Scorchy and his band of aviators have been hired to defend the government of Huaca. Scorchy captures the rebel leader Amara and his beautiful daughter, Tanta, who is a cabaret dancer and spy. Scorchy saves the German, Himmelstoss, who was flying for the rebels, and he joins up with Scorchy. Scorchy wants to buy an expensive plane and Himmelstoss crashes performing a movie stunt. Scorchy visits his old girlfriend, Betty, and finds that she is going to marry an Eastern twit. Rufus Krug, a shady timber baron, hires Scorchy to fly him to Birch Bay, where he is trying to steal timberland.

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