Movies and TvShows featuring "airplane-mechanic" theme.
Set during the Great Depression, the movie follows a group of daredevil pilots who perform acrobatic flight stunts and compete in air races. The story revolves around their personal relationships and the love triangle that develops between them.
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
During World War II, Batman battles the villainous Dr. Daka, a Japanese spy mastermind, who plans to use a death ray to destroy Gotham City.
Only Angels Have Wings is a movie set in South America where a group of pilots face constant danger while transporting goods. The plot focuses on their camaraderie and the challenges they face. The story also involves romance, as one of the pilots falls in love with a showgirl. The pilots must navigate through treacherous situations, including airplane accidents and the threat of nitroglycerin explosions. The movie explores themes of redemption and loyalty.
Crime Wave is a crime drama film noir about an ex-convict who tries to lead an honest life but gets caught up in a series of dangerous situations involving armed robbery, false accusations, and a gang of robbers.
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.
Hop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory, where he is working on a new and powerful energy machine. However, a mysterious villain named The Chief Pilot is determined to have the new energy machine for his own purposes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor.
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
The Lost Squadron follows a group of World War I fighter pilots who, after the war ends, struggle to find work in Hollywood. They eventually get the chance to work on a film set, but tragedy strikes when one of the pilots dies in an airplane crash. The group seeks revenge and embarks on a personal vendetta against the film's producer, who they believe is responsible for the crash.
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company.
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.