:-)
Most of the time you see High Flight, framed and on a wall, it is from a USAF
exchange officer who has left it as a parting gift. I hadn’t heard of the poem
until I visited a USAF F15 squadron at Bitburg in Germany.
When we visited the Air Forces Memorial at Runymede
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Forces_Memorial> (some years ago) I’m
pretty sure that I saw Magee’s name there, although he has a grave in
Lincolnshire, it appears.
Chris
> On 28 Aug 16, at 16:31, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I remember that. I see that I liked it at the time.
>
> Did all RAF trainee pilots have to memorize High Flight?
>
> I never got to drive anything more complex than a duce-and-a-half, a 2.5
> ton truck. Barrel rolls were a bitch!
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