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Mon, Aug 13, 1984
"Col. Raynor Sarnac as a pilot with the 'right stuff. He's flown missions in two wars and has risen to command a reconnaissance wing at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, where he pilots his flyers and his family through the turbulent '60s." (Quoted from the description that accompanies the episode.)
Mon, Oct 1, 1984
After losing a friend to the crash of an experimental fighter aircraft, Raynor is called to Washington to testify to a congressional committee on the future of the aircraft's continued development. While Raynor wants to kill the project, complicating the issue is the plane's designer, one of Raynor's best friends, who once saved Raynor's life, and who pleads with Raynor to recommend continued R&D on the airframe. Meanwhile, Wesley gets involved with a friend helping to prepare for the Civil Rights March on Washington, and misses out on the family's Presidential invitation to visit the White House.
Mon, Oct 8, 1984
Raynor is asked to take to take Colonel Sakamoto of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) on a flight to test newly-designed engines. During a vertical climb test, a catastrophic engine failure requires them to bail out in the wilderness of the Sierra Navadas, and ther survival skills are put to an extreme test as Air Force Search and Rescue hunts for them.
Mon, Oct 22, 1984
Aeronautic Engineer Josh Farrell and the "YF-13" are back (from Episode 7), and this time it's being test-flown by another good friend of the Sarnac family, Hal Bonner. Raynor, flying a "chase" plane, has a different interpretation of the test flight than Hal does, and Josh Farrell is still bitter from Raynor's Congressional testimony to terminate the aircraft's development.