Former car salesman Cory Bengtzen launches a used airplane delivery business with two inaugural trans-global "ferry flights." Cory's cowboy pilots brave wild weather, take on dangerous airstrips and cover distances that these small planes were never meant to fly. He hires mechanics to rig the planes with extra fuel tanks but engine problems, fuel leaks and just bad luck threaten to put his new business on a collision course with disaster.

Cory's new business runs into bad weather when his pilots walk off the job and he's forced to take the controls. But that's just half of Cory's nightmare. He's got two new pilots island hopping a Bonanza to Brazil with a hurricane on their tail. They'll need a lot more than luck to tackle these odds.

After a rocky start in Macapa, Brazil, ferry flier entrepreneur Cory Bengtzen and copilot Kerry cross the Amazon rainforest. But engine trouble and power struggles make the last few legs the bumpiest yet. While up in Canada's Northwest Territories, veteran pilot Randy McGehee readies a UN cargo plane for a 12,500 kilometre trek to war-torn South Sudan.