Gandy Goose is induced to become an Army Air Corps pilot by a hardboiled flight commander a rooster and it only takes a short time to discover that Gandy has no equilibrium or sense of direction The training progresses from desperate difficulties to ignominious disaster before the rooster pronounces Gandy ready for a solo flight which also does not end well The rooster then takes Gandy up for a flight and orders him to bail out and then kicks him out Gandy takes the rooster with him