Steve is serving his required two weeks of Air Force Reserve duty by filling in for the vacationing test pilot school commander, Col. Joe Gordon, at Edwards Air Force Base. Dr. Winslow is hired to use an electronics jamming system to destroying the jet being flown by Major Aram Sakari, a student pilot in the school. Sakari is the Prince of Kutan and Winslow has been hired to make his death look like an accident. Because Col. Gordon changes the order of the test flights, Winslow mistakenly fells a jet piloted by David Levy, a pilot in the Israeli Air Force.