Power Dive (film)

Power Dive is a 1941 American film directed by James P. Hogan. The film stars Richard Arlen, Jean Parker and Helen Mack.

Ace test pilot Bradley Farrell Richard Arlen, flying for McMasters Aviation Corp., breaks his leg when an overweight prototype crashes. Brads younger brother Douglas Don Castle, a recent graduate in aeronautical engineering thinks Dougs flying is too dangerous, and is hired as a design engineer at McMasters. Carol Blake Jean Parker wants to interest Brad in her fathers design for an aircraft made of plastic. Doug pretends to be Brad because he is attracted to her but Brad meets Carol and takes her out flying. She introduces him to her blind father, Professor Blake Thomas W. Ross, resulting in Brad becoming immersed in the professors new designs.Brads friend, Johnny Coles Louis Jean Heydt, loses his life test flying his own, similar design, that breaks apart in the air, leaving behind his wife and child. Despite his friends death, Brad convinces the company to build Blakes geodetic aircraft design, with his brother put in charge of the project. ........

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