Nogle passagerer er på et fly på vej til London, pludselig forsvinder flere sporløst, mens flyet er i luften. Det viser sig efterhånden, at forsvindingerne skyldes, at Jesus har rykket de kristne bort fra verden og hjem til sig. Jesu genkomst og dommedag er nær.

Den unge pilot Clifford får fingrene i en tophemmelig jetpack, og med hans mekanikers hjælp må han stoppe nazister og redde pigen han elsker.

Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis.

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the Skylab program back to its very conception reveals the cornerstone of human space exploration.