Top billed cast

1. 

   Frank Whitbeck

   Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

2. 

   Charles Middleton

   Farmer (uncredited)

3. 

   Warren McCollum

   Farmer's Son John Smith (uncredited)

4. 

   Russell Wade

   Young Man in Automobile (uncredited)

5. 

   James Conaty

   Officer at Briefing

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-07-27

With the war already firmly established in Europe (to which this film doesn’t really refer), this is one of the earliest examples I’ve seen of the American nation starting to realise that it, too, might be facing a threat and so it had better start preparing. The purpose of this rather dry feature is to attract flyers. A young farmer is watching the planes overhead with his dad (Charles Middleton at his less merciless!) when he decides that he has the wits to pass the exams and take to the skies. The training regime is set out before us - a combination of theory, exams, air hours and prett...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• u.s. navy
• aviation
• aviator
• us military
• military training
• aircraft carrier
• pilot training
• navy aviation
• naval aviation
• military aviation
• flight training