[Sans-Culotte]

I think the author is a tad too hard on the use of "High Flight". The poem was written by a young RAF pilot during WW2. As the pilot was (obviously) alive when he wrote it, it was really an attempt to describe the exhilaration of flight. It is usually quoted when remembering someone who loved aviation.

Ironically, the pilot who wrote the poem died in a mid-air collision with a fellow RAF pilot.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I think the author is a tad too hard on the use of “High Flight”. The poem was written by a young RAF pilot during WW2. ***

Whe I was at Beale AFB in 1968 that poem was on the wall of the operations center. Another verse had been added in which God speaks of man’s arrogance with flight.