Jerome Jaxon was once in charge of research and development at a Canadian division of the Am-Can Petroleum Company. An engineer, James McDonald Hudson, worked under Jaxon to develop a special superpowered suit. When Hudson disapproved of Jaxon’s plans for the suit, the helmet and blueprints disappearred. Am-Can held Jaxon responsible and fired him. Moreover, Am-Can blacklisted Jaxon so that he was unable to find a new job. Jaxon’s wife left him, and by the end of the year he was destitute. Jaxon attempted to hang himself but succeeded only in inflicting brain damage which, while leaving his intellect intact, left him permanently unable to walk.

When the Guardian made his first public appearance, Jaxon noticed that his battle-suit resembled Hudson’s experimental suit. After satisfying himself that Hudson and Guardian were one and the same, Jaxon approached August D’Angelo, chairman of the American conglomerate Roxxon Oil and told him what he knew about Guardian. Interested in procuring Guardian’s battle-suit by any means possible, D’Angelo appointed Jaxon as an executive vice president of Roxxon and financed his project to create Omega Flight.

Jaxon soon met Roxxon employee Delphine Courtney, actually Robot MX39147, designed to have the highest level of intelligence its creators could give it, as well as an open-ended deductive capability that its creators likened to intuition. She became Jaxon’s assistant. Acting on his behalf, she recruited former Gamma Flight members. However, she also recruited Roger Bochs, who bore no grudge against Alpha Flight or Hudson; Bochs joined Omega Flight in order to subvert Jaxon’s group from within.

Omega Flight brought about their first confrontation with Alpha Flight by kidnapping Hudson’s wife Heather. Jaxon took command of Roger Bochs’ robot, Box, through artificial psionic means, and used it to battle Guardian. Guardian caused Box to explode, creating a feedback that hit Jaxon, but Guardian died when his battle-suit exploded.

Courtney rebuilt herself into a male humanoid form and devised a duplicate of Guardian’s battle-suit. Wearing false hair and skin that disguised her as James Hudson, Courtney then convinced Heather Hudson and the rest of Alpha Flight, which Heather now led, that she was James Hudson, giving a convoluted story to explain how Hudson had managed to survive.

The rest of Omega Flight, except for Smart Alec and the apparently deceased Jaxon, then took over the West Edmonton mall, an enormous shopping center, as a trap for Alpha Flight. Courtney (as Guardian) and Omega Flight defeated and captured several Alpha Flight members. But Courtney unintentionally released dangerous mystical forces. The Omega Flight members fled, only to be confronted by Alpha Flight ally Madison Jeffries, who overcame them all.

It remains to be seen whether Omega Flight will ever strike again.