We’re at an air show and everyone is panicked because little Tommy Bolan, a mere twelve years old, jumped into the cockpit of an old plane, took off and is happily flying around the sky. He lands in a field and taxis up to them. How? “I knew how to do it like I’d done it before.” Fast forward to the present day and he’s now Capt. Bolan of Federal Airways, preparing for take off as the pilot of flight 652 to New York. The 28 people on board are relying on him to get them there but, as he begins his approach, he flashes back to Villars in 1918 with a couple of German planes on his tail, riddling him with bullets from their machine guns. The only reason that everyone survives is that Bolan’s co-pilot, Russell Smith, knocks him out and pulls up from his suicide dive just in time to land safely, if bumpily. Bolan wakes up in hospital as Lt. Stevens utterly bewildered that he’s not dead.
He comes to believe that he is the reincarnation of Lt. Peter Stevens, an American fighter pilot who was shot down over France during World War I and killed before Bolan was even born.
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