Ikarus the Flying Man

Two French spies Baron dAubigny and Clemence de Montignon blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine He flees to New York and works as a waiter When World War I breaks he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation