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. Hov'ring 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 windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untresspassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God. --John Gillespie Magee
http://www.usafa.af.mil/superintendent/pa/highflight.htm http://www.edugraphics.net/gt2-aviation/gt210-hf.htm
It's been awhile... maybe too long 'cause I can't remember it. I faintly remember the AFN sign off while I was in Holland during the '80s.
Okay, I found this (pages load really slow); http://www.highflightproductions.com/Page.asp "I have recently put together a DVD compilation of HIGH FLIGHT usages (including the 1960s USAF television sign-off piece!). My biography/documentary project is an independant production - you can help support it by going to" http://www.highflightproductions.com/HighFlightShop.html
