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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 13:54:25 -0500
From: "David B. Hill" <davidbhill@mediaone.net>
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When I lived in Montgomery, AL (1963-1968), they closed with High Flight
and had film that included an F-104 dancing "the skies on
laughter-silvered wings."
-- 
David Hill, Atlanta, GA, USA
david@hillfamily.org
http://www.hillfamily.org

Mike Regish wrote:
> 
> The aircraft shown was a jet fighter, so I don't think it was any of those.
> 
> --
> Mike Regish
> nospammregish@mediaone.net
> Charles K. Scott wrote in message <799q06$euv$3@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>...
> >In article <tBDt2.5918$Wm.6942105@brnws01.ne.mediaone.net>
> >"Mike Regish" <mregish@mediaone.net> writes:
> >
> >> Nice interpretation. ;-)
> >>
> >> They used to show a fighter (don't remember what kind) and read that
> (High Flight) poem at
> >> the close of the broadcast day of a local network affiliate when I was a
> >> kid.
> >
> >It should have been a Spitfire, a Mk 1 or Mk 5 since that's what the
> >author was flying.  He was an American flying for the British during or
> >just prior to the Battle of Britain.  He was killed in a collision with
> >a squadron mate in a cloud, shortly after writing that poem.
> >
> >Corky Scott
