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At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the royal canadian air force trained as a pilot and was sent to england to fly a supermarine spitfire with the 412 fighter squadron.
It is the official poem of the royal canadian air force and the royal air force and has to be recited from memory by fourth class cadets at the united states air force academy where it can be seen on display in the cadet field house.
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.
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I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings.
After a high altitude test flight one day john wrote his parents a letter and enclosed a poem this one that test flight inspired.
High flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts.
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A sonnet written by john gillespie magee an american pilot with the royal canadian air force in the second world war.
He came to britain flew in a spitfire squadron and was killed at the age of nineteen on 11 december 1941 during a training flight from the airfield near scopwick.
High flight by john gillespie magee jr.
For a pilot these feelings about flying are woven into the fabric of his soul.
He d scribbled it on the back of a letter written home to his parents.
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