The film begins with shots of various aircraft from the mid-1930s and then moves on to footage shot from the air using a camera mounted on a chest harness. There are intertitles throughout.
The first section begins with a fast cut sequence of Avro 504Ns flying in formation at an airshow. This is followed by a De-Havilland 'Fox Moth' and 'Lynx Avros' taxiing and taking off. Lieutenant Owen Cathcart-Jones then takes the Arundel family up in a General Aircraft Ltd ST12 Monospar and we see aerial shots of Southampton docks. This is followed by shots of an RAF Vickers Virginia bomber in flight and then two experimental aircraft: a Handley-Page general purpose and torpedo aircraft and an Armstrong-Whitworth bomber-transport landplane (AW 23) taxiing.
Next is a 'Cierva Rota Autogiro' (helicopter) and aeroplanes at Croydon Airport (c1937): an Airspeed Envoy and then aircraft from different airlines including Lufthansa (complete with Swastika) Royal Dutch, Air France and Imperial Airways (the large four engined Short Scylla). After this there are shots of flying boats including the Shorts Sarafand, Shorts Knuckleduster and Supermarine Stranraer. This is followed by a sequence from an air display with aeroplanes flying in formation and then a focus on parachutes. There is an air display by the Royal Air Force No. 3 (fighter) Squadron using smoke trails.
In the second section of the film of Herbert Arundel is shown using his camera on the ground while another man puts on a helmet, goggles and a camera chest harness. We see him getting into an aeroplane. The sequence which follows consists of shots filmed from inside the plane and from the ground. The plane flies over Longsdon and Deep Hay Reservoir. Included is a point of view and ground to air shot as the plane is put into a spiral dive The final sequence shows the Avro 504N flying in the evening. The Avro 604 Cadet also features.
Produced and Filmed by H.J. Arundel
Lieutenant Owen Cathcart-Jones acted as co-pilot to Ken Waller when they came third in the McRobertson England to Australia Centenary race in a specially built D.H. Comet. By flying straight back to England they established a record for the round trip of thriteen days.