[1] All over North America, skilled pilots, many of them veterans of the aerial combat of World War I, plied their trade on the barnstorming circuit of the 1920s in small towns where impromptu air shows were staged.

The troupe of barnstorming pilots includes "Wild Bill" Adams, Eddie Smith and their manager, Alec "Ma" Dugan.

A remorseful Speed quits flying and heads to Los Angeles on foot, finding work as a mechanic at the Beck Aircraft Company.

Speed then asks Ruth out on a date for the dance that night, while Alec has to come to Willie's rescue when the young daredevil parachutes from the boardinghouse roof.

Principal photography for Sky Bride began February 1932 at the Metropolitan Airport and Chatsworth, Los Angeles studios in the San Fernando Valley of California.