The years have flown away as fast as his head of hair, sadly for ex-WWI flying ace Bartholomew Bandy. By the start of World War II he's no longer a daredevil young pilot, but a balding forty something, relegated to training younger men for the terrible battle against the Luftwaffe. Despite resorting to a firmly fixed toupee, he is hurtfully dismised as too old for active service. They don't want him, bu then, mysteriously they do - and Bart is back in the cockpit of a super new Spitfire ready to inflict plenty of damage. Some of it even on the enemy...