Flying ace after he became the first pilot to down five German aircraft. The British initially used the term "star-turns" (a show business term), while the Germans described their elite fighter pilots as "Überkanonen" (which roughly translates to "top guns"). The successes of such German ace pilots as Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke were much publicised for the benefit of civilian morale, and the "Pour le Mérite", Prussia’s highest award for gallantry, became part of the uniform of a leading German ace. In the "Luftstreitkräfte" the "Pour le Mérite" was nicknamed "Der blaue Max"/The Blue Max, after Max Immelmann, who was the
The Flying Ace is to pinpoint a missing employee. Stokes's last command is to catch a gang of railroad thieves. He performs all these threatening tasks after immediately regaining his former job as a railroad company detective. "The Flying Ace" served as an inspiration to the many blacks during the post World War I era since it had an all African-American cast, particularly due to the fact that, at this time, African Americans could not serve as pilots in the United States armed forces. The Flying Ace was a movie that was dedicated to a black audience, usually classified as a "race movie".