Flight Angels

Flight Angels

4.8IMDb Score
Released:1940-05-18
Genre:Drama
Duration:74 min
Director:Lewis Seiler
Actors:Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyman
Production:Warner Bros. Pictures

Overview:

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.

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