Test Pilot (film)

New York and Los Angeles

Jim loses his job at Drake, when he clashes with the owner Lionel Barrymore, and takes a job with another outfit, flying a very experimental aircraft. Ann soon finds out how dangerous her husbands occupation is, but she promises Gunner that she will stick to her man. Jim wins the race, but Benson, the man Drake sends in Jims place, dies, leaving a wife and three children behind.Jim tries to reform his ways and begins by taking a job testing aircraft, even conducting dangerous flights as he wants to give Ann a real home. Gunner remains true to his friend. NOne day, Gunner accompanies Jim on a test flight of a new bomber an early Boeing B17 Flying Fortress prototype. Upon reaching 30,000 feet, something goes wrong the bomber goes into a spin and sandbags substituting for the weight of bombs break loose, pinning Gunner. Unwilling to bail out without his buddy, Jim manages to crash land, and pulls a badly injured Gunner out of the wreckage right before it burst into flames but it is too late for Gunner. When Jim realizes the toll his job has taken on his wife, he gives it up. ........

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