Directed by Jules White, "Dizzy Pilots" is a very good Three Stooges short starring Curly, Larry, and Moe. The boys, known as the Wrong Brothers, claim that they can invent an airplane that will revolutionize flying. They receive a letter from the draft board stating that they have thirty days to finish their plane ("The Buzzard") and get it in the air, lest they shall be drafted into the army. As expected, the Stooges bungle the whole operation, their test flight fails, and they get inducted. (99.9% of the closing army drill sequence is stock footage from the 1940 Stooge short "Boobs in Arms.")
Here are, in my opinion, the most memorable scenes from "Dizzy Pilots." Moe's inflated rubber suit gag is probably one of the oddest occurrences in a Three Stooges comedy. In attempting to start the propeller, Moe ends up clinging to one of the propeller blades as it spins. (This gag would be reused much later on in the 1962 Stooge feature film "The Three Stooges in Orbit," again with Moe as the victim.) Among all of the Stooges' hilarious army drill antics, perhaps the best gag is the skip-stepping. While taking "The Buzzard" up in the air for its test flight, Moe tells Curly to throw out the clutch, but he instead throws out the gearshift lever!
"Dizzy Pilots" is very entertaining; not the best Stooge film ever made, but still a winner. As the title suggests, the boys simply cannot pilot an aircraft, even if their structural design of the plane appears convincing.