This short was released just a few months before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The wind sock that flies above Popeye's airport is an actual sock with a hole in the toe. Wind socks are traditionally used at airports to indicate the strength and direction of the prevailing winds. They are made of gossamer fabrics, not hosiery.
The sign reads that airplanes are the safest thing...on earth. But airplanes fly in the sky. The early shorts were full of sly humor like this.
Pappy's journey takes him to New York City, the South Seas and the North Pole.
From the days of the first flying aces, pilots have always had a glamorous, handsome mystique about them. The recruiting poster here continued that notion, and it still goes on into 2023.