High Flight

[comiso90]

Please somebody share a sentiment that is more compelling or beautiful then that penned by John Gillespie Magee, Jr...

Great Aviation Quotes: High Flight by John Magee

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

[pbfoot]

He did his elementary flight trainhing here at 9 EFTS

[Njaco]

Wow, Cosimo. You brought memories of my dad. That is the quote I had printed for the funeral cards for my Dad a few years ago. Out of a few hundred that the Funeral Director asked me to choose from, that was the best. Fit him perfectly.