As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
Stringfellow Hawke is an expert helicopter pilot and gets to fly an ultra-advanced military helicopter, Airwolf. His employers are "The Firm", a division of the CIA, and his missions tend to be a of an intelligence-gathering nature. His burning desire, however, is to locate his brother St. John, missing in action in Vietnam.—grantss
Airwolf is the most sophisticated helicopter imaginable (flies halfway round the world, outruns jet planes). Stringfellow Hawke is its pilot, essentially blackmailing a secret US agency into finding his brother (lost in Vietnam) while he flies dangerous assignments for "The Firm."—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
A renegade pilot and his partner "steal" an advanced battle helicopter that they feel would be used unethically by its owners, a secretive U.S. intelligence agency. They agree to continue flying it on missions for the agency in exchange for the agency's help locating the pilot's missing brother.—Kenneth Chisholm [edited]