The leader, George Delatour (Bud Osborne), is in love with schoolteacher Helen Leland (Elsie Tarron), whom Sky-High saves from the smuggler's unwelcome attentions, knocking him unconscious in a fight.

After Wilson became a flying instructor and a short period as manager of the Mercury Aviation Company, founded by one of his students, Cecil B. DeMille, Wilson became more and more skilled in performing stunts, including wing-walking, and left the company to become a professional stunt pilot, specializing in Hollywood aviation films.

[2] Production started on Sky High Saunders in 1927 at the newly-established Wilson Aero Service at Glendale Airport, California.

Wilson had joined with his brother, Roy, another pilot, to create a fixed-base operation that not only worked on Hollywood films but also offered charter and passenger flights.

[3] Wilson worked together with stuntmen like Frank Clarke and Wally Timm and also for film companies, including Universal Pictures.