Air Hawks 1935 Barry Eldon is the owner of an airline company that is competing with a rival company for a lucrative air mail contract with the government While the other company is bigger and more profitable than Barrys line, the rival owner has hired a scientist that has perfected a ray machine that will cause airplanes that its ray is directed at to lose their engine power and crash Thed government and the public are losing faith in Eldons line before he, aided by Renee Dupont, can find out what is causing his airplanes to crash