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By the way, the wording in the penultimate line of the poem is definitely 'untresspassed.' I have a copy of High Flight in Pilot Officer McGee's handwriting which I recieved from a squadron member whose wife is the daughter of John Gillespie McGee's squadron commander. I am a retired Squadron Leader, an ex F-86 pilot who flew in Europe with the RCAF during the Cold War in the middle 1950s. I work across townДЇrom you at KUHF Radio, the NPR affiliate at the University of Houston. If you have that recording, I would give my right arm to have a tape copy ofД«y the way, if you're still at Rice U, we're neighbors.

Remember we did that concert outdoors at the hospital. That day, and to my everlasting regret I can't remember his name. We had a very good tenor soloist who did the solo work The VA hospital in Biloxi, and I believe it was recorded. The first public performance was at a Memorial Day event at I remember he also had the lady who did the choral arrangement there to see Gene Deweese introducing us to that arrangement Keesler Chorus from October of 1961 through August of 1962, and I distinctly High Flight? I think your date is a little off, because I was in the You say you have an early 1961 recording of the Keesler Male Chorus singing The poem describes well the heady excitement/terror that those times must have given to those who flew in combat and the exultation that the possibility of a noble death could result at any instant. The world may not be that great for many now but it would have been even worse had there been no Spitfires. For those who really know history, they know that, had it not been for the Spitfires and the incredibly brave men who flew them, Hitler would have conquered Britain and it is likely that the light of the world would have gone out. I think most people in the UK think the last sentence was original.Дifferent peoples make different connections. I do not remember ever seeing in UK newspaper or television any reference to the poem in connection with Reagan's speech. I immediately recognised Reagan's Challenger words. I was in the museum in Bamburgh Castle in England two days ago where they have dedicated part of it to wrecks of planes salvaged from the North Sea and I saw this poem for the first time. Intelligence for long enough to get money from it. This was a welcomeДЎ06D, Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Hyderabad 500038, India.ДЄdvertising (n): the science of arresting the human > another British fighter pilot, Richard Hillary, called 'The Last > snatches of this somewhere long back in a classic autobiography by > Spitfire (ooh, what a plane!!), when I came across this. > I was actually surfing the net looking for stuff on the Supermarine On 28 Nov 99, at 13:32, thus spake Martin Julian DeMello: Ps - I don't blame RD - that's one of my favorite poems as well. (that article has been rerun / rewritten at least three times since It got quoted in toto in Readers Digest, and repeated several times Schoolteacher who died in the Challenger disaster. This was the favorite poem of Sharon Christa McAuliffe - that His remains are buried in the churchyard cemetery at Scopwick, Lincolnshire Spitfire collided with another plane over England and Magee, only 19 years In August or September 1941, Pilot Officer Magee composed High Flight and Sent to England for combat duty in July 1941. September 1940 he enlisted in the RCAF and was graduated as a pilot. in 1939 and earned a scholarship to Yale, but in John Gillespie Magee his father wasДЄn American and his mother was originally a British citizen. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1922, the son of Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., was an American serving with the What does it make me feel like? Like I want to fly a SPITFIRE!!!!! It stands on its own like Chidiock Tichbourne.

I don't want to compare this to anything I've read before - I believe I don't want to go into Aeolian cadences an' lilting music an' meter an'ДЄll. Pilot, Richard Hillary, called 'The Last Enemy'.

Somewhere long back in a classic autobiography by another British fighter (ooh, what a plane!!), when I came across this. I was actually surfing the net looking for stuff on the Supermarine Spitfire Put out my hand and touched the face of God. I've topped the windswept heights with easy graceДЄnd, while with silent lifting mind I've trod My eager craft through footless halls of air. I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth ( Poem #276) High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earthДЄnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings

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