 Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber (Dennis Morgan) is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves (Ralph Bellamy) when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell (Virginia Bruce) and Nan Hudson (Jane Wyman), 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 (Wayne Morris) designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.