Skip and Stephen Spencer are brothers, scions of a pilots' dynasty. They race propellor-driven airplanes around pylons at speeds of four hundred miles per hour, often as low as fifty feet above the ground. Their relationship, already saturated with lifelong competitiveness, is twisted further when their father tells them that he has designed a radical new plane, the UR-1, and that whichever of them wins the Tahoe Cup at the Reno Air Nationals will fly the plane next season.
Sabotage is the least of their sins.
The brother versus brother conflict is as common as mankind's many other cares, which adds the balance of pathos. Just the right mix of eccentric and incidental characters adds the real life credibility and counterpoint. Positive lessons of loyalty and fraternal love largely reinforcing assertion of the positive side of thought. There is the whole element of the buddy picture as well as the triumph of the individual over a corporate bimbocracy that is made to seem most sinister. Features a title song.