He is then taken prisoner by mad airplane designer Howard Huge, who has used the island to construct a massive craft that he's dubbed the Titanium Turkey. Baloo is unable to turn back due to a storm, and crash-lands on an island in the midst of the trapezoid. Rebecca tells Kit the bad news, but the misunderstanding is soon cleared up, and Kit and Rebecca try to reach Baloo, who is flying with a broken gyrocompass. The next day, Baloo takes off in the Sea Duck, and Kit comes to confront Rebecca over an advertisement she's placed for a new pilot in Flyboy Magazine.
Baloo then takes Kit out to throw horseshoes without confessing to his supposed imminent death. Becky is initially reluctant, given its reputation for lost planes and pilots, but eventually gives in before promptly checking if a lost plane is covered by her insurance company.
After some awkwardness, Rebecca tells Baloo the news, and Baloo decides to do the one thing he's always dreamed of doing: flying into the Bearmuda Trapezoid. Baloo reports that he's got a clean bill of health, apart from a few pending test results.ĭoctor Ohmeyer calls Rebecca and reports that the component-or "the patient" as he calls it-can't be saved Becky mistakes his call as being from Baloo's doctor and believes that Baloo is terminal. He takes it to Doctor Ohmeyer in hopes of getting it repaired, at the same time Baloo is at a doctor's appointment. Meanwhile, Kit, playing at flying the Sea Duck in a dogfight, accidentally breaks a component. When Baloo finds out, he decides to fly to the Bearmuda Trapezoid (a reference to the Bermuda Triangle), from which no pilot has ever returned.Īs Baloo is heading out on errands for Rebecca, he finds himself on the receiving end of her concerns over his health, resulting from a recent news story about a pilot who crashed after getting a case of the hiccups. Rebecca misinterprets a phone call as news that Baloo is dying.