US Navy Blue Angels to fly over Houston today 5-6-20 at ~ 12:30 p.m. to salute the Covid-19 responders.
US Navy Blue Angels to fly over Houston today 5-6-20 at ~ 12:30 p.m.
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High Flight
By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
"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.
Hovering 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 even 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."
"In August or September 1941, Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. composed High Flight and sent a copy to his parents. Several months later, on December 11, 1941 his Spitfire collided with another plane over England and Magee, only 19 years of age, crashed to his death."
Formation flying and landing on the ship were the most challenging and fun things that I learned as a Naval Aviator. Cockpit videos from the "Blues" and Thunderbirds during the DC area fly-overs demonstrated the skills needed to fly formation from the pilots frame of reference. You are either in the correct position or correcting back to it. In the videos you could easily see how the aircraft were continually moving up and down; back and forth or in and out.
Thank you Blue Angles and Thunderbirds.
Go Navy
By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
"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.
Hovering 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 even 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."
"In August or September 1941, Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. composed High Flight and sent a copy to his parents. Several months later, on December 11, 1941 his Spitfire collided with another plane over England and Magee, only 19 years of age, crashed to his death."
Formation flying and landing on the ship were the most challenging and fun things that I learned as a Naval Aviator. Cockpit videos from the "Blues" and Thunderbirds during the DC area fly-overs demonstrated the skills needed to fly formation from the pilots frame of reference. You are either in the correct position or correcting back to it. In the videos you could easily see how the aircraft were continually moving up and down; back and forth or in and out.
Thank you Blue Angles and Thunderbirds.
Go Navy
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