the reconnaissance aircraft. Alan gets a Lewis gun fitted to his aircraft, and a new French engine.
- Gaylion gets a taste of the horrors of life in the trenches when his plane is forced down and he must wait overnight for the arrival of a replacement propeller.
- A new German monoplane is causing massive losses and the British military hierarchy do not believe their planes are being so outclassed. The reason for their success is found from an unlikely source.
- Charles devises a method of fitting a Lewis gun to their plane, and Alan makes it a reality, but in their first aerial combat they find the design still needs work, when they shoot out some struts in their own plane.
- Alan is recommended for a commission, but does not receive a lot of support from either the other officers or the NCOs, apart from Triggers, who recommended him. His conduct in shooting down observation balloons affects the result.
- Alan is still in occupied territory, and plans an escape. A German attack on Sainte Marie means all but one of their planes are destroyed, and several men are killed.
- Alan is still adjusting to being commissioned. An American arrives, to try and get support for a sale to the RFC of his parachutes.
- Charles is training new pilots in the south of England but rules forbid him teaching anything potentially dangerous. New pilots cannot even fly in slightly adverse weather conditions. Charles doesn't follow the rules, and a tragedy follows.
- On a reconnaissance mission with observer Conrad, Alan disregards Conrad's order to move closer to a German Eindecker, turns for home and avoids a confrontation. Conrad insists Alan be court-martialled for disobeying an order and cowardice.
- After the court martial, Conrad continues to fly with Alan, ordering him to be more reckless. Conrad shoots down an Eindecker but is fatally wounded. Alan's incident report is complete, but Triggers rewrites it to leave out certain details.
- May 1915, and Alan arrives in St Marie, France. Some officers resent his lower class background. Alan and his friend Charles are reunited. On his first mission a German plane machine-guns them, and his observer, Bravington, is wounded.
- The old CO, Captain Dornish, is shot down. He is replaced by Captain Triggers. Enroute to the unit, Triggers learns the horrible truth of Dornish's fate, from a wounded Infantry Officer.
- Seeing the inadequacies of the planes, Triggers encourages the pilots and NCOs to put forward ideas for improvement.
- In 1915 18-year-old Alan Farmer, a country blacksmith, joins the Royal Flying Corps, and meets Charles Gaylion, an upper-class officer who transferred in. Mistaken for an seasoned pilot, Alan is taken up in a training plane he cannot land.
- Alan and Charles are sent back to England to pick up a new plane, but on arrival they discover the plane is not ready. They stay at Charles' family home in London, and Alan learns more of the class differences between them.
- A German machine gun post is causing huge problems, and the unit is tasked with knocking it out, but attack from the air proves ineffectual.
- Alan's training advances well, but he has to learn both military and flying skills, while Charles has already completed his pilot's training. On a training flight, Alan's engine fails on take-off, and he crash-lands the plane in a field.
- Triggers has to drop a female British spy behind enemy lines and their plane suffers engine failure. They are captured, and are scheduled to be shot at dawn, as spies.