SHORT VERSION with SPOILERS: In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies his trade. To be near her, he quits his job and joins the state police air service. Unfortunately, he becomes mixed up in an interdepartmental rivalry between road-bound and airborne cops. Later it is the aerial cops that capture a ring of notorious jewel thieves. This causes his wife to respect him and his job and they are happily reunited.
LONGER VERSION with SPOILERS: Nick Conlan (Kent Taylor), a daredevil pilot, applies for a job in the State Air Police Force. Noted for his disregard of discipline, Nick is warned by Major Smith, the head of the field, that any infraction of the rules will be met with instant dismissal. After he is accepted as a member of the force, Nick visits the cafe hangout of the Sky Police, where he encounters Barbara Whitney (Rochelle Hudson), his estranged wife and a former stewardess now working as a waitress, who gives Nick the cold shoulder. Major Smith and Captain Higgins of the State Motor Police are stymied over a series of daring holdups that have been perpetrated in their sector. A band of clever crooks seem to have advance information on the movement of large payrolls, bank transfers and jewelry shipments. Attempts to arrest the gang have met with failure because they seem to vanish into the ground after each raid. The secret of their success lies in having access to two locations: the cafe where Barbara works is owned by Jerry Petri, who has installed microphones and tape recorders to record the conversation of the pilots, which he then sends by carrier pigeon to Dr. Amos Pettingill, the owner of a health spa and pigeon farm and the brains behind the operation. Posing as invalids, the robbers live on Pettingill's health farm, where they secretly fly after each holdup. Nick becomes suspicious of the doctor when, while disobeying orders, he has an engine problem and lands at the health farm, where he sees several cans of high-test gas. When he tries to inform the major, however, Nick is fired for disobedience and takes a job flying planes for millionaire sportsman Jim Wilson. Meanwhile, Barbara stumbles upon the secret recording room at the cafe and is taken prisoner by Petri. Nick, looking for Barbara at the cafe, discovers the pigeons and unravels the secret of the robberies. The major sends his crack pilot, Bill Lambert, in pursuit of the doctor's planes, and Nick follows in one of his employer's crafts. When Lambert is shot down, Nick calls headquarters and forces the crooks's plane down with a series of brilliant maneuvers. With the gang arrested, Nick is reinstated into the Sky Police, and Barbara reconciles with him.
LONGER VERSION with SPOILERS: Nick Conlan (Kent Taylor), a daredevil pilot, applies for a job in the State Air Police Force. Noted for his disregard of discipline, Nick is warned by Major Smith, the head of the field, that any infraction of the rules will be met with instant dismissal. After he is accepted as a member of the force, Nick visits the cafe hangout of the Sky Police, where he encounters Barbara Whitney (Rochelle Hudson), his estranged wife and a former stewardess now working as a waitress, who gives Nick the cold shoulder. Major Smith and Captain Higgins of the State Motor Police are stymied over a series of daring holdups that have been perpetrated in their sector. A band of clever crooks seem to have advance information on the movement of large payrolls, bank transfers and jewelry shipments. Attempts to arrest the gang have met with failure because they seem to vanish into the ground after each raid. The secret of their success lies in having access to two locations: the cafe where Barbara works is owned by Jerry Petri, who has installed microphones and tape recorders to record the conversation of the pilots, which he then sends by carrier pigeon to Dr. Amos Pettingill, the owner of a health spa and pigeon farm and the brains behind the operation. Posing as invalids, the robbers live on Pettingill's health farm, where they secretly fly after each holdup. Nick becomes suspicious of the doctor when, while disobeying orders, he has an engine problem and lands at the health farm, where he sees several cans of high-test gas. When he tries to inform the major, however, Nick is fired for disobedience and takes a job flying planes for millionaire sportsman Jim Wilson. Meanwhile, Barbara stumbles upon the secret recording room at the cafe and is taken prisoner by Petri. Nick, looking for Barbara at the cafe, discovers the pigeons and unravels the secret of the robberies. The major sends his crack pilot, Bill Lambert, in pursuit of the doctor's planes, and Nick follows in one of his employer's crafts. When Lambert is shot down, Nick calls headquarters and forces the crooks's plane down with a series of brilliant maneuvers. With the gang arrested, Nick is reinstated into the Sky Police, and Barbara reconciles with him.
