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This remarkable true story is based on the book The Story of Douglas Bader by Paul Brickhill. For Douglas Bader, life is a challenge. And to each challenge he responds with the determination to succeed. Above all else he excels as a flyer. Within weeks of his arrival at the Royal Air Force College, Cadet-pilot Bader has earned an accolade. Forced into giving a display Bader's plane crashes and he is rushed to hospital, where doctors expect him to die. But the Bader determination remains. He lives but loses both his legs, incredibly finding the determination to go on living ... and flying. During convalescence, the challenge grows. Bader is determined to live normally. At Roehampton Hospital, Bader is fitted with his new legs and with ferocious tenacity he learns to walk again. And he will fly again. For to Bader, flying and living are inseparable. But disappointment comes when Bader is grounded because regulations do not provide for a man without legs. War changes that, regulations are