Lights can flicker.
Radios can short out in a storm.
But hundreds of people will come to watch an air show, to be awed and amazed by the wing-walkers, the stunt fliers, and the precision formations. That's what it's like at the Muddy Springs Airport. Moss hangs out there, too, hoping his mechanical skills will be useful enough to earn him the money to survive. They both look forward to a future with planes, and in the air. But they don't foresee the part they will have to play on the ground one night when the field lights fail, the storm is rising, and Beatty's father is flying the plane that's circling, circling, and almost out of fuel . . . .