Barry Eldon runs an air service trying to get a government mail contract (what an original idea for an aviation film) who is having his planes crack up for some unknown reason. Victor Arnold, hiding behind the appearance of a respectable businessman, is the man behind the attacks who uses the services of Professor Schulter, who has created a destruction ray which is being used to bring the planes down. Facing ruin, Eldon plans to take his new speed plane on a round-the-world flight to show the country that he will risk flying his plane, but beforehand he plans to try to expose Arnold as well as find out who he is taking orders for, and this information may come sooner than he thinks when Eldon and Arnold are up in a plane targeted by Schulter's machine. Basically this B film used every cliché from every aviation movie made through that point and for a few years after so there is nothing special w/ the general plot, however the film actually uses a couple of nice plot devices of having a femme fatale whose ultimate purpose is unknown to us. The most fascinating part of the film is the appearance by famed aviator Wiley Post, only a few months before his fatal airplane crash. Enjoyable film, Rating, 6.
