The actual pilot for William Boyd's plane in this film was pioneer woman aviator Pancho Barnes (portrayed in The Right Stuff by Kim Stanley).
This is listed as a silent film but the version on Youtube has sound and the actors speaking.
The Flying Fool is a 1929 a film produced and distributed by Pathé Exchange, It was released as both a silent film and sound film.
Aviation film historian James Farmer in Celluloid Wings: The Impact of Movies on Aviation (1984) wrote that The Flying Fool is an example of a film that benefited from "... excellent aerial sequences".
This film's earliest documented telecast took place in New York City Sunday 30 April 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11).
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