 Although aircraft were seen in the film, "Men of the Sky" was more of a spy drama.In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames (Jack Whiting) and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert (Irene Delroy).Madeleine leaves her American fiancé to join her father (John St. Polis), another French spy, at an estate in Germany.