Keep 'Em Flying (1941)

Blackie Benson: No, you don't want to drink. Remember, every time you go into a barroom, the Devil goes in with you.
Heathcliff: If he does, he buys his own drink.

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The songs "I Won't Forget the Dawn", "What Kind of Love Is This" and "You Don't Know What Love Is" were written for the picture by Don Raye and Gene de Paul but not used.
Maj. Robert Lee Scott was more than just the "technical advisor" for this film. As the base commander at Cal Aero, the training facility where "Keep 'Em Flying" was filmed, he would not permit a civilian to perform the scene where a trainer is taxied fast through the four hangars, which were built end-to-end. In his book, 'Day I Owned the Sky', Scott (author of 'God Is My Co-Pilot') revealed that he performed the stunt himself.
This was originally planned for production after Ride 'Em Cowboy. The huge success of Abbott and Costello's previous service comedies, Buck Privates and In the Navy, caused Universal to produce this first. The War Department also announced a recruitment campaign called "Keep 'Em Flying Week" which Universal could use as a patriotic tie-in.
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